Welcome to our gardening adventure. Let’s grow it together! The meaning of salal (Gaultheria shallon) – “Walk the beauty way, that enlivens experiencing beauty, presence and equanimity, which enhances ...

Salal and Oregon grape are two of the most common and recognizable understory plants in our Northwest forests, often living side by side in dense thickets. Yet their culinary charms remain hidden, in ...

Including blueberries in the backyard landscape provides visual interest year round and invites hummingbirds to visit and rest awhile. (Marci Degman/Special to the Argus) A popular practice for many ...

If people thought of forests as pantries, then the undervalued salal berry might get more love. You've seen the shiny-leafed shrubs before—they're ubiquitous from British Columbia to Southern Oregon.

In my last column, I divulged my passion for wild-food foraging and shared a recipe for a nettles pesto. I am continuing the theme in this editorial because the outdoors are bursting with life. And ...

Salal is native to North America and grows fairly easily in the northwest. It's valued both as a ground cover and in its shrub form for its color, flowers and edible berries. (Marci Degman/Special to ...

Know what these are? I didn't either, at least until last week. They are salal berries, gaultheria shallon. And I would have walked right past them had I not heard them calling my name. Not ...