Green Acres Garden Blog

Start your own backyard orchard this season. Our nurseries have over 60 varieties of bareroot fruit trees this season. The trees are potted in easy-to-plant fiber (pulp) containers that help protect new roots so they don't break or dry out.

There is something very satisfying about planting a tree and nurturing it to produce delicious, fresh fruit. We all want fruit trees that thrive and provide enough fruit to share with family, friends, and the entire neighborhood—and the way in which we water, fertilize, prune, and thin will influence how much the tree produces each year. Read on for tips.

Now that your fruit trees are producing fruit, you may have similar questions to some that we've received from customers. For this fruit tree Q&A, we consulted with our garden gurus, for solutions and provided their advice, about specific fruiting issues, along with some about general care.

Now that fruit trees are starting to produce fruit, we're getting questions. Our garden gurus have some advice for fruit tree growers in our area. Part I of our Fruit Tree Q&A series answers customer questions about pests and disease. 

Welcome to Part III in our series about basic landscape shrubs. Read on and learn about some of the top-performing shrubs for our area. We've matched them with companions so you can pick the ones you like to personalize your landscape design.

Taking its cue from the coastal areas of Spain, Italy, and France, the Mediterranean gardening style combines plants that provide texture, color, and structure, alongside more formal accents. Here are a few of our suggested plants for Mediterranean landscape that saves on water.

Welcome to our series about basic landscape shrubs for the Sacramento region. We've selected some of our top shrub picks that perform well in our area year-round—and then matched them with companion options that will help you personalize your landscape design.