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Keep recent plantings well-watered and mulched. Sudden warming plus drying winds can stress plants. Tasks Use a 3-inch layer of mulch around trees and shrubs to retain moisture, suppress weeds and cool soil temperature.

A colorful perennial has been brightening spring gardens for many weeks. Azaleas are the easy-to-care-for stars of semi-shaded locations. The most common varieties are evergreen azaleas, which are more accurately described as having persistent-leaves.

It's May and spring is busting out all over! After months of gray skies and wet, chilly days, we can rejoice at the sight of each tender shoot, leaf and bud. With the resurgence of life all around us, it may seem as if the state of the natural world may not be so bad after all.

Don't miss the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar by Clement Chow on Monday, May 6. It will open your eyes about fruit flies, rare diseases, and the progress underway.

Silverleaf nightshade, Solanum Elaeagnifolium, is perennial weed that is native to South America, Mexico, American Southwest and Southern States.

Happy May! This is a busy month for communications with UC ANR Giving Day taking place May 16-17, from noon to noon. UC ANR Giving Day is a wonderful opportunity to raise money and support for your program and projects. Do you want to build a new demo garden? Want to fund scholarships for new trainees? Maybe…

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A system of permanently flooded rice and a lack of diverse weed management techniques have selected for flood-tolerant weed populations in California water-seeded rice fields.

My mother bought me the cutest pink flowering plant in a little 2-inch bunny planter for Easter. She told me that she thought it was the prettiest Kalanchoe that she had ever seen. It was adorable, and just bursting with flowers. I was a little puzzled though.

My mother, in all her wisdom, once sent me a wooden garden stake that said, I tried but it died, when I take somewhat drastic measures to try to save something in the garden, I always bear that in mind.