Mums fill bare spots with colorful autumn blooms
The article praises chrysanthemum as a quick spot filler for gardens. It notes mums thrive in warm weather if kept moist and can be transplanted from pots into beds or left in containers. Watering is essential, and cutting back after flowering helps replanting for fall color.
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Dorothy Bayliss
Backyard gardener Lowly spud can be big threat
The article extols home grown potatoes as superior to store bought, detailing harvest tips from seed selection to storage. It covers soil prep, crop rotation, seed quality, planting depth, spacing, hilling, pest control, watering, and careful harvesting to avoid green tubers and ensure nutrition.
Garden guidance and plant questions from BULZBERTOLERO column
Readers seek Koelreuteria Henryi sources and frost damage notes from 1972. The column discusses tulip vs daffodil care, bulb life cycles, and mint removal using weed killer applied to leaves with repeat treatments. Editor invites garden questions via postal address.
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Bay Area
Los Angeles
Fire Threatens Expensive Homes Near Los Angeles Hills
Two brush fires charred 60 acres and threatened several expensive homes in hillside suburbs east of Los Angeles Thursday afternoon and evening. The larger blaze blackened 2 acres in Covina near the campus of Cal Poly Pomona.
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Los Angeles
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Covina
Cal Poly Pomona
July Garden Club Calendar activities noted across East Bay
A July schedule lists numerous garden and plant society meetings in the East Bay. Diamond Garden Club meets at Fruitvale Presbyterian Church Oakland. Camellia Society gathers at Claremont Junior High. East Bay Dahlia Society and Orchid Society meet Lakeside Park Garden Center. Fuchsia, Begonia, Bonsai, Chrysanthemum, Iris and African Violet groups hold events at various Oakland Alameda San Leandro venues. several clubs host picnics, lectures, and club-house gatherings across Walnut Creek Fremont Castro Valley and Richmond with multiple timings and locations.
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Diamond Garden Club
Fruitvale Presbyterian Church
MacArthur Blvd
East Oakland
Northern California
Camellia Society
Claremont Junior High School
Gullaini
East Bay Dahlia Society
Vista
Lakeside
Park Garden Center
Bellevuevue Ave
Oakland & Eden Branch
American Furshia Suety
First Baptist Church
Bancroft Ave
San Leandro
County Floral Society
Lakeside Park Garden Center
Bellevue Ave
Oakland
Furshia Shaw
Southlanders Branch
American Fueshia Society
Fremont
Cactus and Succulent Society of California
East Bay
Bonsai Society
East Hay Branch
American Begonia Society
Williard School
Stuart St
Naffodi Society
Caxeside Park Garden Center
Herb Study Club
San Lorenzo Fuchsia Society
Bob Morris Garden
Tiburon Rd
Northern California Chrysanthemum Society
the Valley School
the Valley Road
Walnut Creek
Hast Bay
Sunburn Park
Fruitvale Ave
Las
Alameda
American Fuchsia Society
Wood School Library
Grand Street
San Leandro Garden
Orchid Society of California
Sailboat House
Lakeside Park
San Leandro Datilia Society
McKinley School
African Violet Society
Pacific Coast
American Hododendrin Society
Heney J. Kaiste School
South Hill Court
Sydney B. Mitchell Iris Society
Lakeside Park Center
San Lorenad
Puchsia Society
Monterey
Antonelli
Richmond
Southftnders
America
Leona Heights
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