With severe storms increasingly likely from the “super El Niño” building in the Pacific Ocean, communities across California are scrambling to prepare – clearing ditches and culverts, fortifying burn ...

Learn to save seeds from beautiful gardens. Join us for a leisurely stroll through the various and beautiful Gardens of Sherwood. We will help you gather seeds from selected plants to take home and ...

2025 Camp Registration Form All applications are due in the Madera County 4-H Office by 5:00 p.m. on the published deadline date. Outstanding Leader Award outstanding_ldr_MCF31 State Leadership ...

One of the amusements a garden can provide is watching the birds, bees, butterflies and other critters drawn to it. Most of us have seen honeybees flying from flower to flower, sipping nectar or ...

This last year of unpredictable weather of up and down temps, hot and cold, some rain and dry weather, did not bode well for this gardener and maybe not for others. In my neck of the woods of the San ...

Pruning is perhaps the most common tree maintenance activity that is undertaken on urban and ornamental trees. This is in sharp contrast with forest trees, which are pruned only in exceptional cases ...

If you’ve been gardening in Alameda County for a while, you’ve probably noticed “new normals”: more warm nights, more heat spikes, and winter weather that can feel less reliably cold. Those shifts ...

If you see someone scrutinizing the trash at your local park, it could be urban ecologist Monica Palta. Fear not, you're just witnessing science in action. “It's basically trash archeology in a way,” ...

January to February: Thrips populations were above average compared to prior sampling years (Figure 2). March to May: Thrips populations were low, similar to prior years (Figure 2). June to November: ...

Each fall my Gravenstein apple gets a small patch of fluffy exudate on the bark at the base of the tree. These are caused by woolly apple aphids, Eriosoma lanigerum. I hose them off with a jet of ...

UC Berkeley's Blodgett Forest Research Station is the home of an ongoing, 20-year study investigating the impacts of prescribed fire and resoration thinning on forest health and wildfire risk in the ...

I recently learned that my favorite flowers are linked to my Greek heritage and Greek mythology [1]. Unbeknown to me, my favorite flowers and the ones I grow in my garden are daffodils, lilies, ...