Find unique gifts as well as bargains on houseplants and succulents
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Plants will be on special during the Winter Craft Faire
hosted by Exotic Plants. (Photo courtesy Exotic Plants)
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Do you have plant lovers on your gift list? Or folks who appreciate something handmade?
Get your last-minute shopping done Saturday during a Winter Craft Faire.
Hosted by Exotic Plants, the Winter Craft Faire will feature unique gift items from several local craftspeople and artisans. Admission and parking are free.
In addition, the gardening store will offer a great deal on plants: Buy one plant, get a second at 50% off (in store only). The store has a huge selection of orchids, houseplants and succulents.
The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 18, in Exotic Plants’ parking lot, 1525 Fulton Ave., Sacramento.
Need more information? Call 916-922-4769.
Details and directions: www.exoticplantsltd.com .
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November still offers good weather for fall planting:
* If you haven't already, it's time to clean up the remains of summer. Pull faded annuals and vegetables. Prune dead or broken branches from trees.
* Now is the best time to plant most trees and shrubs. This gives them plenty of time for root development before spring growth. They also benefit from fall and winter rains.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Keep planting bulbs to spread out your spring bloom. Some possible suggestions: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips, anemones and scillas.
* This is also a good time to seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Rake and compost leaves, but dispose of any diseased plant material. For example, if peach and nectarine trees showed signs of leaf curl this year, clean up under trees and dispose of those leaves instead of composting.
* Save dry stalks and seedpods from poppies and coneflowers for fall bouquets and holiday decorating.
* For holiday blooms indoors, plant paperwhite narcissus bulbs now. Fill a shallow bowl or dish with 2 inches of rocks or pebbles. Place bulbs in the dish with the root end nestled in the rocks. Add water until it just touches the bottom of the bulbs. Place the dish in a sunny window. Add water as needed.
* Give your azaleas, gardenias and camellias a boost with chelated iron.
* For larger blooms, pinch off some camellia buds.
* Prune non-flowering trees and shrubs while dormant.
* To help prevent leaf curl, apply a copper fungicide spray to peach and nectarine trees after they lose their leaves this month. Leaf curl, which shows up in the spring, is caused by a fungus that winters as spores on the limbs and around the tree in fallen leaves. Sprays are most effective now.
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