Helping People Help Themselves
Master Gardeners are community members who have been trained under the direction of the University of California Cooperative Extension. Each volunteer has completed more than 50 hours of formal classroom training. Master Gardeners, agents of the University of California, assist the UC Cooperative Extension by providing practical, scientific gardening information to the home gardeners in the Lake Tahoe Basin.
The Lake Tahoe Master Gardeners extend research-based information by:
- offering workshops and classes
- answering questions via email hotlines, farmers markets and at community events
- publishing articles in newsletters, local newspapers and social media.
Newsletter & Event Updates
Would you like updates and information about Public Education Classes and Events from the UC Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe? Add your name to our newsletter and events update list to get the latest information.
Bug Blog
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Monarchs and California Golden Poppies: Color Them Orange
Monarchs and California golden poppies...Color them orange...Color them bold...Color them beautiful... And color them natives... The California golden poppy, Eschscholzia californica, California's state flower, is popping up all over, while...
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Lagoon Fly: Seeing Spots
Ever seen a lagoon fly? It's a syrphid fly, Eristalinus aeneus, distinguished by small black spots patterning its eyes. Syrphids, also known hoverflies or flower flies, hover over a flower before foraging....
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Ootheca! Ootheca! Ootheca!
If you've been pruning bushes or trees, check to see if a praying mantis egg case (ootheca) is attached to a limb. If you do, you're in luck! A mantis deposits her egg case in late summer or fall, and usually on twigs, stems, a wooden stake...
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Presenting: A Butterfly and a Fly
A gray butterfly and a fruit fly... Each has "fly" in its name but one is a member of the order Lepidoptera and the other, order Diptera. Etymology does not agree with entomology. Ever managed to photograph a butterfly and fruit...
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Today's Honorary Bee Image Award Goes to...a Fly
Today's Honorary Bee Image Award goes to...drum roll...an image of a humble hoverfly appearing on the National Geographic Facebook page. The caption reads "A bee sits on a marigold flower in Coronado National Forest, Arizona, USA." Bee? Umm,...