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Category Archives: Native Plants
Plant List for Pollinator Gardens
Over the past year, I have have given many presentations that highlighted the high bee activity at ‘site 51’; a garden that is fairly small (0.1 acre) and in … Continue reading
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Garden Ecology Lab News, January 2018
It’s been a busy month in the Garden Ecology Lab. Gail’s manuscript on bees in home and community gardens has been published in Acta Hort. Briefly, the results of this literature review are that: 213 species of bee have been collected … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden Pollinator, garden soils, Native Plants, Portland, research, soil sampling, soil test, urban soils
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Plant of the Week: California Poppy
This entry is from Lucas Costner, an undergraduate horticulture major at Oregon State University. It highlights one of the plants that Aaron Anderson is using in his research. Having moved to Oregon from Michigan this past spring, one of my first … Continue reading
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Plant of the Week: Douglas Aster
This entry is from Lucas Costner, an undergraduate horticulture major at Oregon State University. It highlights one of the plants that Aaron Anderson is using in his research. A common and much-beloved Northwest native, the Douglas aster, happens to be a … Continue reading
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Research Update: Studying Willamette Valley’s Native Plants
The post below comes from Aaron Anderson, a M.S. student in the OSU Department of Horticulture, and a member of the Garden Ecology Lab. ************************************* This past summer, we conducted the first field season of a study screening native plants … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden Pollinator, Native Plants, research
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Plant of the Week: Farewell-to-Spring
This entry is from Lucas Costner, an undergraduate horticulture major at Oregon State University. It highlights one of the plants that Aaron Anderson is using in his research. Clarkia amoena or, as it is commonly known, farewell-to-spring, is a personal favorite … Continue reading
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Plant of the Week: Western Pearly Everlasting
Now that our lab group is working on native plants and native bees, I thought it would be fun to do a ‘Plant of the Week’ and ‘Bee of the Week’ series. This entry is from Lucas Costner, an undergraduate horticulture … Continue reading
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Plant of the Week: Canada Goldenrod
Now that our lab group is working on native plants and native bees, I thought it would be fun to do a ‘Plant of the Week’ and ‘Bee of the Week’ series. This entry is from Lucas Costner, an undergraduate horticulture … Continue reading
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#OverlyHonestMethods
#OverlyHonestMethods is a hashtag that is trending on Twitter. With this hashtag (which is simply an easy way to sort and find posts), scientists share the honest, ugly truth behind research. Some examples: “Data was not recorded on Sundays because … Continue reading
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Tagged #overlyhonestmethods, ecology research
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Plant of the Week: Showy Milkweed
Now that our lab group is working on native plants and native bees, I thought it would be fun to do a ‘Plant of the Week’ and ‘Bee of the Week’ series. This second entry is from Lucas Costner, an undergraduate … Continue reading
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Tagged garden ecology, Native Plants, research
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