Sagehen Creek Calflora.org “What Grows Here?” – We have many of these (or if we don’t have the exact species we have a close Genera native relation). The partial list of local natives from this small area we often carry are below in bold. Sagehen...
Kellogg / G&B 14TH Annual Free Planting Days Join us FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, June 2 & June 3, 10a-2p. Create colorful baskets and bountiful pots to enjoy. Here’s how it works… 1. You purchase the flower, herb or veggie plants from Villager Nursery 2....
Not everyone needs lawn or even a meadow or mowed pasture. For many people, a completely wild (but managed for defensible space) landscape is perfect. Lawns provide a cool and clean outdoor room or playground for children and pets summer through fall. • Lawn is a...
We do this because we love helping people find plants that will provide joy, food, or solve a problem in their garden or landscape. We love the years-long processes of testing plants in our challenging environment and sharing what we learn with others. They say...
Fall Planting / Autumn Gardening Start gardening at the first sign of spring? Naw. September and October are months to accomplish the most important gardening tasks before winter settles in. MOST of next year’s garden success depends upon the care your garden is...
Mulch 2022 A brief missive on the reasons that mulching over our poor mineral soils in this very dry Mediterranean climate, in the rain-shadow of the Sierras is so important.
Tree Winterizing PDF: Tree Winterizing 2022 •) Improving the odds – It is often little things we do in our gardens that slightly (or greatly) increase the odds of our plants surviving and thriving. Know that, in nature, on the dry side of the Sierras, one in a...
We desperately need fuels reduction work throughout and all around our community. USFS and Tahoe Donner have been doing some terrific projects in quite a few outlying, surrounding locations but we need a great deal IN town, especially open spaces and public lands....
This year we cut fewer trees and brought in a few less from local sources and Oregon farms and the trees are leaving faster than usual. For decades, we’d sell just 15-20% of our fresh-cut trees before Dec 18 (or so) and then when the second-home owners and...
September in Truckee is Summer AND Fall. Most of us have LONG considered Labor Day the official start of Local’s Summer. In this summer of the COVID… who knows. We have not written a blog-post since April and we’ve yet to send out a nursery newsletter (who needs...
