Davis Life Magazine

Every year on the first Sunday in May, hundreds of people turn out to view a few Davis gardens. The nineteenth annual Pence Gallery Garden Tour was held May 2, 2010, and I joined a crowd of garden lovers, arts supporters and curiosity driven oglers in making the rounds of the nine gardens presented this [...]

Clippings: Morningsun Herb Farm in Vacaville will host their 15th annual Open House Saturday, May 8 from 9-5. Sample delicious herbal treats and teas, learn about herbs at the many free talks and demonstrations, and peruse the garden market full of herbal vendors and educators. Morningsun Herb Farm offers more than 600 varieties of herbs, [...]

I’ve been a composter for quite a few years…piling much of my garden clippings and all of my vegetative kitchen scraps in a three sided bin and layering in leaves that I gather each fall and save for just this purpose. But I’ve always been what some would call a lazy composter…willing to wait for [...]

Those of us living and gardening in Davis are more fortunate than we may realize. We have a kind climate compared to many gardeners…snow is a rare, exciting event, we don’t have prolonged freezes, tornadoes, black flies, humidity…or any number of the trials and tribulations much of the country faces. We do have heat. Our [...]