Find spring inspiration at these special weekend events
This lush Folsom garden featuring Japanese maples is part of the 2023 Folsom Garden Tour. Photo courtesy Folsom Garden Club
So many flowers! So much to see! Get out this weekend and enjoy spring inspiration as several local clubs, organizations and businesses hold special events. Here are two more:
Folsom Garden Club Tour
The Folsom Garden Club presents its 21st garden tour, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 29 and 30, rain or shine or 90-degree heat. Known as a “local legend” in Folsom, this tour features seven gardens plus two bonus gardens.
Garden experts will be onsite and artists will be painting in the gardens. The tour also features a plant sale, bake sale and food truck, too.
“The annual Garden Tour is our major fundraising activity,” say the organizers. Proceeds benefit college scholarships, grants and community projects.
Tickets $20, are available online, or at several nurseries and retailers in Folsom.
Details and tickets: https://www.folsomgarden.org/ or 916-205-3720.
Spring Garden Faire
Saturday and Sunday, the Secret Garden in Elk Grove hosts its annual Spring Garden Faire featuring everything you need to get growing – at 15% off. The Secret Garden offers a great selection of succulents, cacti, vegetables, perennials, houseplants and more plus wonderful pottery for container gardens. Find discounts on water features and garden art, too.
Children’s activities will be offered both days. On Sunday, there will be two free seminars: Composting at 11 a.m.; and epiphyllum (orchid cactus) how-to’s at 2 p.m.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Admission and parking are free.
Details: https://www.secretgarden-online.com/.
Also this weekend are: the 75th annual Sacramento Rose Show (Saturday only), the 74th Sacramento Orchid Show (both days), 10th annual Gardens Gone Native Tour (Saturday only), the UC Davis Arborteum Public Plant Sale (Saturday only) and the El Dorado Master Gardeners ornamental plant sale (Saturday only).
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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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