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By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners May 1. It is the day that you should strive to plant three things in your...

By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener What’s In a Name? By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener Have you ever looked at a plant label...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Have you ever stood in your yard and thought “I need to do something in here.”...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners We have talked about gardening in raised beds but sometimes there isn’t enough...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners I guess you have noticed that the price of things is going up. One of those...

By Debbie Roland, Emmy Ulmschneider and Shirley Kelley, Master Gardeners You know how you keep hearing that you need to eat right and...

By Debbie Roland, Emmy Ulmschneider, and Shirley Kelley, Master Gardeners Insects are the cogs that keep our Earth’s machinery running. ...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water. --Loren Eisley,...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in the water. --Loren Eisley,...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners The amount of information available to us now is amazing. You can type in...

By Debbie Roland, Master Gardener It started with two packets of seed and a chicken. Okay six chickens. I was born and raised in...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners As Master Gardeners, we all spend long hours outside, often working alone, and...

By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener I grew up surrounded by forests and our gardens reflected and blended seamlessly with them. My...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Both of us grow plants for food and for aesthetics in our yards. But our...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Last year when the monarchs were migrating, I wondered where the rest of the...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners We first wrote about Butterfly Bush (Buddleia davidii), in August, 2021. It is a...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Most of us are familiar with the European honeybee which was brought by...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners One of my childhood memories is that of watching bats catching their evening...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider My desk (Debbie) faces the backyard and has a view of the garden pond which has a large tree over...

By Jessie Clark, Master Gardener While some plants may express their resentment of the desert heat in the summer, well-established...

By Jessie Clark, Master Gardener Cool season crops are trending again in the world of gardening! As commercial flower grower and...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider When you are a gardener, winter can be frustrating! It gets dark earlier, and you miss the...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is a herb-like grass that is native to Malaysia and India. It is...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider People garden for different reasons and there is a garden book to cover each one. We each have...