Vine Training and Garden Maintenance Tips for Seasonal Care
The article offers practical gardening guidance for vine training and yard upkeep. It covers pinching off growth, securing bougainvillea around trellises, pulling weeds with hoeing to prevent future problems, dividing hens and chicks plants, using pyracantha sprigs as indoor decoration, and decorating with pine boughs. It also advises watering bulbs during active growth, spraying for thrips on sporaxis and freezias due to unseasonal heat, inspecting shrubs for scale and treating with oils or pesticides, painting large cuts with grafting wax to prevent rot, avoiding planting trees under wires, toping tall trees, staking dormant plants, and avoiding planting near sewer lines to prevent root intrusion.
New Roses Top Holiday Gift Offers 1957 Roses
New Roses Tops As Yule Presents introduces Rosez Zor 1957 varieties. Nurseries stock bare root plants ready for holiday planting. Hybrid tea Midnight debuts with dark red blooms and spicy fragrance. Midnight is vigorous, mildew resistant, and blooms prolifically.
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Pardener
Rosez Zor
Farmland Shares Over Five Percent of Kansas Economy
A report notes that more than five percent of Kansas' economy is tied to farmland. The statistic highlights agriculture's impact on state output and rural communities.
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Kansas
Garden Gadgets For Joyful Gifts
Garden gadgets make perfect Christmas gifts for the green thumb. Hose attachments spray pumps and hand tools along with planters and containers please gardeners, while practical fertilizers and mulches suit the season. Check local nurseries for books on gardening and California native flora to complement the gifts. An average bathtub requires about 45 gallons of water to fill.
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Good Housekeeping
California
Pine Best For Gnarled Look In Bonsai Series
The article explains bonsai basics focusing on pine as ideal for twisted and gnarled forms. It covers choosing species, pot styles, seed sourcing, starter plants, container colors, soil mixes, and repotting schedules for conifers and deciduous varieties.
Ideal Gift: Build a Child Sized Table and Stools
DIY guide details assembling a sturdy table and four stools sized for children. Includes cutting, mounting blocks, flanges, screws, shaping edges, smoothing corners, pilot drilling, and painting in contrasting colors. Mentions quick assembly, weekend project pace, and a note on peach spraying.
Garden tips for holiday season and pruning guide
The text lists festive holly and red-berried plants at peak including Pyracartha and Burford holly plus Azaleas Rhododendrons Camellias Rosés and Daphne as suggested gifts. It notes garden tools like spray guns pruners and power equipment and advises pruning roses and fruit trees now.
Area Garden Clubs elect officers at festive meeting
Garden club members elected Roy MacClure as president and Charles Brown as vice president, with Susan Lacey as secretary and Aan Berg as treasurer during a December gathering after a turkey dinner at Hayward High School. The group plans January installations at Blanche Tornquist-Dee’s Lewelling Boulevard home for a potluck and gift exchange, while East Bay Branch of the American Gesneria Society cancels December meeting and resumes January 22 at McKinley School. An Edison guest speaker on African violets is slated for the new year’s first meeting. the National Herb Study Society hosts a Christmas dinner tonight at Sanborn Park clubhouse for members and families.
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Hayward
Roy, MacClure
Apresident
William T. Roeber
Charles Brown
Susan “Lacey
Berg
Baynard
Eden Garden Club
Bay
American Gesneria Society
McKinley School
E. 14Th Street
E. E. Hammond
Irvingston
Hammond
Sanborn Park
D. G. ‘Reeves
Adele
L. Padbury
Hilduy' Archiald
Bernardine E. Allen
E. Richardson
Nellie Schorer
Ann Barney
Practical Plants: Succulents Make Easy Gift Pot Plants
Succulents offer attractive, practical choices for home or office decor. They require little care and light, store water in their leaves, and stay decorative when slightly root-bound. For repotting, trim roots and replant in the same or a slightly larger pot to maintain shape and slow growth.
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Ralph Harrington
Fontaine
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