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My daughter gave me a wonderful, scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens) for Mother's Day several years ago. It flourishes on my side porch, and I repot it regularly. I like it so much that I have rooted sprigs of that plant and given them as gifts.

#GiveBack to Grow Forward with UC Master Gardeners on Giving Tuesday! Giving Tuesday is a global day to #GiveBack.

A recent study found that higher infant diet quality scores observed in Hispanic Spanish-speaking participants account for certain racial and ethnic variations in later diet quality, suggesting that enhancing infant nutrition could mitigate early childhood diet disparities.

La temporada navidea se acerca rpidamente! Dado que muchas personas viajan y visitan nuevos lugares durante este tiempo, es importante comprender cmo verificar si hay chinches y evitar que regresen a casa con usted.

Today is Black Friday, a day that marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. It's reportedly the busiest shopping day of the year. But to us, today is Green Friday, in recognition of a female green praying mantis,Stagmomantis limbata.

Wood ashes are not beneficial in the garden.

If you are planning to put some new plants in the ground now so they will be established when spring comes around, consider planting a hedgerow.

Let's put the "thanks" in THANKSgiving by bee-ing thankful for the honey bee, Apis mellifera...

The day that inspires acts of generosity is here again on Nov. 28 it's Giving Tuesday, and we hope you support the UC Master Gardener Program in its 8th year of participating! Giving Tuesday is a global movement that takes place every year on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.

Walnut scale (Figure 1) is an important economic pest of walnuts in California. High populations of walnut scale may affect tree vigor as well as predispose trees to diseases caused by several plant pathogenic fungi and possibly flatheaded borer damage.