Do you want to grow roses in your landscape? If you want to know which rose varieties have been successful in our hot desert climate and how to plant and manage them correctly, attend the annual South ...

When the leaves on your cherry tree start turning colorful in the fall, you might think your gardening responsibilities are over for the season. In fact, the period between the end of the harvest ...

A lot of trees and plants are suffering because of the extreme, prolonged heat and drought conditions, agriculture specialists say. "We're seeing mature trees, and especially recently planted trees, ...

Recently a kind and generous neighbor placed a few pots of brilliant red geraniums and sparkling white alyssum on my patio and said, “You need to deep water them.” I looked at one of the shallow clay ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – In this drought, we are getting our lawns go brown by shutting up off the sprinklers. But how can we keep our trees healthy? Deep root watering is one of those ways. Watering with ...

Mature landscape trees are some of the Valley’s greatest assets. In our hot, dry climate with higher levels of dust and pollution in our air, the leaves, needles and fronds on large healthy trees ...

Q: Our roots are firmly planted in old East Sacramento, where many new trees have been planted when mature, sickly Modesto ash trees were lost. Can our younger trees survive the summer months with ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. Tree root systems are seldom on the minds of forest owners, tree planters, ...