Fall tea at Shepard Center also features show and sale of hand-painted items
The Camellia City Porcelain Artists host their annual show Saturday and Sunday. It's a busy weekend for Sacramento groups. Photo courtesy Camellia City Porcelain Artists
It’s a Sacramento fall tradition that comes with something extra: A beautiful tea service.
This weekend, the Camellia City Porcelain Artists will host its 31st annual show and fall tea at Shepard Garden and Arts Center. Admission and parking are free.
From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 8 and 9, patrons are invited to sip tea, enjoy snacks and browse the show, packed with beautifully hand-painted creations.
“Enjoy complimentary snacks and drinks while viewing the art of traditional and creative works of hand-painted porcelain pieces from local artists,” say the organizers. “Christmas Tree raffle to benefit the Sacramento Zoo, hand-painted china for purchase and much more!”
Interested in learning about ceramics and porcelain painting? This is the place.
“You want porcelain? We’ve got plenty,” says the club. “Our sales table helps support our club and keeps this wonderful art alive and well.”
Shepard Center is located at 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento, in McKinley Park.
Details: www.sgaac.org.
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Bonus events! So much great garden activity around the region this weekend that we wanted to include these:
-- Plant sale Saturday at the Luther Burbank High School's Burbank Urban Garden (aka BUG) to support the program. The high school's on-site 1-acre farm will offer cool-season organic vegetables for sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Prices are $4 for 4-inch pots and $8 for 4-packs. Vegetables include lettuce, spinach, arugula, chard, peas, pak choy, collard greens, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, scallions, leeks and onions. Flowers include nasturtiums, alyssum and violas. All plants raised by the Urban Agriculture Academy students. BUG is located in the back portion of LBHS, which is at 3500 Florin Road, Sacramento. https://www.facebook.com/BurbankUrbanGarden
-- Monarchs and Milkweeds workshop, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Loomis Library. Free; no registration is required. Learn about monarch butterflies and their host plant, milkweed. Learn what a host plant is and how to invite monarchs into your yard. Free seeds and hints for growing your own monarch oasis are available. Loomis Library, 6050 Library Drive, Loomis. Parking is free. Presented by the Placer County master gardeners. For more information: https://pcmg.ucanr.org/?calitem=539988&g=131834
-- Ornamental grasses workshop, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, at the Sherwood Demonstration Garden, 6699 Campus Drive, Placerville.
El Dorado County master gardener Sue McDavid will how to incorporate ornamental grasses into a landscape. Most grasses need very little care and, in fact, thrive on neglect, so they are perfect for even novice gardeners. As a bonus, enjoy the various Sherwood garden areas during the Open Garden Day. https://mgeldorado.ucanr.edu/
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Food in My Back Yard (FIMBY) Series
FALL
Nov. 11: Prepare now for colder weather in the edible garden
Nov. 4: Plant a pea patch for you and your garden
Oct. 27: As citrus season begins, advice for backyard growers
Oct. 20: Change is in the autumn air
Oct. 13: We don't talk (enough) about beets
Oct. 6: Fava beans do double duty
Sept. 30: Seeds or transplants for cool-season veggies?
Sept. 23: How to prolong the fall tomato harvest
SUMMER
Sept. 16: Time to shut it down?
Sept. 9: How to get the most out of your pumpkin patch
Sept. 2: Summer-to-fall transition time for evaluation, planning
Aug. 26: To pick or not to pick those tomatoes?
Aug. 19: Put worms to work for you
Aug. 12: Grow food while saving water
Aug. 5: Enhance your food with edible flowers
July 29: Why won't my tomatoes turn red?
July 22: A squash plant has mosaic virus, and it's not pretty
July 15: Does this plant need water?
July 8: Tear out that sad plant or baby it? Midsummer decisions
July 1: How to grow summer salad greens
June 24: Weird stuff that's perfectly normal
SPRING
June 17: Help pollinators help your garden
June 10: Battling early-season tomato pests
June 3: Make your own compost
May 27: Where are the bees when you need them?
May 20: How to help tomatoes thrive on hot days
May 13: Your plants can tell you more than any calendar can
May 6: Maintain soil moisture with mulch for garden success
April 29: What's (already) wrong with my tomato plants?
April 22: Should you stock up on fertilizer? (Yes!)
April 15: Grow culinary herbs in containers
April 8: When to plant summer vegetables
April 1: Don't be fooled by these garden myths
March 25: Fertilizer tips: How to 'feed' your vegetables for healthy growth
WINTER
March 18: Time to give vegetable seedlings some more space
March 11: Ways to win the fight against weeds
March 4: Potatoes from the garden
Feb. 25: Plant a fruit tree now -- for later
Feb. 18: How to squeeze more food into less space
Feb. 11: When to plant? Consider staggering your transplants
Feb. 4: Starting in seed starting
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Garden checklist for week of Nov. 16
During breaks in the weather, tackle some garden tasks:
* Clear gutters and storm drains.
* Prune dead or broken branches from trees.
* After the storm, seed wildflowers and plant such spring bloomers as sweet pea, sweet alyssum and bachelor buttons.
* Set out cool-weather annuals such as pansies and snapdragons.
* Lettuce, cabbage and broccoli also can be planted now.
* Plant garlic and onions.
* Plant bulbs at two-week intervals to spread out your spring bloom. Some possible suggestions: daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, tulips, anemones and scillas.
* Save dry stalks and seedpods from poppies and coneflowers for fall bouquets and holiday decorating.
* Rake and compost leaves, but dispose of any diseased plant material. For example, if peach and nectarine trees showed signs of leaf curl this year, clean up under trees and dispose of those leaves instead of composting them. Do leave some (healthy) leaves in the planting beds for wildlife and beneficial insect habitat.
* Give your azaleas, gardenias and camellias a boost with chelated iron.
* For larger blooms, pinch off some camellia buds.
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