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Winter Seed Sowing Class

Join our Master Gardeners for a Winter Seed Sowing class! More information is available in the flyer below. Please register …

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Wait…Roundup Is No Longer Roundup?

Perhaps you missed it? Back in July, the commercials that once plagued our evening television commercial space stopped. Have …

This picture shows S. truncata on the right and S. russelliana on the left, both in flower. Photo by Gene Fox.

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Fire ant mound with bait places around the mound. Photo by Gene Fox

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