Pruning Roses Tips From January Lime Advice
January Lime offers pruning guidance for roses stressing midwinter cuts to spur spring blooms. It recommends removing dead wood and suckers, trimming crossing branches, and replacing old canes with new growth to encourage a balance of bloom size and quantity.
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Ferns Bring Delicate Greenery To Homes and Gardens
Lush ferns add refinement with rugged grace, ideal for shaded indoor and outdoor spaces. Local nurseries offer many varieties for home displays, containers, or garden borders, including sword, holly, and tree ferns. Asparagus ferns and maidenhair varieties also rise in popularity for hanging baskets and decorative groupings.
Winter Bedding Colors Brighten California Gardens
Colorful winter bedding plants bring persistent blooms to California beds. Iceland poppies, calendulas, hybids, violas, snapdragons, and English daisies offer varied hues for late winter and early spring displays, with careful sun and well drained soil to maximize impact.
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Gardening at Home Tips From a Seasonal Planner
A home garden checklist suggests spending more time at home and prioritizing fruit trees, shrubs, and shade trees. It recommends checking local nurseries for camellias and azaleas, oiling tools for winter, and planting cabbage, beets, chard, onions, and carrots now.
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January garden club calendar note widespread meetings
East Bay garden groups publish a January calendar with numerous meetings and events across Oakland San Leandro Alameda Hayward and Fremont. Clubs such as San Leandro Garden Club East Bay Rose Society Fuchsia Society and Chrysanthemum Society list dates venues and rooms at Lakeside Park Garden Center San Leandro Library and local schools.
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East Hay Dahlis Society
East Bay Garden Center
Lakeside Park Garden Center
Bellevue Ave
Oakland
San Leandra Garden Club
Sunset House
Alligd Art Center
San Leandra
San Loren
Meek Estate
Hampton
Austin Roads
Hayward
Diamond Garden Club
Fruitvale Presbyteriary Church
MacArhur
East
East Bay Funsai Society
Uwe Vista
Lakeside Park Garden
Relievue Ave
Cactus and Succulent Society of California
Retlevue Ave
Oaklane
San Geaufro Garden Club
San Leandro
Skyline Garden Club
East Bay Rose Society
Northern California Dalfoul Society
Qakland
Herb Study Club
Hellevue Ave
Northern California Chrysanthemum Society
Tice Valley School
Tice Valley
Walnuut Creek
Diamond Garden
Fruvilyale Presbyterian Church
MacArthur Bly
East Oakland
Southlanders Branch
American Pacific Society
Tyrrell Junior High School
Tyrrell Ave
Pacific Coast
American Rhododemicon Society
Washington Junior High School
Shattuck Ave
Sydney Jr. Mitchell Jets Society
Vista
Lakeside Pack Garden Center
Feltevue Ave
Eden Garden Club
First Presbyterian Church
Fellowship Hall
Grove Way
Nayward
Fremont
Care of Yuletide Gift Plants From the Home Gardener
Garden writer Dorothy Bayliss offers practical tips for caring for Christmas gift plants. She warns which plants can be poisonous, advises watering specifics for different varieties, and explains indoor maintenance, proper drainage, and how to transition blooms like poinsettias and azaleas to the garden after danger of frost passes.
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Dorothy Bayliss
University of California Medical Center
Jerusalem
Tina
Garden Advice on Weeds and Dormant Sprays for Trees
Readers ask about weed control for ivy and ice plant with pre emergent herbicide Tiifluratin and about managing brown pot in apricots. Answer emphasizes following UC Davis guidance, spraying Captan at set dates, saturating trees with a high volume spray, and using lime sulfur and oil where available. Also covers copper oil spray timing and frequency to control curl and peach leaf curl, noting sprays must precede rains and buds swell in February.
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Carmen
Dormont
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