Garden of the Month: Miriam Weissberg’s advice to other gardeners is to try different things and see what works best given the many factors in your garden. Also, to encourage maximum blooming, keep your plants well pruned.
Garden of the Month: After worldwide travels, Tim MacCurdy settled in Japan where, once again, his interest in plants and gardens was piqued. He has plants now that are descended through generations from seeds he collected in Japan.
Garden of the Month: Mary Kyman’s garden was on the AAUW Garden Tour in 2014 and it was gorgeous then, but she has made many changes and improvements since then.
Garden of the Month: There is an extraordinary garden at 891 Beswick Way, home of Scott Allison. Scott is a naturalist, forester, orchardist and apiarist. This is the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for June 2024.
Garden of the Month: John Schroeder and Debbie Beck have been gardening at the Laurel Street home since they purchased the property in the spring of 1983.
Garden of the Month: The use of yuccas along Mountain Avenue, part of the original design by Laurie Sager, provide a unifying theme and present a stunning sight when in full bloom each summer.
Garden of the Month: Elysian Graham and Lou Martinez bought the handsome house at 623 Prim St. in 2020 and promptly set about reimagining the front landscape. This is the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for September.
Ruth Sloan: Alicia and Jeffrey Welder had their welcoming house at 98 Westwood St. built in 2015. The lovely garden that surrounds it was initiated in stages on the bare earth after that, and is now the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for August.
Garden of the Month: Stone work, curved stairways, fruit trees, tulips, irises and rhododendrons grace July’s Ashland Garden of the Month on Holly Street.
Garden of the Month: The front yard at 59 Sixth Street delights all who see it. The home of Sarah and Dennis Jeske is the Ashland Garden Club’s Garden of the Month for June. The cheerful paint on the buildings, the art in the garden, the charming fence and gate, and the prolific flowers mix together to create an enchanting display.
A bright blue book locker outside the Ashland Family YMCA provides a new, more convenient way to check out materials from the library. The book locker can be accessed 24/7. Books are placed on hold through the library services website, which also has a video showing the book locker installation.
John Marciano and Leslie Dwyer: While hedge funds and rich corporate interests are buying up hospitals across the country and cutting services and staff to increase their profits, the well-being of hospital staff and patients is undermined.
KS Wild Side: With the help of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Wildlife Crossing Pilot Program, the state of Oregon will see its first wildlife overpass built in Ashland’s backyard. The proposed wildlife overpass is located roughly at mile marker 1.7 on Interstate 5, just north of the California border.
Editor’s note: Ashland.news reporter Morgan Rothborne covers city government, including its ongoing efforts to find ways to shape policies around homelessness. For better insight into the issue, Rothborne spent a night in early December in the shelter when it was operated by Jobs with Justice in Calvin Hall at First Presbyterian Church of Ashland.
An Ashland man was arrested after an ongoing investigation “into child exploitation and internet crimes against children” led to execution of a search warrant on Alida Street early Tuesday, according to a news release from the Ashland Police Department.
Reader Photo: Mary Piper took this photo of Emigrant Lake recently. As of Jan. 12, the lake was 39% full, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.
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