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Learn Baldo's rose secrets at workshop



Master rosarian Baldo Villegas shows off one of his winning roses,
Candy Land. He'll offer his tips on quick pruning and rose care during
the Sierra Foothills Rose Society winter workshop.
(Photo courtesy Baldo Villegas)

See how to prune a big bush in three minutes or less

Want to learn how to prune a rose in three minutes or less? Here’s your chance – while staying warm and dry.

On Saturday, Jan. 11, the Sierra Foothills Rose Society hosts its annual winter rose care workshop. Unlike most January pruning workshops, this free event will be held indoors at Maidu Community Center, 1550 Maidu Drive, Roseville.

Come for as much or as little of this half-day seminar as you like. It’s a great refresher for experienced gardeners as well as a valuable introduction to new rose growers. Registration and refreshments start the morning at 8:30 a.m. with the program under way at 9 a.m.

Renowned master rosarian Baldo Villegas, who grows roses by the thousands, will demonstrate his time-saving techniques including his three-minute method. From 9 to 10:45 a.m., he’ll be assisted by other club members as they show how to prune all kinds of roses and answer questions.

At 10:45 a.m., the workshop will cover how to use roses in the landscape, including bushes for small spaces and companion planting. At 11:45 a.m., Villegas – a retired state entomologist – will lead a Q&A on controlling pests and disease.

The club wraps up its rose workshop with a chili cook-off at 12:30 p.m. Participants are welcome to stay for lunch.

“When you leave, you will confidently prune your roses,” promise the organizers. Free pruner sharpening will be offered, too.

Details:
www.sactorose.org or email Charlotte Owendyk at owendyk@gmail.com .

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Garden Checklist for week of May 18

Get outside early in the morning while temperatures are still cool – and get to work!

* Plant, plant, plant! It’s prime planting season in the Sacramento area. Time to set out those tomato transplants along with peppers and eggplants. Pinch off any flowers on new transplants to make them concentrate on establishing roots instead of setting premature fruit.

* Direct-seed melons, cucumbers, summer squash, corn, radishes, pumpkins and annual herbs such as basil.

* Harvest cabbage, lettuce, peas and green onions.

* In the flower garden, direct-seed sunflowers, cosmos, salvia, zinnias, marigolds, celosia and asters. Transplant seedlings for many of the same flowers.

* Plant dahlia tubers.

* Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.

* Keep an eye out for slugs, snails, earwigs and aphids that want to dine on tender new growth.

* Feed summer bloomers with a balanced fertilizer.

* For continued bloom, cut off spent flowers on roses as well as other flowering plants.

* Are birds picking your fruit off trees before it’s ripe? Try hanging strips of aluminum foil on tree branches. The shiny, dangling strips help deter birds from making themselves at home.

* As spring-flowering shrubs finish blooming, give them a little pruning to shape them, removing old and dead wood. Lightly trim azaleas, fuchsias and marguerites for bushier plants.

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