How to find growing tips
Here are resources for seasonal gardening advice: Wildflowers: To track the season, call the Theodore Payne Wildflower Hotline at (818) 768-3533 from March through May. www.theodorepayne.org.
Fruit trees: UC Davis has information for backyard growers at fruitsandnuts.ucdavis.edu.
Photoperiodism: John W. Kimball is a retired Harvard professor and author of seminal biology texts. As part of the Textbook Revolution project, he updates these books online in Kimball’s Biology Pages. For the link to his page on photoperiodism and the biological processes behind blooms, go to users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Photoperiodism.html.
— Emily Green
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