L.A. Pierce College Horticulture Page

01/02/2026

WHO LOVES POPPIES!!!

Time for Planting California Poppies

December sowing gives poppies a head start for brilliant early-spring blooms.

🌼 Tips:

• Scatter seeds on top of soil
• Keep moist until rains start
• No fertilizer needed

🌱 MG Tip: Once established, poppies reseed and naturalize beautifully.

For more information about California Poppies, click here:

https://class.ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/FactSheet_Flower_California%20Poppy_2021.05.24.pdf



ucanr.edu/sites/RiversideMG

Photo credit: Pam Elias

01/02/2026

Wait to prune these most stone fruit

Do not prune apricots (and cherries) now.

While winter pruning is encouraged for most (stone & pome) fruit trees it is not ideal for apricots or cherries.

We encourage you to mark your calendar for apricot & cherry pruning in late summer.

"Apricots should be pruned in late August to allow time for the pruning wounds to close. This will help to prevent Eutypa fungus from invading the tree. Allow 6 weeks prior to the beginning of winter rains for wounds to close." http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/GARDEN/FRUIT/CULTURAL/apripruning.html

"Eutypa dieback, also known as Cytosporina, gummosis, and limb dieback, causes limbs or twigs to wilt and die suddenly in late spring or summer with the leaves still attached. Rough dark cankers may develop at pruning wounds. The bark has a dark discoloration with amber-colored gumming."

More info: http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/GARDEN/FRUIT/DISEASE/eutypadieback.html

01/02/2026

Food Grows Where Water Flows

01/02/2026

Love the desert 🏜

01/02/2026

Read our most helpful advice on starting plants from seed and taking care of seedlings, including how to transplant them.

01/02/2026

Love these! 🌻🌻🌻

01/02/2026

Way to go

Completed in under a year and below budget, the new crossing improves safety

01/02/2026

⏰ Happening TOMORROW! ⏰

🔧 Free Hand Tool Maintenance & Repair Workshop 🔧

Give your garden tools a second life! Join us tomorrow, Saturday, January 3, from 9 a.m. to noon for a hands-on workshop focused on sharpening, restoring, and maintaining hand tools.

✔️ Bring your favorite pruners, shovels, or old tools
✔️ Learn from experienced instructors
✔️ Free and first come, first served

📍 LandUse Learning Center
4500 Glenwood Dr., Riverside

👉 Register now: http://bit.ly/432UTFD

And don’t forget—our Master Gardeners will be on-site to answer your gardening questions!

12/12/2025

Experience the Santa Monica Bay! Heal the Bay’s public Marine-Education Center!

12/12/2025

👋🌿 Stop by and Say Hello! 🌿👋
We’ll be at the Lodi Sandhill Crane Festival with a booth full of fun, information, and ways to connect with the Cosumnes River Preserve. Come meet our team, learn about our work, and say hello — we’d love to see you! 💛

📍 Where: Hutchin Street Square Community Center - 125 S. Hutchins Street, Lodi, CA
📅 When: November 7th, 8th, and 9th

12/12/2025

12/12/2025

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