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Leaflet Summer 2023
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Gardener's checklist for summer
More heat, less water. This year it's more important than ever to keep a layer of mulch in the garden, pluck water-hogging weeds, and thin fruit on fruit trees. Keep up with garden chores for your best summer garden ever.
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Is something bugging your roses?
Roses are blooming profusely this year, rejoicing in the abundant rainfall they’ve received...
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Why prune fruit trees in the summer?
Summer pruning of fruit trees is desirable for several reasons...
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A salvia for every garden
Salvias, commonly known as sages, are a large group of garden plants that include over 900 varieties of annuals, perennials, and evergreen or deciduous shrubs...
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Buckwheat, Eriogonum spp.
The buckwheats are a group of California native shrubs and perennials that come in a wide range of sizes and colors and require little or no water once established...
Leaflet Spring 2023
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Gardener's checklist for spring
It's a busy time in the garden. There are weeds to be pulled, edible crops to be sown, and pests to manage. Don't forget to nurture your soil with a layer of compost and mulch. Here's a full list of springtime chores...
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Ready to start your spring edibles garden? How about some squash?
Zucchini has a bad reputation. Tales abound of zucchini taking over the vegetable garden, crowding out green beans and tomatoes, growing as long as baseball bats overnight...
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Welcome a beautiful blooming camellia to your landscape
Searching for an attractive, evergreen, blooming shrub for your garden? Perhaps a camellia is in your future...
Leaflet Winter 2022-23
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Why you should nix the "neonics"
Neonicotinoids, often called “neonics,” are the most widely used class of insecticides in the world. These neurotoxins are used on food crops as well as ornamentals...
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Emergency! Wake up call for our beloved monarch butterflies!
Who doesn’t thrill at the sight of a fluttering monarch, flitting from flower to flower, sipping nectar and spreading pollen? Well, folks, the Western Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is close to the extinction level...
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Gardener's checklist for winter
Here's a a month-by-month to-do list to keep your garden in tip top shape in the winter.
Leaflet Fall 2022
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Enjoy veggies from your garden all year long!
With summer gardens winding down and our summer vegetables fading, now is an ideal time to think about the cool season edible garden. But why stop there?
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How to prune hydrangeas
Pruning hydrangeas can be a bit tricky. The key is knowing which type you have...
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Native California bulbs for your garden
Fall is upon us, which means it’s almost time to plant spring-blooming bulbs. How about native California bulbs?
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Houseplants looking sick? It might be mealybugs.
Mealybugs are very small, oval, whitish insects that cover houseplants with a cottony, powdery, or waxy material, often along the veins of leaves or where leafstalks join stems...
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Shimmering pink muhly grass lights up the fall garden
Muhlenbergia capillaris, aka pink muhly grass, is a clump-forming perennial grass that puts on a show in the fall...
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Gardener's checklist for fall
It's a dry year, no doubt about it, but there are still apples to harvest, bulbs and cover crops to plant, and tools to clean. Here's a a month-by-month to-do list to keep your garden in tip top shape in the fall.
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Try your hand at growing mushrooms – no garden required!
Many of our local farmer’s markets offer an expansive variety of mushrooms with fabulous enticing names: lion’s mane, Matsutake, charcoal burner, hedgehog, oyster...
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Oakleaf hydrangea
Oakleaf hydrangeas offer year-round interest to the garden. In spring, the young leaves unfurl bright green and fuzzy...
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What to do with that rake in the fall
There’s nothing like the glowing presence of autumn colors, each brilliant red, orange, and yellow leaf backlit by the sun...