Japanese Maple 
@Mill Pond 
Japanese Maple 
Flowering Cherry 
Raywood Ash & Maple 
Sunset Maple 
@Lithia Park – Japanese Garden
Photos by AGC Members :
Barbara Bauer, Carlotta Lucas, Linda Thomas, Viki Ashford, Donna Rhee,
Tag Archives: Ashland Garden Club
Just say NO to Fall Clean Up
While diseased plants and leaves should be removed from your 
flowerbeds, leaving plant debris, seed heads, plant stalks, and leaf litter provides much needed winter shelters and food for beneficial insects and birds.
Forging urban birds like juncos, sparrows and chickadees need your plant’s seeds for food, and beneficial insects, like butterflies and moths, winter over on flower and ornamental grass stalks. So, by cutting and cleaning out flowerbed debris you are doing more harm than good by disrupting your garden’s natural habitat.
Rethink fall clean up, resist the urge to remove all the debris, keep it until spring because the wildlife depends on it! It also provides mulch to protect plants during cold weather.
Carlotta Lucas, AGC Member
Photo by: Carlotta Lucas – Caterpillar on Salvia Stalk (10/22/2020)
Oregon Native Plant: Salmonberry
Plant Name: Rubus spectabilis
Common name: Salmonberry
Plant Type: Deciduous Shrub
Plant Height: 3’ – 10’
Spread: 3’ – 6’
Bloom Time: March – June; Fruit June to August.
Flower Color: Red or Rose; Fruit Color is Yellow, Orange, or Red
Exposure: Sun or Shade
Soil Requirements: Tolerant of Sandy or Clay Soil with Various Soil Drainage.
Water Needs: Moderate to High
Attributes: Nectar for Bees, Butterflies, Other Insect, Hummingbirds; Deer Resistant.
Note: Biennial Stems: The 1st year only leaves; 2nd year develop lateral shoots which bear fruit.
Uses: Thickets for Birds; Bank Stabilization from Deep Rhizomatous Root Growth.
Native to: Western North America
Oregon Native: YES
USDA Hardiness Zone: 5 – 9
Report by: Viki Ashford, AGC Member, Master Gardener
Berry with leaf – Photo by: Margalob / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)
Flower – Photo by :Walter Siegmund / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis)
Plant Name: Sanguinaria canadensis
Common name: Bloodroot
Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial
Plant Height: 6” – 9”
Plant Width: 3” – 6”
Bloom Time: March to April
Flower Color: White Flower with Yellow Stamens.
Exposure: Part Shade to Full Shade
Soil Requirements: Moist, Humusy, Well-Drained.
Water Needs: Medium
Attributes: Showy Flower, but Short Lived, & Close at Night; Tolerates Drought & Dry Soil; Early Spring Bee & Fly Pollinator.
Note: Goes Dormant in Mid to Late Summer; All Parts of Plant Exude Orange-Red Sap when Cut; Poisonous Characteristics.
Uses: Naturalize; Rock & Wildflower Gardens.
Native to: Eastern & Central North America
Oregon Native: NO
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 – 8
Report by: Viki Ashford AGC Member, Master Gardener
Photo from: UpstateNYer / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Oregon Native: Rough Fruit Berry
Plant Name: Rubus lasiococcus
Common name: Rough Fruit Berry, Dwarf Bramble
Plant Type: Perennial Subshrub/Groundcover
Plant Height: Few Inches
Spread: Small Vine
Bloom Time: June to August
Flower Color: White; small red fruit
Exposure: Sun
Water Needs: Moist
Attributes: Attracts Bumble & Native Bees; Hummingbirds, & Moths
HOST for: White-lined sphinx, Alfalfa Looper Moth, Elegant Sheep Moth, Red-humped Caterpillar, Lappet Moth, Fingered Dagger Moth, Lunate Zale Moth.
Note: Trailing Vine, Thornless, Freely Rooting.
Uses: Fruit
Native to: British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California
Oregon Native: YES
USDA Hardiness Zone: 4-7
Report by: Viki Ashford, AGC member & Master Gardener and Carlotta Lucas, AGC Member
Photo by: Walter Siegmund / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
Oregon Native: Red Elderberry
Plant Name: Sambucus racemosa
Common name: Red Elderberry
Plant Type: Deciduous Shrub or Small Tree
Plant Height: 10’ – 20’
Width: 8′-10′
Bloom Time: April – July
Flower Color: Creamy White Flowers Followed by Bright Red Berries.
Exposure: Sun to Part Shade
Soil Requirements: Moist, Well Draining Loamy, Silty, Nutrient Rich.
Water Needs: High Moisture
Attributes: Nectar for Hummingbirds; Fragrant Flowers; Attracts Butterflies; Deer Resistant.
Note: Susceptible to Viral Canker, Powdery Mildew, Leaf Spot, Cane Borers.
Uses: Soil Stabilization; Wildlife Garden; Hedge.
Native to: Most of North America
Oregon Native: YES
USDA Hardiness Zone: 3 – 7
” Warning: Red Elderberry Fruits are not edible when raw, but when cooked they make a good jam, pie, and wine.” (Oregon State University)
Report By: Viki Ashford, AGC member & Master Gardener
Photos from: Oregon State University https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/sambucus-nigra-subsp-cerulea