
Posts Tagged: nursery
UC IPM Hosts Workshop for Retailers
Integrated Pest Management Workshop for Retail Nurseries and Garden Centers Register now for this hands-on, train-the-trainer workshop designed especially for retail nursery and garden center employees, managers, owners, and affiliates. The...
Reading Pesticide Labels

You've probably heard it's important to read the label on a pesticide bottle, but you might not know why or what to even look for on the label. Understanding pesticide labels is critical for choosing the appropriate products for the right pest, in the...
Mosquitoes in Garden Centers

This article was written for the UC IPM Retail Nursery and Garden Center News, a publication directed at retail nursery store employees. With the recent confirmed human West Nile virus deaths in California, it's important to understand how...
Invasive Spotlight: Invasive Plants

People in urban and suburban areas often use the term “invasive” to describe plants or weeds that appear to take over a garden or landscape. However, true invasive plants are weeds that infest ecosystems, rangelands, and pasture—places...
New Invasive Plant Resources

Invasive plants—plants that can disperse, establish, and spread without human assistance or disturbance—pose a serious problem in California's waterways, wildlands and rangelands. Common garden weeds, unlike invasive plants, don't generally...
Giant Reed in a stream. (J. DiTomaso)