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Find Arboretum All-Stars and more at Saturday sale


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PUBLISHED SEP 26, 2018
The Jelly Bean monkeyflower is a hybrid California native adapted
for the home landscape. Monkeyflowers and other natives will be featured
at the arboretum sale. (Photo courtesy UC Davis Arboretum)



UC Davis Arboretum hosts first fall sale with 27,000 (mostly) low-water plants

Looking for Arboretum All-Stars? Find them in abundance -- along with many other great plants -- at the UC Davis Arboretum's fall plant sales.

The first of three fall sales will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, at the Arboretum Teaching Nursery on Garrod Drive on the UC Davis campus.

The arboretum's one-acre nursery is overflowing with almost 27,000 plants in about 670 varieties, many of them unavailable anywhere else in the greater Sacramento area. That includes the Arboretum All-Stars, the nursery's collection of bullet-proof and beautiful low-water plants.

Also featured this fall is a gigantic selection of California natives as well as recommended plants from the Arboretum's own gardens.

Along with the plants comes expert advice from Friends of the Arboretum. Volunteers will be on hand to help with plant selection.

The complete inventory for Saturday's sale is available here: https://bit.ly/2NHPGyo
Friends of the Arboretum and Davis Botanical Society members get first crack from 9 to 11 a.m. (plus a 10 percent discount). Join the Friends at the door and get early entry plus a $10 coupon.
Public hours will be 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Wear sensible shoes for gravel paths.

Additional sales will be held Oct. 13 and Nov. 3. For full details: https://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/plant-sales

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Garden Checklist for week of April 21

This week there’s plenty to keep gardeners busy. With no rain in the immediate forecast, remember to irrigate any new transplants.

* Weed, weed, weed! Get them before they flower and go to seed.

* April is the last chance to plant citrus trees such as dwarf orange, lemon and kumquat. These trees also look good in landscaping and provide fresh fruit in winter.

* 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.

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

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

* 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.

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

* Mulch around plants to conserve moisture and control weeds.

* From seed, plant beans, beets, cantaloupes, carrots, corn, cucumbers, melons, 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.

* Mid to late April is about the last chance to plant summer bulbs, such as gladiolus and tuberous begonias.

* Transplant lettuce seedlings. Choose varieties that mature quickly such as loose leaf.

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