See more than two dozen private and school gardens featuring California native plants
See how California native plants fit beautifully in a home garden during the Gardens Gone Native tour Saturday, May 3. Pre-registration is free but required to receive the map. Courtesy Sacramento Valley Chapter of CNPS
The poppies are in bloom, which means it must be time to go wild!
See for yourself Saturday, May 3, during the popular Gardens Gone Native tour.
Hosted by the Sacramento Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society, Gardens Gone Native showcases “wildflowers” – our native plants – at home in homes and schools. It’s a wonderful opportunity to learn more about natives and which plants work well where at their height of bloom – the first weekend in May.
More than two dozen private and school gardens will be part of this year’s free self-guided tour, which winds throughout the Sacramento region. Register in advance to get the map, directions and garden descriptions. See several gardens or just a few; the order is totally flexible.
From 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, each garden will be hosted by an expert (usually the garden’s creator) who can answer questions. That includes recommended plant varieties, combinations and challenges.
“Gardens are comprised predominantly of California native plants in the urban landscape,” explain the organizers. “These gardens feature a variety of ways in which native plants can flourish in the home garden. Some are professionally designed while others are more functional and are a mix use of natives, food production, and living spaces. You will find delightful and sustainable gardens that harness water, create habitats, and add a sense of place.”
Two independent native plant vendors will be available during this year's tour for shopping. Miridae Mobile Nursery (https://www.miridaemobilenursery.com) will be at the City of Sacramento Demonstration Garden, 1395 35th Ave. Mother Natives (https://www.mothernatives.com/) will be in the Tahoe Park neighborhood.
Questions about the tour? Email gardensgonenative@gmail.com.
To register and more information: https://www.sacvalleycnps.org/gardens-gone-native-tour/.
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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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