Popular Sacramento tradition returns, benefits David Lubin School
Expect to see gorgeous gardens in bloom as well as stunning homes during the East Sac Garden Tour this Saturday and Sunday. Kathy Morrison
A beloved Mother’s Day weekend tradition returns to East Sacramento. Besides a look inside private homes and gardens, it also provides a chance to get distinctly Sacramento Mother’s Day gifts.
On Saturday and Sunday, May 13 and 14, hundreds of patrons will be strolling the neighborhood near David Lubin Elementary School as part of the annual East Sac Garden Tour.
Stunning homes and gardens will be open to visitors with each house packed with spring inspiration.
This year, this popular tour will bring back its Wine Garden and Raffle event at Sutter Lawn Tennis Club, too. (That’s a separate ticket and open to patrons age 21 and up; children and youth may enter the Wine Garden if accompanied by a ticket-holding adult.)
Another big draw for this tour is open free to the public: The boutique, cafe and art show held at David Lubin School. The boutique will feature about 30 local businesses and entrepreneurs specializing in made-in-Sacramento goods. The cafe boasts four local food trucks, too.
Tour tickets ($20) are available in advance online and at a few retailers including: East Sacramento Hardware, Talini’s Nursery, Summer Porch and The Kitchen Table. On tour day, tickets will be sold at David Lubin School, 3535 M St., Sacramento. Children age 12 and younger admitted free.
Wine Garden tickets are $15 and available online in advance or at the school on tour weekend.
Tour and boutique hours are 10 a.m to 4 p.m. both days. All proceeds directly benefit students at David Lubin School including music, art and STEAM programs.
Details and tickets: https://www.eastsacgardentour.com/
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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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