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Grass Valley couple open spectacular garden to public

Buena Vista Flower Garden welcomes visitors in May and June

Sacramento Digs Gardening
BY Debbie Arrington PUBLISHED APR 30, 2021

This inviting view is at Buena Vista Flower Garden in Grass Valley. (Photos courtesy LeRoy Hall)

LeRoy and Sally Hall turned their home in Grass Valley into a shady sanctuary, full of flowers. More than an acre is fully landscaped with hundreds of blooming shrubs and perennials.

The couple named their place “Buena Vista Flower Garden.” And this spring, the Halls are sharing that spectacle with anyone who wants to make the drive.

“We are opening our flower garden for visitors to tour our landscaped one-acre garden,” LeRoy Hall said. “Hundreds of flowering sun- and shade-loving plants, shrubs and trees including roses, azaleas, rhododendrons, peonies, camellias, hydrangeas, etc. All viewed from our sidewalks, paths and stepping stones.”

Buena Vista will be open to visitors 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays in May and June, the months when the garden is at its best.

Best of all: Admission is free. There are more than a mile of paths through the garden. The Halls request that COVID protocol (masks and social distancing) be followed, and no dogs please.

In recent years, the Halls have shared their garden as part of the Soroptomists’ annual spring tour.

“With this crazy COVID year we've had, this will be the second year the Soroptomists have canceled their yearly garden tour and it appears that others have put their tours on hold,” Hall said.

It would be a shame not to share just a spectacular spring garden, so the Halls decided to hold their own one-stop tour two days a week.

Rhododendrons are part of the spectacular display.

“Lots of the 200 azaleas are getting started or going strong and the sun azaleas are spectacular this year,” Hall said. “The rhodies – about 100 of them -- are just getting started. And the lupine, columbine, foxgloves and peonies are getting ready to pop”

The Halls also have more than 250 roses, which will be putting on their best show later in May.

Among the regular visitors to the Halls’ property: Deer. The couple have figured out how to coexist with wildlife with beautiful results.

Buena Vista Flower Garden is located at 14013 Meadow View Drive, Grass Valley.

For details or directions, email the Halls at leroy1sally2@att.net .

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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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