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Japanese Garden

The Sherwood Demo Garden is comprised of 16 individual gardens. The educational goal with respect to the Japanese Garden is to provide interest in Japanese gardening techniques and to provide education and experiences pertaining to Japanese gardens. Shinto, Buddhist, and Taoist philosophies have influenced…
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Central Sierra: El Dorado County | Master Gardener | Rose Garden

The Sherwood Demo Garden is comprised of 16 individual gardens. Our Rose Garden is a classic rose garden with four beds arranged in a circle around a center gazebo, enclosed within a picket fence with arbors for climbing roses at the ends of the four brick paths.
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Central Sierra: El Dorado County | Master Gardener | Ornamental Grasses

The Sherwood Demo Garden is comprised of 16 individual gardens. The Ornamental Grasses garden hopes to demonstrate to the public that grasses can be as beautiful as other perennials, are appropriate plants for our area and how to care for and maintain grasses year round.
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Central Sierra: El Dorado County | Master Gardener | Dedicated to Bob Sherwood

Welcome to the Sherwood Demonstration Garden Lovingly Designed, Constructed, and Managed by UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County University of California Cooperative Extension The Sherwood Demonstration Garden formally took root in 2008 when a group of ambitious, farsighted El Dorado County Mas...
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Central Sierra: El Dorado County | Master Gardener | Perennial Garden

Perennial plants have a life span of 2 or more years and can be categorized as woody (trees, shrubs or vines) or herbaceous (die back to the ground in Winter) plants, evergreen or deciduous. The Perennial Garden has a design feature that uses unusual plants along with common plants in our area. One…
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Orange County

To report firewood or trees suspected of being infested with GSOB: Call the GSOB Hotline (951) 659-8328 or use this online form. To request GSOB information materials and handouts: Contact Annika Nabors: ajnabors@ucanr.edu.
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Bibliography

Coleman, T. W., & Seybold, S. J. (2016). Goldspotted Oak Borer in California: Invasion History, Biology, Impact, Management, and Implications for Mediterranean Forests Worldwide. Insects and Diseases of Mediterranean Forest Systems, 663-697. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-24744-1_22 View article here.
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