Fall tea at Shepard Center also features show and sale of hand-painted items
The Camellia City Porcelain Artists host their annual show Saturday and Sunday. It's a busy weekend for Sacramento groups. Photo courtesy Camellia City Porcelain Artists
It’s a Sacramento fall tradition that comes with something extra: A beautiful tea service.
This weekend, the Camellia City Porcelain Artists will host its 31st annual show and fall tea at Shepard Garden and Arts Center. Admission and parking are free.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8 and 9, patrons are invited to sip tea, enjoy snacks and browse the show, packed with beautifully hand-painted creations.
“Enjoy complimentary snacks and drinks while viewing the art of traditional and creative works of hand-painted porcelain pieces from local artists,” say the organizers. “Christmas Tree raffle to benefit the Sacramento Zoo, hand-painted china for purchase and much more!”
Interested in learning about ceramics and porcelain painting? This is the place.
“You want porcelain? We’ve got plenty,” says the club. “Our sales table helps support our club and keeps this wonderful art alive and well.”
Shepard Center is located at 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento, in McKinley Park.
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Bonus events! So much great garden activity around the region this weekend that we wanted to include these:
-- Plant sale Saturday at the Luther Burbank High School's Burbank Urban Garden (aka BUG) to support the program. The high school's on-site 1-acre farm will offer cool-season organic vegetables for sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Prices are $4 for 4-inch pots and $8 for 4-packs. Vegetables include lettuce, spinach, arugula, chard, peas, pak choy, collard greens, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, scallions, leeks and onions. Flowers include nasturtiums, alyssum and violas. All plants raised by the Urban Agriculture Academy students. BUG is located in the back portion of LBHS, which is at 3500 Florin Road, Sacramento. https://www.facebook.com/BurbankUrbanGarden
-- Monarchs and Milkweeds workshop, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Loomis Library. Free; no registration is required. Learn about monarch butterflies and their host plant, milkweed. Learn what a host plant is and how to invite monarchs into your yard. Free seeds and hints for growing your own monarch oasis are available. Loomis Library, 6050 Library Drive, Loomis. Parking is free. Presented by the Placer County master gardeners. For more information: https://pcmg.ucanr.org/?calitem=539988&g=131834
-- Ornamental grasses workshop, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, at the Sherwood Demonstration Garden, 6699 Campus Drive, Placerville.
El Dorado County master gardener Sue McDavid will how to incorporate ornamental grasses into a landscape. Most grasses need very little care and, in fact, thrive on neglect, so they are perfect for even novice gardeners. As a bonus, enjoy the various Sherwood garden areas during the Open Garden Day. https://mgeldorado.ucanr.edu/
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Make the most of the lower temperatures early in the week. We’ll be back in the 80s by Thursday.
* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. Time to set out those tomato transplants along with peppers and eggplants. Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.
* Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins and annual herbs such as basil.
* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.
* In the flower garden, direct-seed sunflowers, cosmos, salvia, zinnias, marigolds, celosia and asters. (You also can transplant seedlings for many of the same flowers.)
* Plant dahlia tubers.
* Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.
* Keep an eye out for slugs, snails, earwigs and aphids that want to dine on tender new growth.
* Feed summer bloomers with a balanced fertilizer.
* For continued bloom, cut off spent flowers on roses as well as other flowering plants.
* Add mulch to the garden to maintain moisture. Mulch also cuts down on weeds. But don’t let it mound around the stems or trunks of trees or shrubs. Leave about a 6-inch-to-1-foot circle to avoid crown rot or other problems.
* Remember to weed! Pull those nasties before they set seed.
* Water early in the day and keep seedlings evenly moist.
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