Yarrow is currently blooming around Summit County. Ian and Sylvia sing a song called “Awake, Awake You Drowsy Sleeper.” The last verse starts: “Down in yon valley there grows a green yarrow, I wish ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Many flowers benefit from the removal of spent blooms, but you might be wondering if you should deadhead yarrow, too. More of its colorful flowers would, after all, be a welcome sight in borders and ...

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a stunning plant thanks to its colorful blooms and fern-like leaves, and, even better, it's considered relatively easy to grow. Not only is it a joy to fill flower ...

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a hardworking plant that brings bees and butterflies to the yard. Growing and caring for yarrow is, frankly, pretty easy, which is why these umbrella-shaped flowers ...

The simplest definition of a weed is any plant growing where it's not wanted. But for years in gardening, that usually has included any wild plant growing alongside the cultivated varieties from the ...