Under the Solano Sun

Blog by Diana McLaughlin Bennett Where are you hiding your Fairy Garden?When my granddaughter was five years old, she came to spend the summer with me. We lived on the beach, so we would go in search of beach glass and sand dollars every day. She loved walking in the shallow water and yelping when a…

Blog by Michelle DavisI have long associated different flowers, flowering shrubs, and flowering trees with different seasons of the year and holidays, i.e., marigolds with Halloween, chrysanthemums with Thanksgiving, Bermuda lilies with Easter.  As I was making my yearly pilgrimage to the CPA in…

Article by Ann ShortWhat’s not to love about winter in a California Mediterranean Garden? It is quite something.The weather cools.Leaves are bagged and saved for compost. Trees let in more light without their canopy. The vegetable garden is mostly dormant and cleaned up, and bulbs planted. Now, we wait for…

Blog by Brenda AltmanClimate change is real.  Every year, my pluot (plum apricot) tree starts flowering earlier and earlier. Here it is flowering in the second week of February!Luther Burbank pioneered the development of hybrid plums and apricots. In the late 19th century, crossing an apricot and a plum…

Blog by Lauren MenaYou’ve just bought a tree at a nursery, brought it to its new location and are ready to plant. Maybe you’re fairly new to planting trees and are pleased to see that the tree came with a free stake. You figure the nursery must know what they’re doing, so you go ahead and plant it, with the…