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Don't miss our Video Library! Environmental Horticulture Notes (EHN), below on this page, are publications written by University of California Cooperative Extension (UC) Master Gardeners. EHNs are reviewed by the Program Coordinator and a UCCE Advisor.
Fall visitors to our Fair Oaks Horticulture Center water-efficient landscape will find many hardy shrubs, blooming perennials and shimmering grasses that do well in the Sacramento area with less water while attracting bees, butterflies, birds and other beneficials.
Summer visitors to our Fair Oaks Horticulture Center water-efficient landscape will find many hardy shrubs, blooming perennials and shimmering grasses that do well in the Sacramento area with less water while attracting bees, butterflies, birds and other beneficials.
January | February | March | April | May | June July | August | September | October | November | December Harvest citrus Continue to monitor for and protect from frost (refer to protect sensitive plants and frost protection (PDF) for more information) Prune dormant fruit trees.
Home Horticulture Center Vegetables Straw Bale Gardening 2013 After reading Straw Bale Gardens (Joel Karsten, 2013, Cool Springs Press) in early 2013, the Master Gardeners who work in the vegetable demonstration garden at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center decided to try straw bale gardening as a...
If you have ever wanted to grow sweet potatoes but were unable to find rooted slips, it is because almost all mail order catalogs are unable to ship sweet potato plants to California due to quarantine of southern grown slips.
With blossoms, and the insects that pollinate them everywhere, spring is almost overload for the senses. Below is a list of a few of our favorite spring beauties. All of these plants can be found growing at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center.
Much of the garden is resting. Hibernating. Simplified. Winter is the time to appreciate and admire red and golden trunks, twigs, berries, and branches, as well as evergreen shrubs and trees that in other seasons provide background and structure.
Home Garden problems Insects SWD Trial Cherry Tree Cover Tested for Spotted Wing Drosophila Control Tracy Lesperance, Cathy Coulter, and Chuck Ingels UC Cooperative Extension, Sacramento County September 2012 Background.
