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In late January, the University of California Nursery and Floriculture Alliance co-hosted the 62nd Western Region International Plant Propagators' Society (WR-IPPS) Annual Meeting in Temecula.

Keep an eye out for this potential problem weed in southern California: Stipa capensis. First reported in 1995 in Riverside, this species is native to the Mediterranean and has established in the Coachella Valley of the Sonoran Desert.

The annual performance evaluation is an opportunity for staff and supervisors to recognize accomplishments, identify opportunities to build skills, and align individual efforts to high-level unit and division goals. The evaluation review period runs from April 1, 2023, through March 31, 2024.

Professor Louie Yang's monarch and milkweed research at the University of California, Davis, is quite celebrated.

The Office of Pesticide Information and Coordination has opened online registration for its annual UC ANR Pesticide Policy Update Trainings.

UCCE Small Farms Fresno hosted a very well attended grafting workshop at Kearney REC on Thursday, February 22nd. Attendees rotated through four stations and spent the day learning grafting techniques from local experts and UCCE specialists.

Create wildlife habitats in your Alameda County garden with tips on supporting birds, bees, and other beneficial creatures around your home landscape.

Create wildlife habitats in your Alameda County garden with tips on supporting birds, bees, and other beneficial creatures around your home landscape.

Create wildlife habitats in your Alameda County garden with tips on supporting birds, bees, and other beneficial creatures around your home landscape.

We had picture brought in by a grower on Friday of some fruit from his field showing clear signs of anthracnose. That is to say, dark, lens shaped lesions on the fruit.