This weekend, the OSU Extension Service is holding its 30th annual High Desert Garden Tour. For $15, you'll be given a map and driving directions to several different gardens in Central Oregon where ...

It's a vibrant high desert ecosystem thriving with life, from birds of prey to slithering rattlesnakes. When night falls, a brilliant tapestry of stars emerges from the darkness.

These are both examples of native plants in the Victor Valley that grow year-round and provide those of us who reside here with joys for our noses and eyes. As a high school biology teacher, I am ...

High Desert gardener Marie Esposito recommends keeping plants in the shade once the hot winds come. She also uses Fox Farm soil, which doesn't dry out as fast in the desert, she says.