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Articles, Awards and Advice

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: A ripe time to pick watermelon
  Alan Uchida of Bellefontaine Nursery gives three methods for picking a ripe watermelon.

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Pick the appropriate plant to match soil and design
  Alan answers a question about the horsetail reed, and offers some advice for ailing eggplants.

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Why figs are a good choice to espalier
  Alan provides answers and insight about espaliering fig trees.

• L.A. TIMES SoCal Garden Clinic: How to keep gazanias blooming?
  Alan Uchida gives advice on how to keep gazanias flowering and not "looking like sad weeds."

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Nutgrass Forum
  Bellefontaine's own Alan Uchida weighs in on the nutgrass issue, offering valuable counterpoint.

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Raccoons digging up new sod?
  Ever had raccoon dig up your lawn? Melanie Polinger of Manhattan Beach is feeling your pain. For an answer, the Times turned to Alan Uchida, a third-generation nurseryman at Bellefontaine Nursery.

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Dying Italian cypress trees
  For an answer they turned to Alan Uchida, nurseryman at Bellefontaine Nursery. Read on!

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Mistletoe: A kiss of death for your garden's trees?
  Alan Uchida on Mistletoe: Mistletoe may symbolize love and prompt a kiss, but what if it's killing your trees?

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Brown leaves on Japanese maples
  The L.A. Times turned to Alan Uchida of Bellefontaine Nursery. His answer: Japanese maples can get brown leaves, especially in hot Southern California. Salts in the soil; dry, windy conditions; and watering methods all play a factor. (more)

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: Lilacs
  The L.A. Times turned to Alan Uchida of Bellefontaine Nursery. His answer: Lilacs are wonderful performers in the Southland and can deliver fragrant blooms, even without an East Coast chill. (more)

• LOS ANGELES TIMES Garden Clinic: When to buy and plant Freesias
  The L.A. Times turned to Alan Uchida of Bellefontaine Nursery. His answer: Freesia bulbs are actually thick underground stems called corms. They are best planted in the fall. (more)
   

AWARDS
 

PASADENA WEEKLY: Best of Pasadena 2015
Best Nursery of Pasadena... and for the fourth year in a row. We are so appreciative that you think so much of us! Thank you, Pasadena, we won't let you down!

PASADENA WEEKLY: Best of Pasadena 2014
Monotonous? NO! We love being voted Best Local Nursery of Pasadena... and this is the third year in a row! Thank you, Pasadena!

PASADENA WEEKLY: Best of Pasadena 2013
We were voted Best Local Nursery for the second year in a row! Thank you, Pasadena!

PASADENA WEEKLY: Best of Pasadena 2012
Scroll down and catch a glowing review! We are proud to be called a "Treasure In Our Midst!"

L.A. WEEKLY: Best Of Award 2011
Bellefontaine Nursery garners an important award, inspiring journalist Adam Gropman to wax philosophic. We were voted Best Family-Owned Nursery as a Tale of the American Dream. We are proud to think they created that category just for us!