One of the pleasures of the garden is its capacity to provide a substantial illusion. Gardens can transport you from a city street to a foreign region in the time it takes to walk through the house.

There comes a time in the life of a landscape when normal seasonal care won't do. Plants no longer fit together, and some may have reached the ends of their life span.

There's nothing like the sound of running water to add a sense of peace to your surroundings. But you don't have to hike to a waterfall or take a vacation to enjoy the benefits of whispering waters.

Kip Grant lives in an older, run-down section of Medford that features several condemned houses. Her apartment complex had not one blade of grass, only blacktop and a few dusty hedges.

Basic Gardening: Use fallen leaves to protect beds against compaction from winter rain. Shred or use a lawn mower to chop leaves. Remove before growing season and add to compost heap or bin.

When they moved to the Rogue Valley two years ago, Carolyn Wolf and Mike Fowell were the lucky recipients of a fully planted ornamental garden "» or were they?

Gardeners in need of a little inspiration can get it Sunday, when the Medford chapter of American Association of University Women holds its first-ever garden tour.

CORVALLIS — Pumpkins and other winter squash can grow like weeds, and as they trail out between raised beds and down rows of corn, gardeners often ask how and where to store them all.

MEDFORD — The Siskiyou Koi & Pond Club presents a tour of seven Medford-area homes, including tours of gardens and one railroad garden, which features a model train looping around ponds and...

CORVALLIS — Autumn is the time for simple garden math: dividing and multiplying. Dividing perennials invigorates overcrowded plants, and it's an inexpensive way to multiply landscape plantings.

While most of us trundle off to the grocery store or corner pub when we're looking for a beer, a growing number of Rogue Valley residents are sipping homebrew — with hops grown in their own...

People hook fish, right? But with koi, it's the opposite.

There's never been a better time to go native with your garden.

Like Goldilocks, Gary and Debra Ekstrom had to try out a few living situations before they felt settled in Jacksonville: The Applegate farm was much too big; the Nunan Square property too small.

CORVALLIS — If you sow seeds in August or early September, you can enjoy salad greens throughout the fall and even during the winter.

Tony and Joy Dobson Way moved to Ashland in 2007 with two goals for the new home they sought: a view and a pool.

Hot and spicy or meek and mild — all types of peppers have their fans. This month Rogue Valley peppers start to mature.