Find out how to transform houseplants into living art at Green Acres in Elk Grove
These dwarf umbrella trees, aka scheffleras, are of the plants that can become bonsai during a workshop Saturday at the Elk Grove Green Acres store. Kathy Morrison
Learn the basic techniques of bonsai during a beginner’s class at Green Acres Nursery & Supply’s Elk Grove store on Saturday, Nov. 9.
Set for 10 a.m. Saturday, “Bonsai 101” will introduce the concepts and skills of this age-old gardening skill. Through thoughtful pruning and root constriction, plants that would grow several feet tall can be artfully kept small and tidy for years, even decades – while displaying their mature form in miniature.
For this class, participants can choose from three different indoor plants – Ming aralia (aka Polyscias fruticosa), Ficus benjamina (weeping fig) or Schefflera (umbrella tree). The workshop includes a 6-inch specimen plant plus potting material, 10-inch bonsai pot, soil, moss, decorative rock and a must-have tool, curved razor snips.
“Our experienced garden gurus will lead you through the process of potting and pruning an indoor bonsai plant,” says Green Acres. “Whether you come as a novice or expert, you’ll leave with the tools and knowledge to tend and shape your bonsai into a beautiful piece of art as it ages.”
Course fee is $55 and the workshop is limited to 20 participants. Sign up here:
https://idiggreenacres.com/products/create-class-elk-grove
Green Acres’ Elk Grove store is located at 9220 E. Stockton Blvd., Elk Grove.
For directions and more details: https://idiggreenacres.com/
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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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