Q:Now that you've ventured into a discussion of rats and lemons, how about gophers and euphorbias? I have an ongoing gopher problem and decided to replace some vanished/eaten plants with euphorbia, ...

Q: I found fuzzy things on my oak leaves. What are they and should I be concerned? A: These are plant galls — swellings of plant tissue on the roots, stems, trunk, leaves and flowers. Galls can be ...

Q: I moved from the Bay Area to the coast of Oregon. The weather patterns are similar, though a bit cooler and rainier, so your plant guides work well here. I still visit my mother in the Bay Area, ...

Handout via Tribune News ServiceThis garden adjacent to open grazing pasture will experience gophers unless they are discouraged from entering. Perhaps it’s lack of summer rain on top of prolonged ...

Q I hope you can give us some suggestions as to what is best to plant on a hillside in poor soil and is not liked by gophers. Red apple iceplant (Aptenia hybrid) seems to do well but is eventually ...

We lost one of the tomato plants recently. After one of those hard rains, the leaves started to wither and the plant sort of just started to collapse. I hoped it was just a case of too much water, but ...

Millie highlights a tough, sculptural plant that she loves to grow in her cool-climate garden. It’s Gopher spurge (Euphorbia rigida), which tolerates a really hot spot in the garden as well as partly ...

Gopher Plant (Euphorbia rigida) is an import from the Mediterranean and southwest Asia. Its Latin name tells us a bit about its heritage. King Juba II of Numidia, later Mauritania, named the plant ...

Reading gardening blogs from Texas is one way to make this New England spring feel a little less bleak. Poking around the blog of Austin-based gardener Pam Penick, Digging, is a guaranteed respite, ...

National Civil Rights attorney Ben Crump announced today in Tampa that a lawsuit will be filed against the East Tampa lead smelting plant, Gopher Resource. “Make no mistake about it, what we are here ...

Two years ago, when the federal Environmental Protection Agency changed its standards for airborne lead pollution, Eagan-based Gopher Resources knew it would have to make some changes. The company ...