Tag: gardens and gardening
The Mountain Gardener | Landscape Design Tips for Your Garden
This is the time of year to re-imagine your garden. Sure, that cleanup and weed control is an ongoing task, but it’s more fun...
The Mountain Gardener | Love Is in the Air — Plant...
One of my favorite classes when I attended Cal Poly San Luis Obispo was Plant Taxonomy. On the surface the subject sounds a little...
The Mountain Gardener | Phenology and Climate Change
What’s that wet stuff coming from the sky? Hopefully by the time you’re reading this we will have gotten some much-needed rainfall. I wanted...
The Mountain Gardener | Get Excited About Bare Root Edibles
A visit to any of our local nurseries at this time of year is like a visit to the candy store for a gardener....
The Mountain Gardener | For the Love of Roses
January is almost over with nary a raindrop. Our days have been lovely and many of my plants have started growing earlier than usual....
The Mountain Gardener | Houseplants — Good for You and Your...
I look out my sliding glass doors and see tall redwoods and stately oaks, but on the inside I enjoy the green and sometimes...
The Mountain Gardener | What’s Old is New Again: Gardening Trends...
In the spirit of my annual New Year’s resolution to learn something new every day, I did some research on Calscape about adding butterfly...
The Mountain Gardener | The 2025 Pantone Color of the Year
Every year when the Pantone Color of the Year is announced, I write a column about all the great plants that echo that color....
The Mountain Gardener | Happy New Year 2025
I’ve been on this planet for quite a few years now, so why is it always hard for me to get my head around...
The Mountain Gardener | ’Twas the Night Before Christmas — A...
’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the garden,
The creatures were stirring, the deer got a pardon.
The hummingbird feeders were hung by the...
Felton, Santa Cruz meetings planned on invasive shothole borer
The County of Santa Cruz and UC Cooperative Extension will host two community meetings this month to provide information about monitoring and mitigating the...
