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Understanding the microclimates within your garden can unlock new possibilities for plant growth and diversity. Microclimates, small environmental pockets within a larger area, significantly influence the success of your home garden.

Starting tonight is our 2024 cattle health webinar series. We have a great line up of speakers every Tuesday night this month for cattle producers of all sizes! The event is FREE to participate but registration is required. To REGISTER click here.

Seventy-three is the magic number. When Distinguished Professor Walter Leal celebrates the newest UC Davis faculty retirees with a special program at the International Center on Wednesday, Feb. 7, he'll pay tribute to 73 emeriti faculty in the cohort. Ten will serve as speakers.

February 15 (10 - 12 AM) Topics and Speakers Avocado Thrips Biology and Control Speakers to be announced soon Introduction to Avocado Thrips By Hamutahl Cohen, PH.D. Entomology Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension PCA Panel on Thrips Management Under Different Weather Scenarios Moderator Dr.

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Blue Eyed Grass By Andrea Peck UCCE Master Gardener Common name of plant: Blue-Eyed Grass Scientific name: Sisyrinchium bellum Planting area: USDA Zones 4-9 Size: 6-18 tall, 6-12 wide Bloom Season: Spring to Summer Exposure: Full or partial sun Water needs: Low Blue-eyed grass is an eye-catching Cal...

A rainy New Year awakens Bringing future life to garden and landscape plants Get ready for these planting adventures...

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Sandipa Gautam, Editor In this issue: California inundated with invasive fruit flies Satellite-based irrigation tools to manage irrigation water more precisely in avocado groves Managing citrus mealybug does ant control help?