From our friends at OSU Extension comes this timely and informative missive about Scotch broom -- that pretty but obnoxiously persistent shrub. Check it out. Although admired for its yellow blooms, ...
Who would think this soft landscape, with its undulating blue waves of wildflowers, flitting butterflies and calls of meadowlark, could be the scene of such battle. But war it was, to win back, acre ...
"It's getting to be that time of year again when my wife and kids will not be able to travel the freeways without runny noses, watery eyes and (being) just plain sick," he wrote us. "I know they are ...
A. Many people are attracted to the bright yellow spring flowers of sweet broom, or scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius). This shrub can be short-lived in our heat, but if it adapts, it will mature to 5-8 ...
To many passers-by, it’s a bright yellow flowery masterpiece this time of year. But don’t let the brilliant color along roadsides and hillsides fool you: Scotch broom is a sinister weed — legally ...
PORT ANGELES — Photographs of the beautiful but deadly scotch broom have won prizes in the Clallam County Noxious Weed Control Board’s first photography contest. The “Show Us Your Weeds Photo Contest” ...
AT THE CONFLUENCE OF ELK CREEK AND THE HOH RIVER, JEFFERSON COUNTY — Jill Silver pushes through a wall of yellow towering overhead. Undaunted, Silver, a watershed ecologist, shoves the branches of ...
The rows of bright yellow scotch broom near Kelso airport may be thriving now, but Cowlitz County unleashed a tiny, yet effective, secret weapon Thursday morning: 200 Bruchidius villosus beetles. Each ...
REEDSPORT -- The plant may not have any super powers like Marvel Comics's Green Goblin, but for now Scotch broom remains a nemesis of landowners on the Oregon coast. With this in mind, Highland ...
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Erin Ayriss was on her way to work Wednesday afternoon when she came upon a group of island old-timers waving yellow-flowered Scotch broom branches and cheering on a game of ...
In 1850, Scottish Army Capt. Walter Colquhoun Grant planted a European perennial shrub on his farm on T’Sou-ke Nation’s traditional territory (Sooke). He thought the shrub — Cytisus scorparius in ...
AT THE CONFLUENCE OF ELK CREEK AND THE HOH RIVER, JEFFERSON COUNTY — Jill Silver pushes through a wall of yellow towering overhead. Undaunted, Silver, a watershed ecologist, shoves the branches of ...