The towering silverleaf maples, oaks and coastal redwoods that frame Jo An Loop’s backyard have a special meaning to her. She and her husband planted them when they moved into th ...
John Fracchia is known around Antelope Creek Elementary as the “garden dad.”
He took it upon himself to revamp the school garden that had gone abandoned for years and turned i ...
Valley View had some added help to spruce up the campus last Thursday. The elementary school held its first Dad’s Volunteer Day, bringing fathers back to school for a morning ...
By Elaine Applebaum
Placer County Master Gardener
Question: Is there anything I can do to increase the number of ladybugs, praying mantids and other “good bugs” in my yard?
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The foothills’ rainless summers are perfectly comfortable for many native plants once established.
And where native plants flourish, hummingbirds, among many creatures, find op ...
With splashes of vibrant magentas, deep greens and blues, Ruben and Virginia Carrillo’s Granite Bay backyard is a garden lover’s paradise.
Any time of the year, trees through ...
