Placer County master gardeners offer free water-wise workshop at new demonstration garden
Coneflowers and other water-wise plants not only create a thriving, colorful landscape in summer but also attract pollinators. Debbie Arrington
You want a colorful flower-filled garden – but can you save water, too?
Yes! That’s the emphatic answer from the Placer County master gardeners. They’ll show how during a special in-person workshop at their new demonstration garden at Loomis Library.
At 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 8, the master gardeners will present “Colorful Low-Water Plants,” a free workshop at the Loomis Library. The public is welcome to attend.
“Learn how to positively impact both humans plus pollinators by selecting low-water plants, placing them together in low water zones, plus irrigating with low-water amounts of water!” say the master gardeners.
No advance registration is necessary. The master gardeners will share advice on choosing the right low-water plants for your landscape as well as grouping plants according to sun and water needs. Also learn how to properly irrigate these unthirsty plants and keep them thriving through the long hot summer.
Loomis Library is located at 6050 Library Drive, Loomis.
Details and directions: https://pcmg.ucanr.edu/.
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Garden Checklist for week of Nov. 3
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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