Gladiolus Thrips Threat Hailed By Gardener Expert
Dorothy Bayliss explains thrips as the major threat to gladiolus success and offers storage and planting tips. She notes early spring planting, careful digging to avoid cormels, sun curing followed by shade, and storage methods ranging from flats to bags or nylon to over winter.
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Dorothy Bayliss
Gardener Tips for August Plant Care and Blooms
Garden notes advise regular deep watering for moisture lovers like camellias and chrysanthemums. Prune chrysanthemums to one foot, avoid late pinching. Fall plantings include beans corn carrots lettuce beets. fall bulbs such as Autumn Crocus cyclamen Sternbergia Zephyr Lily. Butterfly Bush emerges with pink blue red white lilac flowers. blooms until October.
Ground covers for shade and sun in gardens
Ground covers fill open spaces in gardens from level areas to slopes. Choose by questions on shade, drought survival, blooming, and traffic tolerance. Dichondra and Lippia are strong bets, ivy suits shaded drought resistance, while sunny spots offer more options.
Flowering Trees Add Color to California Neighborhoods
California readers are urged to choose flowering shade trees to beautify streets and public spaces. Crape Myrtles provide long May to September blooms in pinks and whites, Silk Trees offer a broad summer canopy, White Fringe Trees suit small plazas, and Jacarandas create lavender-blue displays from May to July. Each promises beauty with season-long color in varied climates.
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Cali
Fornia
Geranium Sparks Up Garden Colorful Zonals Brighten Containers
The hardy geranium, a perennial herb, thrives in sun and mild climates and rewards growers with abundant blooms. nurseries offer large zonal varieties in one gallon pots with pink red and white flowers in single and double forms. Coastal gardeners use cascading geraniums to color cover banks walls and window boxes with trailing ivy geraniums.
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California Association of Nurserymen
Ornamental Podocarpus Brings Serene Japanese Touch
Podocarpus offers a picturesque addition for patios and corners with dark green leaves and pendulous branches. The Yew Pine variety, hardy to 40 degrees, forms an irregular columnar shrub or hedge, ideal for screens or oriental plantings, and can be trained as a formal hedge or espalier.
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Beason
Mary Mare
California Association of Nurserymen
Japan
China
South America
California
Spain
Exotic Beauties The World in Your Garden
A lively tour of global gardening ideas for California yards. It highlights mixing regional styles with plants from around the world, including chrysanthemums from Asia, olives and lemon trees from the Mediterranean, bougainvillea for walls, and exotic succulents for patios.
Garden club events honor anniversaries and shows
The Alameda Branch American Fuchsia Society marks its anniversary with a church event and a garden tour on July 25 from 2 to 5 p.m. Garden addresses in Alameda Milbrae San Bruno and San Francisco are listed for visits along with California entries. The Liftie Show by San Leandro Dahlia Society runs Aug 21-22 at Bancroft Junior High. New officers of Sydney B Mitchell Iris Society will be installed July 23 at Lakeside Park Garden Center.
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Alameda
American Fuchsia Society
First Congregational Church
Central Ave
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San Antonio Ave
Peart St
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Barcelona Drive
Lewis Ave
Milbrae
Fifth Ave
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San Bruno
Hillside Blvd
San Francisco
San Leandro Dahlia Society
McKinley School
E. 14Th St
San Leandro
Pan
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Bancroft Junior High School
Lakeside Park Garden Center
Ballevue Ave
Oakland
At & Pam
San Lorenzo Fuchsia Society
Hesperian School
Drew St
San Lorenzo
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