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Preserving summer flowers, foliage, seed heads, and bracts is a delightfully simple way to accumulate a collection of colorful plant materials from your garden to enjoy throughout the year.

There is a lot of twisting turning flowering field bindweed Convolvulus arvensis in my garden right now. Driving past fields near my home a couple of days ago it looked like snow had fallen. Not snow, but Field Bindweed.

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During our June business meeting, followed by a fantastic social gathering at Our Garden, we celebrated the end of a stellar year with remarkable achievements by so many of our hard-working UC Master Gardener volunteers of Contra Costa County.

While some schools have well-established systems in place to manage their gardens during school breaks, others struggle to keep their plants alive and weeds at bay.

We're changing the name of the Membership project to Volunteer Support. This recognizes the many functions of this CoCoMG project. Volunteer Support directly affects every CoCoMG.

Clients question: We have an infestation of cockroaches in our garden. It started 3 or 4 years ago. We would see them on our neighbors sidewalk. Starting this year, they are making our garden their home. This is the worst we have seen in our garden.

The Contra Costa Community Garden team serves 14 very different community gardens and urban farms throughout the county.

My mom says: "Optimism is hard work." In April I planted little plants that I thought would do well in her scorched-earth Inland Empire summer garden bed, which is only about 25 square feet. I'm happy to say that I've provided her with an ongoing source of interest and even joy.