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Get hip at the Historic City Cemetery rose garden


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PUBLISHED OCT 10, 2018
Rose hips bring new colors to the Historic City Cemetery in fall.
(Photo: Judy Eitzen, courtesy of the Historic Rose Garden)

Tour: Sacramento's world famous Victorian collection shows off fall fruit and flowers


Each October, Sacramento's Historic City Cemetery rose garden puts on a show like no other. With varieties dating back to Victorian days, the world-famous collection of old garden roses turns hippy.

See for yourself and learn about this unique living library of roses during a special tour Saturday, Oct. 13. Led by garden curator Anita Clevenger, "October Encore in the Historic Rose Garden" tours the garden at its fall finest. That includes more than flowers.

As the bushes prepare for winter, they form fruit -- bright orange, red or yellow hips. Just as these roses are different from garden varieties, so are the hips, which come in many forms.

These sprays of hips add a festive seasonal touch to the cemetery collection, a member of the Great Rosarians of the World hall of fame.

Besides the hips, plenty of fragrant roses will still be in bloom and on beautiful display. Cooler weather brings out flowers' brighter colors as well as red hues in foliage.

Starting at 10 a.m., the free 90-minute tour starts at the cemetery's main gate, 1000 Broadway, Sacramento. Donations are welcome. Street parking is available.

And don't forget to check out the Sacramento Digs Gardening calendar. Click here to find out about the many gardening events in the Sacramento region.

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Garden Checklist for week of May 11

Make the most of the lower temperatures early in the week. We’ll be back in the 80s by Thursday.

* 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. (You also can 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.

* Add mulch to the garden to maintain moisture. Mulch also cuts down on weeds. But don’t let it mound around the stems or trunks of trees or shrubs. Leave about a 6-inch-to-1-foot circle to avoid crown rot or other problems.

* Remember to weed! Pull those nasties before they set seed.

* Water early in the day and keep seedlings evenly moist.

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