Under the Solano Sun

Hello fellow master gardeners. This is my debut blog for Under the Solano Sun, and I hope to write about common plants we may have or get asked about as Master Gardeners.

Recently my husband brought home a bee barn to aid in our quest for attracting pollinators to our garden. We are hoping that some bees will take up residency in this barn, but I am not sure what to expect.

Nothoscordum gracile, commonly known as slender false garlic or thedevil bulb, truly deserves its latter name as it attempts to take over my back yard. Nothoscordum gracile is somewhat similar to a wild onion in that it has long, narrow leaves and little white flowers.

We all know about birthstones. But for all, you trivia fans, do you know about birth flowers? There is a flower assigned to each month, and supposedly individuals inherit the characteristics of the flower assigned to their birth month.

We recently received an invitation to submit photos from the past 40 years of California Master Gardener program activities. These photos will be compiled into a visual history, of sorts, showing the evolution of the MG programs. I began to wonder about how the program got started.