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Pests of the Season
Winter is finally here! Leaves have fallen or are in the process of leaving our deciduous plants naked. Sends shivers up my spine! What's an avid gardener to do? There must be more to life than raking leaves. Growing winter crops help us stay active...
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Recipes From the Garden: A Taste of the Season
If you're like me, you'll be serving up soup all winter long. These comforting soups are perfect for those long, chilly nights spent at home. Paired with a crusty loaf of bread and a salad filled with seasonal greens, dinner is done! The cheesy...
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Horticultural Terms - Fasciation
While researching the horticultural term “Fasciation” for our winter blog, Master Gardener Cheryl Carmichael came across the following article on the same subject posted to the Wisconsin Master Gardener website by Susan Mahr, University of...
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Plants of the Season
SHRUB: Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus) is a small shrub in my garden, several of which I can enjoy from my office window as I write this. They currently have the white berries that give way to its name. It blooms in spring with clusters of bell-shaped...
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Winter Herb Study
Before the recent pandemic began, one of our Herb Study meetings gave us an opportunity to create Pomanders to hang in our homes during the Christmas Season. We had so much fun and put 100's of cloves in quite a few oranges. Did you know that the use of...
UC Garden Blogs
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California Dogface Butterfly: What the Fire Did
You've probably seen California's state insect, the California dogface butterfly, on a first-class stamp, in a book, or on the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology poster. Odds are you've never seen the dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice,...
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Ode to an Earwig
A winter pollinator garden does not buzz with bees; it crawls with earwigs, ants, roly-polys, and other insects. Turn over a rock, a pot, or a garden sculpture and there they are. Well, there one was. An earwig looked up as we lifted a...
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Peach Leaf Curl, Time to Spray!
If you have peach or nectarine trees that typically have distorted or reddened leaves in spring, they may be affected by peach leaf curl. Peach leaf curl is a fungal disease caused by a fungus that only affects peach and nectarine trees. With trees...
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Gwen Erdosh: Entomology Ambassador Extraordinaire
If you're not big on bugs, you will be--or should be--after seeing UC Davis entomologist Gwen Erdosh's recent interview with reporter Ashley Williams on Good Day Sacramento. Erdosh, 21, an undergraduate entomology major and president of the UC...