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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 2001
Page
12
The Butterfly Garden Club of America invites households to request free seed packets for backyard gardens. Each packet costs one dollar, covers about ten seedlings, and helps grow a bloom for butterflies. Send a self addressed envelope with no stamps to PO Box 629 Burgin KY 40310.
Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Samuel Hayes Jr announces a planting moratorium on plum pox virus stocks in Adams and nearby counties. Residential and commercial plantings halted as surveys in Adams County since September 1999 help establish a quarantine area. Plum pox virus harms stone fruits. call 717-772-5203 for details.
Beds of roses cacti and succulents pansies floating lilies and a quilted bed feature in Brookside Gardens winter spring display. The event runs daily 10 am to 5 pm through April 22 with free admission at Wheaton facility. For more information call 301-949-8730.
The Berkeley Jefferson Master Gardeners Gardenside Chat program, canceled on Saturday Jan 20, is moved to 10 am Saturday Feb 10 at Claymont Mansion in Charles Town West Virginia. The free event focuses on historic garden restoration. For information or registration contact Connie Jantz at 304-335-6549 or via wildgardener msn com.
Behnke Nurseries starts free spring seminars on indoor gardening and pest management. On Saturday Feb 10 Scott Aker of the U S National Arboretum leads Managing Pests in the Home Landscape Roses and Beyond at 1 pm. Orchid expert Carol Allen speaks Feb 11 at 1 pm. Call 301 937 1100 to register.
Members of the Catoctin Orchid Society affiliated with the American Orchid Society will present a slide program titled 40 Species of Orchids Everyone Should Have in Their Greenhouse at 2 p.m. on Sunday February 11 at the Church of the Transfiguration Braddock Heights. The public is invited and for more information contact 301-299-4245.
The Monocacy Rose Society will meet at 9 a.m. Saturday February 17 at the Church of the Brethren 201 Fairview Ave Frederick. Allen Bryant will address pesticides. For more information contact Carol at 301-663-4308 or Dottie at 301-SA5-R814.
Community Commons Inc and the Monocacy Basin Stream Monitoring Project sponsor a nine month lecture series. The next talk by Meredith Lathbury of Potomac Conservancy is titled Conservation Land Options for the Landowner and runs 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday February 20 in Hood College Whitaker Commons Room. Call 301 662 3000 or email community commons yahoo.com for information.
Bird enthusiasts meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday February 21 at Florence Bain Senior Center Harpers Choice Columbia. Blake Henke of University of Maryland will discuss satellite telemetry for avian conservation and its use in bird migration studies with photographs. Free and open to the public. information at 410-833-5155.
Hagerstown Community College Continuing Education offers a course titled Fun, Productive and Safe Gardening. Sessions run Thursdays from March 19, 6:30 to 8:30 pm in Valley Mall Center Room One. The $59 class covers soil care, crop fertilization, harvesting, and pest and disease control. For more information call 301-790-2800 ext. 565 or 236.
Indoor rose growing tips for winter emphasize miniature varieties like Lyn Lane and Sachet for windowsills. Begin in autumn with a 6 inch pot, use standard potting mix, water thoroughly, keep cool to develop roots, then move to warmth for growth. Watch for mites and mildew and treat with soap or safe sprays.
A compact guide explains forcing bulbs indoors to bloom by Easter. It covers cold treatment durations eight to fourteen weeks for many bulbs, pot preparation, soil, and watering, plus room temperature, light, and gradual transitioning. It notes frost free types, avoids mixing bulb types, and lists common choices like hyacinth crocus narcissus and paper white varieties.
Andrea MacDonald and her husband Bit transformed a 71 year old Fresno house yard into a butterfly friendly space. They planted rosemary perennials and dali oils, poured a concrete rock garden, espaliered apple trees on a detached garage wall, and added a mural with three dimensional cats. A summer house on concrete piers and salvaged timber features complete the inviting scene. Amy MacDonald, a Fresno County master gardener, works from a potting bench in the summer house.
The monthly calendar lists multiple horticulture lectures and seminars from February 10 through February 24 across Behnke Nurseries in Beltsville, Claymont Mansion in Charles Town, and regional sites. Highlights include Orchid Culture Class, Managing Pests in the Home, Bird-Friendly Yard design, and a Monocacy Fune Society meeting plus the Mid-Atlantic Direct Marketing Conference in Virginia Beach. Many events run on February 10 with subsequent sessions on February 11, 14, 17, 20, 21, 23, and 24, featuring groups like the Catoctin Orchid Society, Audubon Society, and local extension offices.
A 21st Century Commission report proposes replacing perverse subsidies with annual payments to farmers when production falls below past earnings. The plan could cover fruits vegetables and other commodities and would cost about 2.8 billion in 2003. Critics tie current overproduction to federal crop insurance policies begun in 1990.
Winter season prompts attention to plant viruses and how they manifest. Symptoms vary with plant type and can include pale leaves or crinkling, with infections showing in response to cool temperatures. Animals can fight infections, but plants cannot, making habitat management and heat or virus-free propagation key. Controlling vectors like aphids and isolating cultivated from wild plants helps prevent spread. Some varieties resist viruses or are certified virus free. avoid overwatering and seek lab tests for definitive diagnosis.
Gardeners face light frosts and chilly evenings as sweet peas start indoors and will scent the air in about a month. Plant cool season annuals now and later switch to warm season blooms. direct sowing risks poor germination. Include Verbena, Pansies, Calibrachoa, and Dianthus for cottage borders, with care to thin seedlings and replace with heat lovers as summer nears.
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