Gardening

UCCE Sacramento Valley Water Newsletter - Winter 2026In this Issue: Seasonal Irrigation Considerations for Orchard CropsManagement of Golden Mussels in Northern California Agricultural Water SystemsUpcoming EventsQuarterly Groundwater ReportResources

An Invitation to Garden Beauty: A Rose Pruning Primer  It’s that pruning time of year! The period from Christmas until early March (depending on elevation) is the best time to get started. Your bushes will look more attractive and produce larger flowers with good pruning, and you can shape them to the…

You might be surprised to learn that a few of your favorite ornamental plants are invasive to California and can “escape” your yard causing big problems in the wild. When plants escape landscape and garden boundaries, it is often due to seed distribution or aggressive roots. An invasive plant species can…

Heirloom tomatoes are open-pollinated varieties which were either introduced commercially before 1940, or grown from seeds that have been passed down at least 50 years through several generations of a family, religious, ethnic, or tribal group, without the plants crossing with another variety of the same…

The Spring 2026 Series of Master Gardener Workshops begins Tuesday, February 3 with a timely session on starting summer vegetable plants from seed and concludes in mid-May with a workshop on creating a bird-friendly garden of native plants. In all, this Spring 2026 Series totals 17 workshops, including seven…

Winter rains and damp conditions in many parts of California may have brought a surprise visitor to your lawn: mushrooms! A few mushrooms sprouting in your lawn can be a good sign: it means there's plenty of organic matter in the soil. But if patches of mushrooms are sprinkled across your lawn, something…

This week on In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners, we bring you a new show on the topic of “Indoor House Plants”! Master Gardener Dece Morgan met Julie Bawden-Davis, who is a fellow MG and a resident expert on indoor houseplants, at her home for a relaxed tour and conversation about Julie’s vast home…

Pollinator Plant List #4     BLUE BOA HUMMINGBIRD MINT Agastache 'Blue Boa' WOOLLYPOD MILKWEED Asclepias eriocarpa ROCK PURSLANE Calandrinia spectabilis BUSH MONKEY FLOWER Diplacus aurantiacus WHITE GAURA Gaura lindheimeri WILD BERGAMOT Monarda fistulosa DESERT GLOBEMALLOW Sphaeralcea ambigua TALL…