Tillamook County Master Gardener Association
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Learning Garden is Open
Visit us During the Home & Garden Show Master Gardeners and the 2024 class of Apprentices have been cleaning, pruning, weeding, planting and generally sprucing up the garden in preparation for Spring (if it ever gets here…) and will be…
Read MoreTree List for Climate Change
~ by Neal Lemery Here is a list of suitable trees for our north Oregon coastal climate, given that our climate is changing, growing warmer, and often drier. This list comes from a lecture, “Coastal Trees for a Changing Climate”…
Read MoreWorking in the Shade Garden
~ by Neal Lemery There’s a duality in my mind when I’m out in the garden. Part of me is the scientist, the “educated” gardener who is looking for situations and problems that call for analysis, for organization and problem…
Read MoreShould I …?
Recall all those times you admonished yourself with ‘I should have…, I would have…, I could have…’ (aka the should-a, would-a, and could-a’s). If you ever applied one of those ‘should-a’s to planting a garden, below is just the flow…
Read MoreFinding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, by Suzanne Simard (2021) Part of the master gardener’s experience is a heightened awakening to the complexities of relationships in the plant world, and how we can explore that and broaden our own relationship…
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