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Jennifer Jewell In a North State Garden is a radio- and web-based outreach program of the Northern California Natural History Museum, in Chico, Calif. The mission of In a North State Garden is to celebrate the art, craft and science of home gardening in California’s North State region. The program is conceived, written, photographed and hosted by Jennifer Jewell. To read more from In A North State Garden or to listen to the podcasts aired on KCHO/KFPR radio, click on jewellgarden.com.

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35 years old - Evergreen & Growing Strong: Pacific Horticulture

35 years old - Evergreen & Growing Strong: Pacific Horticulture(0)

February 6, 2010 By Jennifer Jewell

Age in a garden is a wonderful thing – worthy of celebrating. Age in a gardening publication in my mind is to be celebrated equally because it is through gardening publications that the ephemera of gardens and gardeners live on…

35 years old - Evergreen & Growing Strong: Pacific Horticulture
February 2010 in the Garden & Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events

February 2010 in the Garden & Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events

Wow – How about that rain and snow? And more is on the way. Which is wonderful for our plants, soils and watersheds, but when it comes in long stretches of gray days, it can play havoc with my mood…

Raising Expectations: Raised Bed Gardening with Denise Kelly & The Plant Barn

Raising Expectations: Raised Bed Gardening with Denise Kelly & The Plant Barn

This epic wet weather in the North State over the past few weeks has me holed up and dreaming about my spring planting of seeds. I am working on expanding my raised beds for vegetables from the existing two to…

Pruning for Long Life: Rico Montenegro and the Historic Camden House Orchards, Whiskeytown

Pruning for Long Life: Rico Montenegro and the Historic Camden House Orchards, Whiskeytown

How’s the pruning going for you?

I’ve just finished pruning my ‘Pink Lady’ apple and ‘Santa Rosa’ plum trees. I am still working on the roses and grapes, but the fruit trees are done. It went pretty well this year –…

  • The Beauty of Variegation, with Terry Miller of TJ’s Nursery & Gifts in Chico
  • Simplicity: January in the Garden & The Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • Saving up From a Rainy Day: Rainwater Harvesting with Phyllis Clark-Kirkman, Redding
  • Queen of Winter Flowers: Camellias in the Garden with Jerry Mendon
  • Looking Up: Vertical Gardening with Eileen Barry of Wild Thyme Gifts & Gardens, Redding
  • Gifts from the Garden & Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • The Seeker’s Garden: Walking in Peace - Labyrinths and the Chico Community Labyrinth Project
  • Growing Up: Kiwi in the Garden
  • Juicy Couture in the North State Garden: Succulents - as Good as They Sound
  • A Season of Plenty and Thanks: November in the Garden & Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • Shasta Lake Garden Project and Pride of Place: A Blue Star Memorial
  • The Splendor of Trees in the North State Garden
  • Branching Out: In a North State Garden Is Growing!
  • In Good Company - From a Fall Perspective: The Companion Planting Display Beds at the McConnell Arboretum & Gardens at Turtle Bay
  • October in the Garden: Add, Multiply & Divide (Conquering not included)
  • Red Bluff Garden Club: Work, History, & Floral Design Program & Luncheon Oct. 3
  • The Gateway Science Museum and Its Ecoregions-Based Gardens in Chico
  • Cal Water’s Conservation (and Education) Garden in Chico
  • Late Summer in the Garden & Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • Planning and Planting your Fall and Winter Vegetable Garden with George Winter of Wyntour Gardens in Redding
  • Vermicomposting: Creating Garden Gold, with Ward Habriel
  • Surprising Beauty: Carnivorous Plants in the Garden
  • Did You Say Tropical? Anything-But-Timid Tropical Plants for the North State Garden
  • August in the Garden & the Monthly Calendar of Regional Events
  • Flowers for the Table: Working with Garden Flowers for Home Arrangements, with Award-winning Floral Designer Gerry Gregg, AIFD
  • Heady, High-Drama Hydrangeas for the North State Summer Garden
  • Locally Delicious and 2 Years Old:
    ‘edible Shasta-Butte’
  • Dog Days of Summer in the Garden & The Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • The Resourceful Gardeners: Alice Wilkinson and Tom O’Mara of Happy Valley
  • For the Love of Lavender: Tuscan Heights Lavender Gardens in Whitmore
  • Good grub from the garden to you: The GRUB Cooperative in Chico
  • June in the Garden & Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • Mixing It Up: The Art of the Mixed Border, with Christy Santos
  • Inspiration to the Garden: Dan Hinkley at High-Hand Nursery in Loomis
  • Late case of spring fever? The remedy.
  • Mr. & Mrs. Armstrong Go to Washington - To Accept NutriLawn, Inc.’s California Small Business of the Year Award
  • May in the Garden, Fascinating Ferns and Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • In Good Company: Companion Planting Display Garden (and Festa Botanica!) at the McConnell Arboretum and Gardens at Turtle Bay
  • Plant Love + Fine Art + Science = Botanical Illustration: The Work of Susan Bazell
  • Gardening as Social & Political Action: Chico Organic Gardening Classes - David Grau, Founder
  • Edible Landscaping: How to Get Growing the Things You Want to Eat!
  • Who Invited the Aphids? And Thank Goodness for Flower Shows & Garden Tours!
  • Introducing the All-Star Plant Selection Program from the UC Davis Arboretum
  • Everything’s Coming Up Wildflowers!
  • CSU-Chico’s Excellent Herbarium
  • March 2009 in the Garden & Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • A Passion for Prickly Pears with Home Gardener & Nursery Woman Diane Stout - Orland
  • A Designer’s Eye: Karen McGrath, Landscape Designer - Redding
  • Lorna Bonham, Cathy Wilson & The Red Bluff Garden Club’s part in the Restoration of Cone & Kimball Plaza
  • Spring? Too Early. February in the Garden & Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
  • The Beauty of Variegation: Talking to Terry Miller, TJ’s Nursery & Gifts, Chico
  • A Mid-Winter Walk in the Park: UC Davis Arboretum
  • California Native Plant Society Conservation Conference Jan 17-19, Sacramento
  • Tidying the Toolshed & Your Gardening Events Calendar
  • Leimone Waite, Master Gardener Program at Shasta College
  • Tom Fischer, Timber Press: Horticultural Publishers - Portland, Ore.
  • Nancy Heinzel & Brian Marshall, Sawmill Creek Farm Paprika - Paradise
  • Teresa Wolk Hayes, The Little Red Hen Nursery & Gift Shop - Chico
  • December in the Garden: The Thankful Season & Monthly Calendar of Events
  • After Fire in the North State Garden – McConnell Arboretum and Gardens at Turtle Bay Exploration Park - Redding
  • New friend in the house: ‘In a North State Garden’