Enjoy unique private Sacramento gardens plus plant and garden art sales
One of seven gardens on Saturday's tour, this backyard went from huge swimming pool to koi pond, Japanese maples and edibles. Photos courtesy River Park Garden Club
Enjoy a beautiful spring Saturday while wandering in someone else’s backyard during an enchanting local garden tour.
On Saturday, April 22, the River Park Garden Club hosts its third “Seven Special Garden Spaces” tour. Tickets are just $5 for this neighborhood tour featuring private gardens in the River Park neighborhood near Sacramento State. Gardens will be open from 10 a.m to 2 p.m.
On tour day, get your tickets at the corner of Carlson Drive and Camellia Avenue. (Both Carlson and Camellia intersect H Street; go north on either one.) Tickets may also be reserved by calling 916-451-4658.
All seven gardens are unique, says club President Patricia Beach Smith. “There is a friendly dragon in the young-at-heart fantasy garden on the tour, and an immaculately kept garden, with a sense of history and humor. Marvel at the garden that replaced a huge swimming pool with a koi pond, edibles and magnificent Japanese maples.
“Shhhh. One of the gardens is a quiet nesting place for 12 soon-to-be ducklings and their parents,” Smith adds. “Another is a large family garden – with a swimming pool, entertaining areas plus raised vegetable beds and fruit trees.”
At one stop, the Sacramento Perennial Plant Club will offer plants for sale. In another garden, artists will exhibit and sell their garden-centric paintings, jewelry, clothing and garden ornaments.
Club members will be hosts in each garden to answer questions and offer advice.
The club is also seeking candidates for next year’s tour. Prospective gardens will be toured this month. “We need to see them in the spring,” Smith says.
For more details: https://riverparkgardenclub.yolasite.com/.
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Make the most of dry breaks between showers. Your garden is in high-growth mode.
* Pull weeds now! Don’t let them get started. Take a hoe and whack them as soon as they sprout.
* Prepare vegetable beds. Spade in compost and other amendments.
* Prune and fertilize spring-flowering shrubs after bloom.
* Feed camellias at the end of their bloom cycle. Pick up browned and fallen flowers to help corral blossom blight.
* Feed citrus trees, which are now in bloom and setting fruit. To prevent sunburn and borer problems on young trees, paint the exposed portion of the trunk with diluted white latex (water-based) interior paint. Dilute the paint with an equal amount of cold water before application.
* Feed roses with a balanced fertilizer (such as 10-10-10, the ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium available in that product).
* Prune and fertilize spring-flowering shrubs and trees after they bloom. Try using well-composted manure, spread 1-inch-thick under the tree (but avoid piling it up around the trunk). This serves as both fertilizer and mulch, retaining moisture while cutting down on weeds.
* Cut back and fertilize perennial herbs to encourage new growth.
* In the vegetable garden, transplant lettuce and cole family plants, such as cauliflower, broccoli, collards and kale.
* Seed chard and beets directly into the ground. (To speed germination, soak beet seeds overnight in room-temperature water before planting.)
* Before the mercury starts inching upward, this is your last chance to plant such annuals as pansies, violas and primroses.
* Plant summer bulbs, including gladiolus, tuberous begonias and callas. Also plant dahlia tubers.
* Shop for perennials. Many varieties are available in local nurseries and at plant events. They can be transplanted now while the weather remains relatively cool.
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