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Grow local, shop local at Gardener's Market

Sacramento Perennial Plant Club hosts vendors and 'The Plant Lady'

Marlene Simon will be the speaker at noon Saturday during the Gardener's Market at the Shepard Garden & Art Center.

Marlene Simon will be the speaker at noon Saturday during the Gardener's Market at the Shepard Garden & Art Center. Photo courtesy The Plant Lady

Find unusual plants from specialty nurseries, whimsical garden art and spring motivation at the 18th annual Gardener’s Market, presented by the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club.

Packing the Shepard Garden & Art Center with vendors and inspirational displays, the market will be held 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 18. Admission and parking are free.

“This annual one-day gardening event showcases some of our favorite specialty nurseries and garden artisans from the greater Sacramento region,” says the perennial club. “The educational component of the event features our popular ‘What’s Blooming’ display and presentations from local horticultural experts.”

The noontime keynote speaker for the event will be Marlene Simon, “The Plant Lady.” As staff horticulturist at the UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, she grows more than 3,000 of the world’s most exotic species. She’s well known to viewers of “Good Day Sacramento” who love her down-to-earth, witty approach to Sacramento-area gardening.

About 20 vendors are expected including such popular sellers as Morningsun Herb Farm, Mad Man Bamboo, Geraniaceae, BirdFeedersRUs, All Things Wild, and Succulent Sirens. For a complete list, see https://sacplants.org/.

Shepard Center is located at 3330 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento.

Details and directions: https://sacplants.org/.

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Garden Checklist for week of May 18

Get outside early in the morning while temperatures are still cool – and get to work!

* 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. 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.

* Are birds picking your fruit off trees before it’s ripe? Try hanging strips of aluminum foil on tree branches. The shiny, dangling strips help deter birds from making themselves at home.

* As spring-flowering shrubs finish blooming, give them a little pruning to shape them, removing old and dead wood. Lightly trim azaleas, fuchsias and marguerites for bushier plants.

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