Do you like Owens Valley's native plants? Do you like reading blog posts? (You must since you're reading this!) If that's you then we have some good news: we have a second blog that focuses on our native plant garden at the Lone Pine visitors' center.
A new study outlining the costs and returns of establishing and producing navel oranges with low-volume irrigation in the southern San Joaquin Valley has been released by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, UC Cooperative Extension and the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics...
Find the praying mantis. That's not too difficult, considering this Stagmomantis limbata is gravid (pregnant) and about ready to deposit her ootheca (egg case or "ooth") on a nearby twig or branch.
What's Another Name For a Prickly Pear? (Hint: Sounds the same as a fish you may know and like) As I drive around I check out stuff. New streets, new areas, places to shop, ideas for landscaping. Landscaping, hmmm. Cactus plants are pretty common.
Head to the Bodega Bay in Sonoma County and you'll see little kids building sandcastles on the beaches. But head to Bodega Head in the spring and summer, and if you're lucky, you'll see female digger beesbumble bee mimicscreating their own versions of sandcastles.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a Health Advisory recently in response to increased reports of illness associated with products containing the pesticide ivermectin.
After spending more than a year working at the native plant garden, Master Gardener volunteers have successfully conquered the intrusion of weeds, death through over-watering of cacti, overgrowth of ambitious native plants, decline of fragile plants, and other challenges of maintaining a demonstrati...
by Dianne Weyna During the lockdown is probably how many stories will start these days. With all that time on my hands I have done a few experiments of tropical plantings. Like millions before me I started a couple avocados seeds.
Remember Godzilla? The 1954 iconic film, Godzilla, featured what Wikipedia calls "an enormous, destructive prehistoric sea monster awakened and empowered by nuclear radiation." I have a Godzilla.
