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In most counties, UC Master Gardener volunteers are still available to support your home gardening questions by e-mail, telephone, or ZOOM. Please note that many UC Master Gardener Program public education events statewide are being rescheduled, postponed or moved to an online through June 30, 2021.

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The UC Master Gardener Program designed the California Garden Web to serve as a portal to organize and extend the University of California's vast collection of research-based information about gardening to the public. The California Garden Web focuses on sustainable gardening practices and uses a question and answer format to present solutions. The blog below highlights gardening issues pertaining to the season.

New book shows how Californians are bolstering climate resilience

Added September 10, 2021

Wildfires that generate their own weather, drought, record-breaking heatwaves, and frequent flooding are compelling more people to try to mitigate and adapt to climate change. A new book co-authored by Adina Merenlender, UC...
The importance of trees to cool urban heat islands

Added August 26, 2021

Partnering for California Spring 2021 proved to be one of the hottest in California, breaking heat records in several cities. It was a perfect opportunity to plant “climate-ready landscape trees” in inland cities identified in a study...

Gray Hairstreak Host Plant: A Record of Some Kind?

Added September 22, 2021

Where are the monarch butterflies? They're MIA on the four species of milkweed in our Vacaville pollinator garden But milkweed attracts other insects, including honey bees, carpenter bees,...