Southern California Coastal & Inland Valleys
March, 2005
Regional Report
National News - From NGA Editors
Celebrate National Garden Month
"Give A Garden -- Add Beauty to Life" is the theme of this year's National Garden Month, a celebration organized by the National Gardening Association, with the assistance of numerous...
Hellebores: Perennial Plant of the Year
The Lenten rose ( Helleborus x hybridus ) has been making quite a splash recently. There are many new varieties available, and more gardeners are discovering the delights of this early-blooming,...
Barberry Alternatives
Barberries are attractive landscape plants. Their thorns can repel deer and other animals, they spread quickly to create a protective hedge, they are widely adapted to poor soils, and they grow in...
Micro Eco-Farming
While a major back-to-the-land movement 30 years ago received a lot of press, author Barbara Berst-Adams contends another more quiet back-to-the-land movement has been happening on small acreages...
In the Garden
Gardening in Our Communities and Schools
Great things happen when a community or school garden gets started. Neighbors and passers-by exclaim joy and relief that "something's finally happening" to a blighted or underused plot of land. Order comes out of chaos. Weeds are displaced by fragrant...
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Resources
Web Finds
Common Ground Garden Program The University of California Cooperative Extension Los Angeles County Common Ground Garden...
Books
A Guide for Starting Children's Gardens Children's Gardens: A Field Guide for Teachers, Parents, and Volunteers is a book that helps...
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Regional Reminders
- Growing Bulb Onions
- Pluck Strawberry Blooms
- Start Herbs From Seed
- Plant Citrus and Avocado Trees
- Plant Summer-Blooming Bulbs
