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Oregon State Master Gardeners Survey

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Garden Future is a statewide project of the OSU Extension Master Gardener Program. We’re gathering stories, ideas, and local wisdom from gardeners like you—and sharing them back as practical tips, inspiring examples, and resources to help your garden thrive, no matter the weather.

By joining the conversation, you’ll:

  • Discover how other gardeners across Oregon are adapting to changing climates.
  • Learn proven practices for gardening in extreme weather.
  • Help shape future resources for your community.

Across Oregon, gardeners are seeing the seasons shift—hotter summers, wetter winters, unpredictable frosts. Together, we can adapt.Garden Future connects gardeners to share what’s working, learn from each other, and grow resilience in a changing climate.

Take Master Gardeners 3-question survey to tell Oregon State University Extension Services:

  1. What changes you’ve noticed in your garden.
  2. What changes you’ve made.
  3. What you’d like help learning.

SURVEY LINK https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bvBkua43yiW6ZOC

Your answers shape statewide resources and connect you with other gardeners’ solutions. Share your garden story!

OSU: Principles of Pruning

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Oregon State University: Principles of Pruning Videos

Pruning Pros  – In these clips, tree care pros with decades of experience will guide the viewer through the decision-making process—and solutions—to pruning larger, established trees.

Pruning Basics for Trees and Shrubs
Learn proper pruning technique, best timing, and which tools to use for landscape trees, conifers, and shrubs.

Get information about pruning fruit trees in this OSU Master Gardener 10-Minute University™ Class presented by OSU Master Gardener Sherry Sheng.

Pruning fruit trees
by 10-Minute University/OSU Master Gardeners

Pruning or training fruit trees
by 10-Minute University/OSU Master Gardeners

Rose Care

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Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses booklet, by the OSU Extension Services, discusses the most common problems with roses: black spot, rust, powdery mildew, and aphids and the conditions that favor infection. It offers preventative measures and suggestions on how to control rose diseases and pests.
Read it here… Controlling Diseases and Aphids on Your Roses.

Rosaceae Hulthemia: Raspberry Kiss

Oregon Snakes

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One of many nice qualities about living in Oregon, is its non-poisonous snakes, well all but one!

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Western Rattlesnake –   Photo By Gary Stolz, U.S. Fish & Wildlife/Wikimedia

Snakes are beneficial to gardeners, they eat mice, voles, rats, slugs, Japanese beetle grubs and other gardening pests.  Only one snake species in Oregon can harm humans, and that is the venomous Western Rattlesnake.

The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW) reported,  “there are two sub-species of the Western Rattlesnake in Oregon, the Northern Pacific subspecies, found in southwestern Oregon, in the middle and southern Willamette Valley, as well as the Columbia Plateau. The Great Basin subspecies is found in Oregon’s south central areas and the southeastern region. ”

ODFW says Gopher Snakes (Pituophis catenifer) are often mistaken for Rattlesnakes, because Gopher Snakes shake their tail, hiss and strike out with their head, but Gopher Snakes are not venomous, nor do they have rattles on their tails.  Other snakes in Oregon are also harmless to humans and they are beneficial to the environment, too.

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Gopher snake – Photo by Julia Larson/Wikimedia

Oregon snakes:

  • Gopher Snake (Pituophis catenifer)
  • Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis)
  • California Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata)
  • Common Kingsnake (Lampropeltis getula)
  • Northwestern Garter snake (Thamnophis ordinoides)
  • Pacific Coast Aquatic Garter snake (Thamnophis atratus)
  • Common Garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis)
  • Racer snake (Coluber constrictor)
  • Western Terrestrial Garter snake (Thamnophis elegans)
  • Ground snake (Sonora semiannulata)
  • Striped whipsnake (Coluber taeniatus)
  • Sharp-tailed snake (Contia tenuis)
  • Ring-necked snake (Diadophis punctatus)
  • Night snake (Hypsiglena chlorophaea)
  • Rubber Boa (Charina bottae)

 

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Rubber Boa – photo by USDA Forest Service

To learn more about Oregon’s snakes, click on the links below:

http://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/snakes-slither-through-garden-eating-slugs-grubs-and-other-pests

http://www.oregonlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/06/meet_the_snakes_of_oregon.html

Download Oregon’s Fish & Wildlife Brochure … Oregon_Living With Snakes pdf

 

By: Carlotta Lucas