“Winterizing” Your Garden – Villager Fall Class Series Prepare your garden so well this fall that it will reemerge healthy and vigorous next spring. Cut back perennials, tie trees and shrubs, prepare your lawn and “Fertilize with Biosol in Fall.” While it is...
Though we’d LOVE to plant local red fir / silvertip (Abies lasiocarpa) in landscapes, like white fir, red-fir is seldom grown, extremely slow growing, and a challenge to transplant and establish (as are many drought-adapted Sierra species). Subalpine fir is rare but...
In the 2002 July-October V30 3/4 Issue of FREMONTIA – a journal of the California Native Plant Society, there was a terrific article by Robbin W. Thorp, Peter C. Schroeder, and Carol S. Ferguson: Bumble Bees: Boisterous Pollinators of California Native Flowers....
Kellogg / G&B 15th Annual Free Planting Days Join us FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, May 31 & June 1, 10 AM-2:30 PM. Create colorful flower baskets and bountiful herb pots to enjoy all season. Here’s how it works… 1. You purchase the flower, herb or veggie plants...
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...
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...
