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Join professional arborist and orchardist, Terence Welch, for a live, hands-on session on how to winter prune deciduous fruit trees. This class will focus on pome fruits (apples and pears) as well as stone fruits (peach, nectarine, plum, apricot).

Do you have fruit trees in need of pruning? Do you want help sorting out the difference between a thinning cut and a heading cut? Bring your gloves and clippers for a hands-on fruit tree pruning demonstration at San Juan Bautista State Historical Park.

Bring your gloves and clippers for a hands-on rose pruning demonstration at San Juan Bautista Historical Park Rose Gardens! After a brief demonstration and orientation, youll join Master Gardener, Suzanne Cook, in the rose gardens for an opportunity to practice your new-found pruning skills.

Workshop Series Goal: To connect landowners affected by recent wildfires to post-fire management concepts, strategies, professions and programs Private forest landowners within the coastal mountains of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and surrounding counties.

Workshop Series Goal: To connect landowners affected by recent wildfires to post-fire management concepts, strategies, professions and programs Private forest landowners within the coastal mountains of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and surrounding counties.

Workshop Series Goal: To connect landowners affected by recent wildfires to post-fire management concepts, strategies, professions and programs Private forest landowners within the coastal mountains of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and surrounding counties.

Workshop Series Goal: To connect landowners affected by recent wildfires to post-fire management concepts, strategies, professions and programs Private forest landowners within the coastal mountains of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and surrounding counties.

Join UC Master Gardeners in a hands-on demonstration of fruit tree planting in our NEW Demonstration Garden. MGs Diane Mahan and Robin Spring will discuss and demonstrate best tree placement, planting depth and wide, tree orientation, and what amendments and mulch to use.

Workshop Series Goal: To connect landowners affected by recent wildfires to post-fire management concepts, strategies, professions and programs Private forest landowners within the coastal mountains of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara and surrounding counties.

Dreaming of your summer garden on a dark and stormy day? Take this time to figure out what you're going to plant, when you need to plant it and how to lay out your vegetable garden in spring. Well cover site selection, solar exposure, soil prep, crops and timing and crop rotation.

Integrated pest management, or IPM, is a process you can use to solve pest problems in your garden while minimizing risks to people and the environment.

Cabrillo's horticulture department is holding a plant sale at Cabrillo on Saturday April 13th and are also hosting the California Native Plant Society, Santa Cruz County Chapter's Spring Plant Sale.

Our annual Spring Plant Sale features seasonal herbs and vegetables ready for the garden as well as water-wise plants, including California native plants and shrubs, carefully selected bulbs, pollinator-friendly plants, a variety of salvias and sages, and succulents, and indoor plants.

It's always time to compost! Would you like natural, homemade compost for your seedlings, potted plants and vegetable gardens?

Spring is here and it's time to find out how to prepare your garden beds for high productivity, learn what to plant when, know what to plant from seed versus starts, and discover tips to keep your plants thriving through the summer months.

On Sunday May 5, 2024 at 1 PM, the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society will feature a tour of the Monte Toyon Garden of Maury and Fran Sumner, that is located at the Monte Toyon Camp and Conference Center, 220 Cloister Lane, Aptos. http://www.deanza-ars.

Now is a great time to plant a citrus bush or tree! Citrus trees are versatile additions to any home garden. They can be grown in a container, in the ground, and a healthy citrus tree will provide years of abundant fruit.

Sierra Azul Nursery and the Monterey Bay/Santa Cruz County Master Gardeners invite our local community to join us to learn regenerative soil techniques that you can add to your gardening bag of tricks.

Did you know that Monterey County has more that 1,500 species of native plants? Unfortunately, many of these species have declining populations.

Do you want to control the insect pests in your garden without harmful chemicals?