Gardening

Discover tips for winter planting of perennial vegetables, including advice on selecting, maintaining and harvesting perennial crops for a year-round garden.

Discover the fascinating wool carder bees, their behavior, and role in gardens. Learn about the interactions between native, non-native bees, and honeybees.

Learn home fertilizing basics, including essential soil health tips, nutrient guidance, and plant care fundamentals.

A collection of tips and informant to improve your home garden's soil.

Whether you're planting a new garden or refreshing an existing landscape, there is a world of horticultural beauty at your fingertips. Shrubs, perennials, groundcovers, and grasses form the backbone of many gardens.

Pittosporum tobira, mock orange. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Shrubs are extremely versatile and hard-working, often forming the framework of a landscape. Some are low-growing and others are as tall and large as trees. They make excellent privacy hedges, foundations, and evergreen backdrops.

Need help with a school garden? Be sure to review the useful school garden advice we have gathered for you.

Topography: This refers to land surfaceshills, slopes, north/south orientation, valleys, rivers, lakes, (natural or artificial features)or buildings. All of these affect air and water flow and can create microclimates in your own yard.

Succulents are well adapted to Northern California's dry and mild Mediterranean climate. Many are an easy-care plant suitable for any Sonoma County garden

Landscape Plants for Sonoma County We offer a number of plant lists to help you find the right plants for each place in your garden, or the right place for that plant you couldn't resist. The selection of plants on these lists is not intended to be exhaustive. There are many more plants that can be —…