Cover photo: Garden Ecology Lab PhD student Taylor Janecek (left) and undergraduate Reed Manderfield (right) collect data in Common Ground Garden for Janecek’s PhD project. Photo credit: Sara Van […]

THE ROOTS OF RESEARCH The Dedicated Community Members Who Make The Garden Ecology Lab’s Work Possible by Anna Janowski PART 1: AMY CAMPION From publishing educational materials to heading the […]

I’m Chronos Sevy, a freshman undergraduate student at Oregon State. Working at the Garden Ecology lab is my first foray into working with insects in a professional capacity, and I couldn’t be […]

NOTE: Prunella vulgaris ssp. lanceolata is native to the Pacific Northwest (and much of the rest of the U.S.), unlike the straight vulgaris, which is Eurasian. This week, we will be featuring common […]

In this plant of the week, we are highlighting the Western columbine, or Aquilegia formosa. This perennial flower is native to the western part of North America, with occurrences in the western […]

I was saddened to learn that Dr. Jean Natter recently passed away. Her obituary details a remarkable life of learning, love of science, and service. I came to know Jean through my work with the […]

This Plant of the Week entry is written by Reed Manderfield, an undergraduate research and lab assistant studying Environmental Science at Oregon State University with a concentration in Applied […]

This entry in our “Plant of the Week” series is written by Georgia Vatcoskay, an undergraduate research assistant and Botany and Plant Pathology student at Oregon State University. Purple […]

As Gail discussed in her blog post Plastic Pollution in the Garden, plastics have become ubiquitous in gardens. While there is still much to be learned in terms of how plastic contamination impacts […]

This article was originally written for and published in the HPSO Quarterly Magazine, and was greatly improved by the suggestions of the HPSO editorial team. In a follow up post, M.S. student Anna […]