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Posts Tagged: drought
Hot Weather Tips for the Summer Garden
This week much of California is under a heat advisory or excessive heat warning, with high...
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Most Californians don't have a desert landscape designed to withstand the limited water and high temps like the desert garden display at the UC Santa Cruz botanical garden. (Credit: Lauren Snowden)
Mulch is a beautiful compliment to your landscape - not only is it aesthetic but it provides a valuable service to your soil.
An important part of gardening is planning for activities in the garden for future months. When the temperatures are too hot to spend outdoors, you can always start to develop a garden or planting plan. (Credit: Melissa Womack)
Landscape Tree Damage: It's Not Always a Pest Issue
[From the Spring issue of the UC IPM Retail Nursery & Garden Center News] Most disorders...
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Fig 1. Limb dieback and sparse canopy of overwatered olive trees around which turf was planted. Unirrigated trees in the background are healthy. (Photo: L. R. Costello, UCCE)
Fig 2. Mechanical injury to the trunk of a young tree. A planting stake tie was attached too tightly and left on too long, girdling the trunk. (Photo: L. R. Costello, UCCE)
Fig 3. Chlorotic leaves with necrotic margins and tips, especially severe on older foliage of European hackberry, due to root exposure to excess salinity. (Photo: Hortscience, Inc.)
Pine Tree Pests
This time of year, deciduous trees go dormant, and evergreen trees such as pine are more visible in...
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Round swellings on pine terminals infected by western gall rust. (Arthur H. McCain)
Engraver beetle holes and sap. (Jack Kelly Clark)
Sudden Oak Death Moving to Urban Areas; 3 Steps to Protect Oaks
Drought is decreasing but not defeating the pathogen that causes sudden oak death, according to a...
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Doug Schmidt, standing, and Matteo Garbeletto examine a bay laurel on the UC Berkeley campus.
These bay laurel leaves show P. ramorum symptoms.
The SODMap mobile app shows a map of sampled trees.
California drought may be causing shifts in pest behavior
![Male and female adult oriental cockroaches [UC IPM]](http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCIPMurbanpests//blogfiles/32142small.jpg "Male and female adult oriental cockroaches [UC IPM]")
This summer, the media frequently reported an increase in the density of pests in the home and...
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Male and female adult oriental cockroaches [UC IPM]
Adult argentine ant [UC IPM]
Adult house mouse [UC IPM]
