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Apr 6 - Apr 7 ~ How to Have a Happy Rose Garden ~ Rose Gardening for Dummies. $2 donation, Gardens & Nursery open 10a-5p, Demos @ 10a & 2p, Russian River Rose Company, 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, russian- river-rose.com
Apr 6 ~ Kids Garden Workshop ~ Learn about growing food & taking care of our earth. Free, 11a-12p, Sebastopol Regional Library, 7140 Bodega Ave., Sebastopol, 707-823-7691, sonomacounty.libcal.com
Apr 13 - Apr 14 ~ Glorious Irises, Bedazzlers of Spring ~ 150 varieties in full splendor. $2 Donation, open 10a- 5p, Presentations @ 10a & 2p, Russian River Rose Co., 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, russian-river-rose.com
Apr 13 - Apr 21 ~ Bee Installation Class/ Demonstration ~ FREE, Beekind Store, 921 Gravenstein Hwy S., Sebastopol, 707-824-2905, Doug Vincent, beekind. com, beekind@beekind.com
Apr 16 ~ What Does Fire Resistant Landscaping Really Mean ~ A Program by Steven Swain. Free, 7:30a Luther Burbank Art and Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Ave., Santa Rosa, milobaker.cnps.org
Apr 20 - Apr 21 ~ Fragrant Roses To Fill Your Senses! ~ See and smell the especially fragrant roses in our Display. $2 donation, 10a-5p, Special Presentations 4/20 10a & 2p. Russian River Rose Company, 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, russian-river-rose.com
Apr 23 ~ Horticultural Garden Tour ~ 1.5hr guided tour of Osmosis Kyoto- style Meditation Garden w/tree pruning expert Michael Alliger. $25, 9:30a-12p, Osmosis Day Spa Sanctuary, 209 Bohemian Hwy., Freestone, 707- 823-8231, osmosis.com
Apr 26 - 27 - Annual Spring Flower Show and Plant Sale - 9am-4pm FREE. Floral displays, plant sale, crafts and homemade gifts, white elephant, raffle, live music. Lunch 11 a – 2 p, $10. Homemade desserts $5, wine $5.
Apr 27 - Apr 28 ~ Climbing Roses ‘Magnifique! ~ More than 75 varieties of climbing roses. $2 donation, 10a- 5p. Special tours @10a & 2p, Russian River Rose Co., 1685 Magnolia Dr., Healdsburg, russian-river-rose.com
May 4 - May 5 ~ Peak Blooms - Perfume Harvest Demonstrations ~ Experience Living History in California’s only rose perfume fields. $2 donation, 10a-5p, Russian River Rose Co., 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, russian-river-rose.com
May 4 ~ Eco-Friendly Garden Tour ~ Tour highlights Russian River-Friendly and Bay-Friendly landscaping best practices. Free, Sonoma & Marin Counties, savingwaterpartnership.org
Master Gardener
Apr 6 ~ Firewise Landscape ~ By Sonoma County Master Gardeners, Free, 10:30a-12:30p, Guerneville Regional Library, 14107 Armstrong Woods Rd, Guerneville, sonomacounty.libcal.com
Apr 6 ~ First Steps to a Water Wise Garden ~ By Leslie Hart. Address your irrigation needs. Free, 10:30a-12:30p, Windsor Library, 9291 Old Redwood Hwy, Bldg 100, Windsor, sonomacounty. libcal.com
Apr 6 ~ The Wonderful World of Worms ~ FREE Gardening workshop by UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma Co. Free, 10:30a-12:30p, Sebastopol Regional Library, 7140 Bodega Ave., Sebastopol, 707-823-7691, sonomacounty.libcal.com
Apr 13 ~ Discover the Excitement of Growing Your Own Tomatoes ~ Learn how to grow beautiful tomatoes. Free, 10:30a-12:30p, Harvest for the Hungry Garden, 1717 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa, 707-565-2608, sonomacountymastergardeners.org, fawn@fawnmoran.com
Garden Clubs
ALL CLUBS: sonomacountynurseries.com
Green Thumb Garden Club- Meets 4th Wed @ 1pm at Clover Springs Lodge, 210 Red Mountain Drive, Cloverdale. Field trip May. SEE Plant Sales pg 57
Healdsburg Garden Club - meets at Villa Chanticleer Annex, 1248 N. Fitch Mountain Rd. Check website calendar. Apr 27 - Plant & Craft Sale: 9a - 1p at Healdsburg Senior Living Community, 725 Grove St, Healdsburg.
Men’s Garden Club of Santa Rosa - meets 2nd Tues at 7p, Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Ave. Santa Rosa. SEE Plant Sale list pg 57
Milo Baker NPS - meets 3rd Tues. @ at the Luther Burbank Art and Garden Center at 2050 Yulupa Street in Santa Rosa at 7:30p. milobaker.cnps.org SEE Plant Sale list pg 57
Petaluma Garden Club - meets 2nd Mon thru June @ Petaluma Veterans Bldg, 1094 Petaluma Blvd. South, Petaluma. Registration @ 9:30a petalumagardenclub.org.
Redwood Empire Rose Society - meets 3rd Thurs. 7p @ Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center (LBAGC) 2050 Yulupa Ave, Santa Rosa SEE Plant Sales pg 57
Santa Rosa Garden Club ~ meets 4th Mon (Sep - May) at Luther Burbank Art & Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa, Santa Rosa at 1p. santarosagardenclub.com SEE Plant Sales pg 57
Windsor Ga rden Club - meets 2nd Mon 6:30 p. Windsor Senior Center, 9231 Foxwood Drive, Windsor, 707-931-4769, windsorgardenclub.org
Healthy tasty vegetables can be grown even where little ground exists.
Wine production is a big part of our local culture and economy and brings along with it our hospitality and many supported industries. Our wines rate among the best in the world! Terroir, a term that almost every wine producer uses today, is the French term defined as how the taste of the wine is an expression of the soil and sense of place that the grapes are grown in.
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Feed. If you are using plants that are not adaptable to your soils, manure amendments contribute to activating the soil and making it more fertile. There are a wide variety of organic fertilizers available when you need to feed. Sea kelp, manures and other natural materials are the best way to feed your plants ecologically.
Mulch. Mulching keeps the soil soft, aerated and temperatures moderated. An adequate mulch also makes weeding—perhaps everyone’s least favorite garden activity—less necessary, and those weeds that come up easier to remove, or bury. In areas where plants require more nutrients, a good quality compost, combined with mulching can make a profound difference. Bare dirt promotes masses of weeds, hard soil crusts, depleted moisture – and is in many ways the enemy of quality soil. Some mulches, especially very close to structures, can be contribute to potential fire fuel. You may use less mulch in these areas or have your moister zones closer to structures.
Mow instead of spraying. Mowing areas not specifically planted is far preferable to the herbicide—scorched earth solution. Mowing high and dry grass can reduce fire fuel and is an important maintenance chore. In our summer dry climate, mowing can occur infrequently—just enough to keep vegetation low, but allowing roots to occupy the soil and the plants often to produce flowers that can attract pollinators and provides habitats for them.
Prune. Pruning should be done periodically to keep certain plants in the desired height and size range. This promotes fresh new growth and often, flower and fruit production. Pruning can renew declining plants and to
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Garden Terroir
To experience real terroir, we need to respect our terroir and avoid using chemicals and pesticides. Supporting “organic” or ecologically respectful wine producers, farmers, nurseries and food producers as much as possible supports change in this area. Commercial landscape spaces, neighborhood associations, and home gardeners, can also contribute positively to our environment. To experience the real expression of our landscaped spaces, we need to use plants that like what our soil and microclimate and minimize the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
We believe in an organic gardening approach to both installation and maintenance of landscapes. That gardens and landscapes function best
when plants are situated in the right place, in appropriate soils and irrigated properly (or not if that is what they prefer). Using plants that thrive where you live eliminates a lot of the intervention—often chemical—when plants are grown in the wrong place, soil, and moisture regime.