BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//University of California\, Berkeley//UCB Events Calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 DTSTART:19701029T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:19700402T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20090902T221418Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121201T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121201T120000 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:Sick Plant Clinic RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SA;UNTIL=20151205T120000 UID:22107-ucb-events-calendar@berkeley.edu ORGANIZER;CN="UC Berkeley Calendar Network": LOCATION:Botanical Garden DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Raabe for his monthly Sick Plant Clinic and find out which diseases ail your plants. Entomologists are also available to identify the pests that are living in your plants too! Please cover plants and disease samples in containers or bags before entering the Garden.\n\nBERKELEY CLINIC DIAGNOSES RESIDENTS' PLANTS\nLauren Reed-Guy\, Chronicle Staff Writer\nSan Francisco Chronicle June 29\, 2011 04:00 AM Copyright San Francisco Chronicle. All rights reserved. \n\nWhen he walked through the doors of the clinic\, Oakland resident Bob Rogers was unaware that his Himalayan cypresses' days were numbered.\n\nThough he'd already received a diagnosis of a beetle infestation from another plant expert\, Rogers decided to bring bark and leaf samples up to the monthly sick plant clinic at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden for a second opinion.\n\nWith microscopes and a stack of gardening and insect books for support\, the plant experts took a close look at the sample and photos Rogers brought with him.\n\nThe prognosis was bleak. While the two 80-year-old trees in Rogers' backyard were indeed suffering from longhorn beetles\, they were a symptom of the trees' waning health\, not the cause. The panel of five plant experts told him there was little he could do\, as his trees' life spans had likely been cut short living outside their native habitat.\n\nBay Area residents have brought their ailing plants to the sick plant clinic for more than 30 years now for diagnosis by a team of volunteer plant pathologists and entomologists from UC Berkeley and regional parks groups as well as private plant consultants.\n\nRead the rest of the article at: Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/2/DDH31JQ8A6.DTL#ixzz1RLMhnZ8E\n\nThis article appeared on page E - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle URL:http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/pubaff.html?event_ID=22107&view=preview SEQUENCE:0 CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20090902T221418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20121126T212525Z X-UCBCN-ADMISSION:Registration Not Required: Free \nRegistration Info: by calling 510-643-2755 ext. 03 or by emailing garden@berkeley.edu X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1 X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:-1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR