Hen and chickens plants offer unique garden effects
The echo or hen and chicks succulent multiplies by offsets, forming clumps that suit rock gardens, driveways, tubs, and planters. Space them six inches apart for rows or patterns, trim offsets to grow larger, and enjoy shimmering rosette foliage with colored gravel or rock surroundings.
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Rock Garden
Hague
Pinching Buds to Enlarge Blooms in Southern Alameda Gardens
Southern Alameda County readers learn that pinching flower buds and side growth can enlarge blooms and improve flowering longevity. Early pinching directs plant strength to stems and flowering branches, with variations by species such as zinnias, snapdragons, stocks, fuchsias, delphiniums, and phlox, and includes training methods like espaliering and topiary.
Gait CO garden checklist hints for summer care
Full moon hibiscus available at nurseries and requires mulch and filtered sun for best color. Raise lawn mower blades to protect tall grass from heat. Water, feed and weed on schedule to keep lawn green. Thin spring bloom shrubs like welgela spiraca forsythia and philadelphus. Blooming fuchsias can be planted now or grown in containers. Submerge pots in water during peak heat. Blue hydrangeas respond to aluminum sulfate to deepen blue color.
Some Old Bug Killers Still Work
Chemists search for new sprays to kill insects but bugs breed resistant strains as newer chemicals appear. Older materials remain effective, with Volk oil and nicotine sulphate killing resistant aphids and a variety of chewing and sucking insects. Rotenone based mixes and oils also help, while rotating sprays reduces immunity and Sustained use of Isotox chiorthane and related compounds remains effective against many species.
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Aphis
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Vacation garden care tips to keep blooms Afloat
A guidance list helps homeowners plan garden care during absence. Recommendations include feeding late summer and fall plants with water soluble fertilizer, thorough watering to soil below rock level, mulching to reduce evaporation, pulling weeds and applying a 2 45 solution for broadleaf weeds, keeping old blooms trimmed, spraying beds to prevent pests and disease, and staking tall plants like lilies and delphiniums to avoid twisted stalks.
Eden Garden Club to Meet at Trinity Church
Eden Garden Club will gather at 2 30 pm Monday in Trinity Episcopal Church Hayward for the last meeting until September 26. The program features the film Wild Flowers of the West by Richfield Oil Co, plus a May California Garden Clubs list report and a plant table. Hostesses include Florinia Faria Margaret Andrade and Mary Penfold.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
Hill Ave
Hayward
Richfield Oil Company
Florinia Faria
Margaret Andrade
Mary Penfold
Rare plant first bloom at Castro Valley home garden
Castro Valley residents Mr. and Mrs. William Fernandez celebrate seven years of care for a rare orange bird of paradise plant. Planted in Walker, California, it grew from 12 inches to reaching the roof, with white blossoms over two feet long and expanding sucker shoots for possible transplantation.
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William Hernandez
Nunes Ave
Castro Valley
Fernandez
Phote
Steve Rubiolo
William Fernandez
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