Baker's Nurseries

Getting into the weeds on how to prep soil for gardening

Our minds and shovels are ready for full throttle outdoor planting — but is your soil ready?

Why Your Garden Needs Mulch (Assuming You Do It Right)

Used correctly, mulch builds and improves your soil like nothing else. But don’t make these common mistakes.

10 Reasons to Love a Tiny Garden

Small outdoor spaces can have a beauty all their own

The 16 nurseries Oregon gardeners simply must visit

There are so many stellar nurseries that we can’t possibly name them all. These are our favorites.

Photos: The Barn Nursery is more than plants, gardening supplies

Barn Nursery leaders recently started ramping up their social media efforts with Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter accounts.

Irrigation Systems and Practices in Mid-Atlantic Nurseries

Nursery and greenhouse producers across the U.S. have become increasingly more aware of the importance of water use efficiency, prompted perhaps by water quality concerns ...

Children enjoy meat free meals as more nurseries go vegetarian

Nurseries across the UK are adapting to the changing lifestyles and requirements of the families who use them. With the threat of childhood obesity, diabetes and tooth decay facing families across the UK, many are taking steps to make their lifestyles and diets healthier with some opting to exclude some food groups, eat ‘clean’ or …

Oregon's nurseries use bug-on-bug tactics to protect high-value plants

It's warfare at the magnifying-glass level. Nursery workers deploy predators by shaking them from trays or from plastic jugs that can hold up to 25,000 bugs. Some simply spread out and start eating. Others are like bizarre special ops forces.

Cal Poly breeds parasitic wasps to battle disease that kills citrus trees

Also, Loma Linda University School of Nursing has signed a transfer agreement with Mt. San Jacinto College and a La Verne professor is focusing on climate change.

GPS Tracking for Wholesale Nurseries and Greenhouses

Nurseries and wholesale greenhouses deliver the goods to consumers and local landscaping businesses each year. Your drivers spend a lot of time on the road and you invest quite a bit of money in ke…

Learn to read a nursery plant tag

FALLBROOK - Shopping for new plants for a home can be an exciting undertaking. Nurseries and garden centers are often home to dozens of types of plant species that come in various colors, leaf variations and sizes. Such variety can make choosing plants more fun while also making the process of buying plants a bit complicated, especially for novices...

Design Reveal: Gender Neutral Nursery in Green

I just finished a nursery for a dear friend of mine. She was having her first child and wanted to create a room that would not only work for her first baby but one that could also work for the next. Boy or girl, she wanted her nursery to be able to grow with her family. She chose creams and

Plastics outnumber baby fish 7-to-1 in some coastal nurseries

Ocean slicks serve as calm, food-rich nurseries for larval fish. A new study shows that slicks also accumulate plastics, which get eaten by baby fish.

Abuse bougainvilleas for really showy plants

Tree nurseries impacted by drought

With agriculture the number-one industry in the Valley, the effects of this worsening drought are far reaching. Local nurseries which supply fruit and nut trees to growers have been impacted.