Events for May 19-26

Things to get you out and about in the next week include early morning bird-song walks, wine-tastings, a bonsai exhibition.

Maureen Gilmer: Welcome a new branch of olive

If you go back to the early days of our desert communities, certain trees were always planted. The first olive trees came from local orchards that were no longer commercially viable. The olive trees were dug up and moved to the desert as bare root, just as we move the date palms from Indio orchards into new development landscaping.

Master Gardeners | What to do in your May garden

"I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden." A special thanks to all of you who came to our Master Gardener Plant Sale last weekend and helped make it such a huge success.

Local home and garden calendar

Send your home and garden news to homeandgarden@thestate.com

Garden Calendar: Things to do and learn

Special events, classes, workshops and meetings happening this week.