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River Park hosts its first garden tour


Discover seven special gardens in River Park during the first River Park Garden Tour this Saturday.
(Photo courtesy River Park Garden Club)

See six private landscapes plus a large student project

Discover some hidden gems and get inspired to create your own during the first River Park Garden Tour, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 13.

“Seven Special Garden Spaces” will take you inside the landscapes of six private homes in this unique Sacramento neighborhood plus the gardens of Caleb-Greenwood School.

Where is River Park? The neighborhood’s main street is Carlson Drive, off H Street, east of California State University, Sacramento, near the Scottish Rite Masonic Center and Fremont Church in Sacramento.

But it’s the rich alluvial soil that makes this riverside neighborhood such a gardening delight.

Among the tour highlights are: a poet’s garden; an English garden with edibles; a garden nurtured by a pair of serious plant “junkies”; another with a collection of Japanese maples and rock formations; a low-maintenance design; and one of the area’s largest drought-tolerant gardens. The school’s gardens include student-tended, you-pick veggie gardens plus a landscape devoted to California natives.

In her own River Park garden, a UC Cooperative Extension master gardener will answer gardening questions and offer advice. Another added attraction: A garden boutique. Tom Kurth, owner of The Ruralist shop on 57th Street Antique Row, promises a selection of unique garden gifts, antiques for the garden, potted herbs and garden art.

Tour tickets are $5 each, available in advance by calling 916-454-5637 or online at
http://riverparkgardenclub.yolasite.com . On the day of the tour, tickets will be sold only at 5457 Carlson Drive, Sacramento.

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Garden Checklist for week of April 20

Before possible showers at the end of the week, take advantage of all this nice sunshine – and get to work!

* Set out tomato, pepper and eggplant transplants.

* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, pumpkins, radishes and squash.

* Plant onion sets.

* In the flower garden, plant seeds for asters, cosmos, celosia, marigolds, salvia, sunflowers and zinnias.

* Transplant petunias, zinnias, geraniums and other summer bloomers.

* Plant perennials and dahlia tubers for summer bloom.

* Plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.

* Transplant lettuce and cabbage seedlings.

* Smell orange blossoms? Feed citrus trees with a low dose of balanced fertilizer (such as 10-10-10) during bloom to help set fruit. Keep an eye out for ants.

* Apply slow-release fertilizer to the lawn.

* Thoroughly clean debris from the bottom of outdoor ponds or fountains.

* Trim dead flowers but not leaves from spring-flowering bulbs such as daffodils and tulips. Those leaves gather energy to create next year's flowers. Also, give the bulbs a fertilizer boost after bloom.

* Spring brings a flush of rapid growth, and that means your garden is really hungry. Give shrubs and trees a dose of a slow-release fertilizer. Or mulch with a 1-inch layer of compost.

* Start thinning fruit that's formed on apple and stone fruit trees -- you'll get larger fruit at harvest (and avoid limb breakage) if some is thinned now. The UC recommendation is to thin fruit when it is about 3/4 of an inch in diameter. Peaches and nectarines should be thinned to about 6 inches apart; smaller fruit such as plums and pluots can be about 4 inches apart. Apricots can be left at 3 inches apart. Apples and pears should be thinned to one fruit per cluster of flowers, 6 to 8 inches apart.

* Azaleas and camellias looking a little yellow? If leaves are turning yellow between the veins, give them a boost with chelated iron.

* Pinch chrysanthemums back to 12 inches for fall flowers. Cut old stems to the ground.

* Weed, weed, weed! Don’t let unwanted plants go to seed.

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