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This article originally appeared in the October 11, 2023 Mountain Democrat A perennial plant is a gift you can give yourself that keeps giving back to you. Perennials are enduring and its fun to anticipate their return year after year. Fall is the best time to plant perennials.

View or download the Veggie Plant Care Tip Sheet SEEDLING CARE LIGHT Your seedlings are partially hardened off by being outside and exposed to the sun. Continue to take them outside as long as the temperature is above 50 degrees.

Japanese Gardens are traditional-style gardens that have existed since the sixth to seventh centuries BC. These unique gardens embody principles of Japanese culture, religion, and reverence for beauty and the simplicity of nature.

Fairy gardens and fantasy creations create bright spots of interest in your garden, captivating children and adults alike. They can be full of pixies, dragons, or dinosaurs, or perhaps have little dwellings that invite the imagination to fill them.

Cyclamen A Pop of Color in Winter By Anne Bettencourt UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County Most flowering perennials are dormant during cooler winter months.

Grow a garden on hard-pan, lava rock or other inhospitable surface by building a hgel first. Much less expensive than container or raised-bed gardening, hgelkultur is a traditional way to build a garden bed. Never buy bagged soil again! Build a hgel and make your own planting soil.

By Pauline Atkins UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County This article originally appeared in the 4/19/23 Mountain Democrat At the Sherwood Demonstration Garden Vegetable Garden, Master Gardeners of El Dorado County volunteers assembled a Hgelkultur.

It is a pretty safe guess that most all of us have plenty of native rock on our properties here in El Dorado County.

Do the bright green leaves of buckeye bring stirrings of spring? Do lupine blossoms remind you of hiking your favorite trails? Did you get to see your favorite wildflower during this years super bloom?

UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County appeared in the 11-16-2022 Mountain Democrat Pests in the garden are not always creepy crawlers; they can be plants too, and some are even very attractive.