The new California State Flower & Garden Show will take place this coming weekend: April 8 – 11, 2010 at Cal Expo in Sacramento. On Saturday April 10th at 3:00 pm, as one of the featured speakers for Pacific Horticulture, I… Continue Reading
April is a busy, busy month in the garden. For most parts of the North State the alternating cool and warm, windy and still, damp and dry will keep us guessing. While there are really no hard and fast rules… Continue Reading
While there is no regular “In a North State Garden” radio program this weekend, this week’s feature essay is the follow-up to the special one-hour Call-In Edition of “In a North State Garden” that was aired on Thursday March 25th.… Continue Reading
Do you remember when you first realized you were a plant lover? Do you remember when you first became a ‘gardener?’ If you are reading this, chances are you became a lover of plants at some fairly definable point: an… Continue Reading
Let’s face it – I am all about habitat and environmentally friendly and responsible gardening. I am. I love birds, bees, butterflies and the like. But, let’s also face the fact that we live in deer country. And Oh Deer!… Continue Reading
Did you have to read William Butler Yeats when you were in school? I can’t recall too many things I had to read in school and can still remember, but this poem continues to be one of my favorites: Photo:… Continue Reading
The Wildflower Wand and the February Fake-Out: My gardening friend John Whittlesey, of Canyon Creek Nursery outside of Oroville, is working on a landscape design job in the Stonyford area. He wrote to me in mid-February describing his experience of… Continue Reading
“I like to think they are shy,” David Walther, co-owner with his wife Cathy, of Spring Fever Nursery in Yankee Hill tells me, speaking of his beloved hellebores. “Many varieties of hellebores have flowers that face downward because as winter… Continue Reading
It’s mid-February, and even in the colder sections of the North State the time is now for planning and even planting your spring and summer vegetable seeds and starts – inside and out. On Feb. 15, I hosted a special… Continue Reading
The Gateway Science Museum is opening to the public on Saturday, Feb. 27 – with a ribbon-cutting at 10 a.m. and grand opening celebration activities for adults and children alike throughout the day – throughout the whole museum. Photo: The… Continue Reading
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