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Thursdays at noon.

Rebroadcasts Saturday 9 a.m.

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Recent shows
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02 September 2010
What blooms in September?
26 August 2010
Summer garden topics
19 August 2010
Weather and your garden; gardening for good bugs, and more
12 August 2010
August flowers, weeds, and more!
05 August 2010
How to make cuttings; your questions, and more!
29 July 2010
Summer gardening questions answered!
22 July 2010
Watering exceptions, allelopathy, buffalograss, and more!
15 July 2010
More summer garden questions
08 July 2010
How to water -- principles and examples
01 July 2010
Summer gardening questions
24 June 2010
Fruit trees, tomatoes, and other questions
17 June 2010
6/17 show did not record; this is a special rebroadcast:
All about watering
10 June 2010
Geraniums, thrips, heat lovers, and more
03 June 2010
Questions about watering, containers, and more
27 May 2010
What's wrong with my vegetables?!
20 May 2010
Questions about vegetables, aphids, and more!
13 May 2010
Tomato and fruit tree questions, and more!
06 May 2010
Vegetables, irrigation; is systemic safe?
29 April 2010
Starting a veg garden; understanding spring plant diseases
22 April 2010
Spring garden questions, watering, diseases, and more!
15 April 2010
Potatoes, dahlias, perennials, and more!
08 April 2010
Mulch, lilacs, and more!
01 April 2010
Soil pH, walnut toxicity, and more!
25 March 2010
Citrus suckers, raised planters, and more!
18 March 2010
Ladybugs, weed killers, and more!
11 March 2010
March in your garden!
04 March 2010
Lawn weeds, peppers, fungus, and more
25 February 2010
House plants, fruit flies, and more
18 February 2010
early spring garden questions!
11 February 2010
Grapes, blueberries, iceplant, and more
04 February 2010
Birds, orchids, walnuts, and more
28 January 2010
Borers, Camellias, starting seeds!
21 January 2010
Pruning, starting seeds, and more!
14 January 2010
Bareroot! Fruit trees, roses, and more
07 January 2010
Birds, bamboo, and your questions
Click here for shows and pictures prior to 2009
31 December 2009
All about pruning!
24 December 2009
All about Citrus!
17 December 2009
Your questions, birds, and more
10 December 2009
Freeze, December garden activities, and more
03 December 2009
Frost, perennial vegetables, and more
26 November 2009
Special show: all about bulbs!
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Featured Plants & Articles




Fall vegetable planting chart!
September 2, 2010

Ceratostigma plumbaginoides
Dwarf plumbago


Plumbago capensis
Cape plumbago


Lagerstroemia 'Dynamite'
Dynamite crapemyrtle showing color change due to cool nights
August 26, 2010


Rose foliage problems



Gardening for beneficials at a Napa vineyard


Solidago (goldenrod) with Aster
August 12, 2010



Amaryllis belladonna
aka Naked ladies


Crinum moorei
Natal lily
August 5, 2010




Utility service tree pruning!



Citrus leaves showing sunburn
July 15, 2010




Root knot nematode on tomato
Overview of nematode control
from NCAT

Slides from recent bamboo talk
(movie file)
July 1, 2010

Pincushion plant (house plant

Beneficial insects



Aphids under attack:
parasitized (left), and about to be eaten (below)!



Baby praying mantid

Gymnocalycium mihanovichii var. Friedrichiae hybrids
Chamaecereus silvestrii (yellow form), and others
Grafted cactus
June 10, 2010

Defining geraniums!


Pelargonium x hortorum
Common garden geranium


Pelargonium peltatum
Ivy geranium


Pelargonium peltatum
Ivy geranium in hanging basket


Pelargonium x domesticum
Pelargonium, Martha Washington geranium


Geranium himalayense x pratense
'Johnson's Blue'
Hunter ET brochure (pdf)
June 3, 2010

(We'll try to get to these next week!)


Baby praying mantid


Philadelphus
-- (double form) Mock orange
May 20, 2010




Leatherwing beetle, aka soldier beetle
Baldo Villegas web site pics of beneficial insects!



Vic's pepper: virus? weather?

(Vic's blog)



false katydid nymph

May 13, 2010



Carpenteria californica
California bush anemone
April 29, 2010

Tomato varieties brochure (pdf, 3.6MB)
April 22, 2010

California statewide weather data
April 15 2010



Rose 'The Imposter'



Clematis montana 'Mayleen'
Chart of perennial flowers by season of bloom
April 01 2010



Tree peony
March 25 2010: Eric's pictures



Citrus suckers: base of tree



Citrus suckers: trunk



Citrus suckers: branches
March 18 2010:



herbicide damage on roses
February 25 2010:

Article: Spotted Wing Drosophila


Spotted Wing Drosophila on a raspberry
February 18 2010:


Abutilon 'Glowbelle'



substance oozing from Beechey's bamboo
February 4 2010:


February Gold dwarf trumpet daffodil


Bergenia crassifolia


Helleborus orientalis
Lenten rose, pink strain


Helleborus orientalis
'Phoenix' Lenten rose
photo courtesy of Heronswood
January 28 2010:

Bellis  
English daisy


Chrysanthemum paludosum  
Paludosum daisy

Seedling start materials
and article
Jan. 21, 2010:
San Francisco Chronicle article: an artist's garden
December 17 2009:

Primula vulgaris English primrose

December 10 2009:

Protecting a lemon tree!

December 03 2009:

Senecio x hybridus Florists' cineraria


Florists' cineraria

Articles written by Don Shor
The UC Davis Arboretum!
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