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Hot Summer Color for Northern California
Summertime in Northern California brings longer days, hotter temperatures, minimal rainfall, and with any luck, a great vacation or two. We're lazier gardeners now that the spring rush is over,…
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Northern California July Garden To-Do List
For the Northern California gardener, July means that summer has truly settled in. There are consistently warmer temperatures, intermittent heat waves, fog for coastal gardeners, and pleasant afternoons spent weeding,…
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Entry Garden in California
Today’s photos come from Mario Herrada, a landscape designer in the Bay Area of California, who is sharing some photos of a beautiful entry garden created for a client in…
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Veggie Varieties for Italian Cooking
Late-summer harvests of juicy tomatoes, fresh herbs, delicious red peppers, and leafy greens inspire tasty suppers. And putting together a pizza topped with your very own, fresh-from-the-garden summer veggies is…
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Northern California June Garden To-Do List
In the ornamental garden Deadhead, mulch, and fertilize roses. Along with regular deadheading, make sure to pick your roses often—both for filling summer bouquets and to ensure continuous bloom production.…
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Midspring Pleasures
Today we’re in Northern California, enjoying the pleasures of Donna Vail’s riverside garden. Living on the banks of a river can be a gardening challenge when the view makes you…
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Regional Picks: Variegated Plants for Shade—California
See regional picks for variegated plants for shade, and read the article by Andy Brand for even more ideas. “While the cool, shady areas have provided me with the opportunity…
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Northern California May Garden To-Do List
What to do in the ornamental garden Go on pest patrol. By regularly inspecting your rose bushes for pests and diseases and eliminating problems early on, you'll enjoy strong, healthy…
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Four Fragrant Favorites for Northern California
For the plant lover, fragrance enhances the gardening experience, adding an almost magical layer to the beauty of a plant and an intangible dimension to the garden's design. Fragrance can…
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April Garden To-Do List for Northern California
The true gardening year begins in earnest for most Northern California gardeners this month. The danger of frost is minimal, the air temperatures are reliably higher, and the soil is…