Horsetail (Equisetum spp.) is one of the easiest water plants to grow—and one of the hardest to contain. It tolerates a wide range of soils and even thrives in standing water. This plant has survived ...

I LOVE IT here on the Peninsula, gardening heaven, but our gardening Nirvana has also been shattered by the omnipresent horsetail. I get this question all the time and my answer is always the same.

You may think it’s a kind of bamboo at first. Like bamboo, rough horsetail is hollow and segmented. But unlike bamboo, which is in the grass family, rough horsetail is part of an ancient group of ...

Throughout the maritime Northwest, one of the most dreaded weeds is the scouring rush or horsetail. Our lovely region has been home to quite a few species of Equisetum for millenniums. This plant has ...