Green Acres' Roseville location hosts special event devoted to indoor gardening
This is the propagation kit for Saturday's houseplant workshop at Green Acres in Roseville. Plants could vary. Courtesy Green Acres Nursery & Supply
One benefit of houseplants: They’re easy to grow, and easy to share.
Learn how to turn a few houseplants into an indoor jungle during a special propagation workshop, hosted by Green Acres Nursery & Supply.
At 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, “Propagation 101” – an introduction to propagating houseplants via cuttings – will be offered at Green Acres’ Roseville location. It’s a practical skill that offers years of enjoyment (and savings).
“Spread the joy of houseplants from pot to pot or house to house!” say the hosts. “Our houseplant guru, Rocky, will teach you how to propagate houseplants from cuttings and transplant your newly rooted starts.”
Workshop fee is $25 and advance registration is required. The class is limited to 25 participants.
Ticket includes all the materials to start propagating: four cuttings of your choice, a propagation kit, curved razor snips and instructions. The cutting selection includes several standout begonias.
Green Acres is located at 7300 Galilee Road, Roseville. The workshop will be held in the nursery’s Plant Bar.
For more details and registration: https://idiggreenacres.com/products/planting-bar-event-roseville
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* Prune roses, even if they’re still trying to bloom. Strip off any remaining leaves, so the bush will be able to put out new growth in early spring.
* Clean up leaves and debris around your newly pruned roses and shrubs. Put down fresh mulch or bark to keep roots cozy.
* After the wind stops, apply horticultural oil to fruit trees to control scale, mites and aphids. Oils need 24 hours of dry weather after application to be effective.
* This is also the time to spray a copper-based fungicide to peach and nectarine trees to fight leaf curl. (The safest effective fungicides available for backyard trees are copper soap -- aka copper octanoate -- or copper ammonium, a fixed copper fungicide. Apply either of these copper products with 1% horticultural oil to increase effectiveness.)
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* Browse through seed catalogs and start making plans for spring and summer.
* Divide daylilies, Shasta daisies and other perennials.
* Cut back and divide chrysanthemums.
* Plant bare-root roses, trees and shrubs.
* Transplant pansies, violas, calendulas, English daisies, snapdragons and fairy primroses.
* In the vegetable garden, plant fava beans, head lettuce, mustard, onion sets, radicchio and radishes.
* Plant bare-root asparagus and root divisions of rhubarb.
* In the bulb department, plant callas, anemones, ranunculus and gladioli for bloom from late spring into summer.
* Plant blooming azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons. If you’re shopping for these beautiful landscape plants, you can now find them in full flower at local nurseries.
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