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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1958
Page
10
Post frost danger, prune tender plants such as fuchsias and pelargoniums. Review new fuchsia introductions each year. Camellias bloom and are a wonderful buy now, including 1957 1958 All-America selections Cinderela and Buddha. Citrus can be planted, especially dwarf lemon oranges grapefruit and hybrids.
Winter planners are urged to gather key facts before landscaping. A detailed checklist covers preferences for privacy play areas climate plant types and functional features. Readers are advised to sketch grounds note wind sun views and plan major projects first for a workable yard with non conflicting tree placements.
The article extols Clivia as a true blue blood of plants with evergreen leaves and towering orange red flower stalks. It notes hardy, shade-loving, low-maintenance care, pot-bounded blooming, and long-lived foliage. recommends ordinary rich soil, annual feeding with manure or fish emulsion, and praises its suitability for dark rooms and planters. It mentions propagation and time to form large clumps, with attention to roots and growth patterns.
An antique classified ad notes railroad ties as good fence posts for customers with wide open spaces to fence. It appears in Class 27 section titled Ant Ads today.
Support urged on conservation from March 7 through March 14 as California Conservation Week. Garden clubbers and others are asked to cooperate with the theme Conservation Calls for Cooperation by curbing the jitterbug instinct, helping clean up, planting a tree, building a shelter or bird cover to keep California green and clean for everyone to enjoy.
Bedding plants to select in February include violas pansies stock snapdragons calendula and Baby Prim rose. Plant at regular intervals to enjoy blooms from early spring through late summer.
CHAMPAIGN UW. If your philodendron droops or looks sick you may save it with solution culture. University of Illinois floriculturist E Ackerman says teary house plants respond well to water with small amounts of fertilizer like 20-95-20. Remove from soil, wash roots, place in water and change solution every two weeks.
Pruning offers many advantages in tree care. It helps repair damage caused by storms, removes dead wood, clears view obstructing and low limbs that hinder mowing, and enhances aesthetic value.
Clean garden tools by removing dried dirt from metal parts then buff with an aluminum oxide abrasive disc on a sander. Use fine paint. Lightly rub with an oil soaked cloth to keep metal bright and shiny.
Advice on planting bedding plants for rapid color in spring. Guides soil preparation, soil tiling, water in planting holes, shading after planting, staking, and pinching for bushier growth. Emphasizes handling plants gently, watering, and removing spent blooms to extend flowering.
The National Carbon Company sponsors a 1958 Gardener of the Year contest inviting amateur gardeners nationwide. A Lord and Burnham SunSet greenhouse 9 by 12 feet with an automatic warm air heater will go to the top winner who will tour New York floral exhibits and receive an engraved trophy. State winners get a Reed and Barton Paul Revere bowl, a 1958 Avalon Rotary lawn mower, an Emerson radio, seeds and garden supplies.
A list of upcoming flower shows and garden events in the Southern Alameda County area. Highlights include events in Sacramento Walnut Creek San Francisco Montclair Oakland Corte Madera and Marin with dates from March through May at venues such as Memorial Auditorium Festival Hall City Park Ygnacio Boulevard and Oakland Exposition Building. Public notices encourage participation in the Spring Blossom and Garden shows and related decorating guild presentations.
Spraying February calcium polysulfide on boysenberries or blackberries aims to insure a good crop later in the year. If not destroyed now, mites could prevent berries from opening evenly.
The new hybrid tea vases feature blooms ideal for display with big high centered flowers on solo stems. Upright plants enable growing more varieties in a single garden bed for versatile arrangement possibilities.
Create wall space for a TV by placing a screen behind it. Try this archway between living and dining areas or between living room and hall to optimize layout and viewing angles.
All garden club members are invited to enter camellias for competition and arrangements in 21 non competitive classes at the Thirteenth Annual Camellia Show in Walnut Creek. Two day event March 15 and 16 at City Park festival hall. Sponsored by Northern California Camellia Society Inc. Exhibits must be removed Sunday evening.
Popular rose varieties offered in curated collections for nurseries. Growers assemble best selling roses into sets of three five or ten varieties enabling gardeners to obtain maximum beauty at lower costs.
Garden clubs and organizations are urged to mail reservation cards for space at the August 19 Floral Fiesta of the San Mateo County Fair. Space is allocated first come, first served. Premium schedules will be issued. formal entries follow. Amateur garden chairman will be Mrs Joseph J Gallagher. Eric Clough is re-appointed designer for this year’s show.
Oakland East Garden Center convenes Monday at 7 30 p m in Lakeside Park Rotary Center with Alameda Fuchsia Society and Eden Garden Club of Hayward joining as affiliates. Gale Richardson will display color slides of Redwood Crater Lake and Oregon coast. Ralph E Hillery named program chairman. Eden Branch meets March 13 at Markham School auditorium Joe Melling to discuss pruning mulching spraying and pinching garden plants. March 27 luncheon for Dist 4A at Rickey's Red Chimney in Stones Town San Francisco with host clubs California Spring Blossom and Wildflower Assn. agenda includes demonstrations by Robert Franklin Biggs and planning details for tickets.
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