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Garden and plants

Spring Showcase: Jane Weber Evergreen Arboretum hosts spring open house

April 26, 2025, 6:10am Clark County Life

The Jane Weber Evergreen Arboretum, the horticultural gem covering 8 acres from Evergreen Highway to the Columbia River, will host a spring open house on May 3. Visitors can enjoy… Read story

Pick up plenty of plants for your garden at 14 plant sales across Clark County

April 26, 2025, 6:10am Clark County Life

If you want plants, Clark County’s got plants. These 14 local plant sales, helpfully arranged in chronological order, will keep you busy buying and planting until June. Read story

Hannah Matson 4, from Brush Prairie gets a face full of lilac at the Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens on May 6, 2007.
Debbie Kogan of Portland takes in the beauty at Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens while soaking up the sunshine on April 19, 2024.

Spring in your step: These five gardens will give you petal power

Debbie Kogan of Portland takes in the beauty at Hulda Klager Lilac Gardens while soaking up the sunshine on April 19, 2024.

April 12, 2025, 6:06am Clark County Life

As springtime gets going, temperatures are warming up (at least slightly) and flowers are fixing to bust out all over. You may or may not feel the sun on your face when visiting these local gardens but you will definitely feel it in your soul: the return of light and… Read story

2025 is the Year of the Snake.
Library employee Lyn Milner fills packages with sunflower seeds Dec. 19 at the Washougal Community Library.

Planting a seed: FVRLibraries and Vancouver Bee Project seed libraries growing in popularity

Library employee Lyn Milner fills packages with sunflower seeds Dec. 19 at the Washougal Community Library.

December 27, 2024, 6:07am Clark County Life

Books and movies aren’t the only things you can check out from FVRLibraries. Several branches now offer a seed library, where residents can get seeds for a variety of plants and flowers at no cost. Read story

Maestro Salvador Brotons, facing, leads the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra during a concert at Skyview High School  (The Columbian files)
The community is invited to attend Clark College’s annual Educating for the Seventh Generation Powwow from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday in the Gaiser Student Center, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver.
Volunteer Madison Glenn lends a hand in the kitchen at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Cooking it old school: Fort Vancouver kitchen gives a lesson in 1840s kitchens

Volunteer Madison Glenn lends a hand in the kitchen at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

October 12, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life

I could smell woodsmoke from Fort Vancouver’s kitchen as soon as I got out of my car in the Fifth Street visitor lot. The aroma led me to the weathered wood building behind the reconstructed Chief Factor’s House, where John McLoughlin and his family would have lived in the fort’s… Read story

A female common merganser is seen in the Burke Slough near Woodland during a recent Saturday morning birding trip with the Vancouver Audubon Society.