Page 56 - Sonoma County Gazette - May 2019

May 4 - May 5 ~ Peak Blooms - Perfume Harvest Demonstrations ~ Experience Living History in California’s only rose perfume fields. Demonstrations all day. $2.00 donation, 10a-5p. Russian River Rose Co., 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, russian-river-rose.com
May 4 ~ Eco-Friendly Garden Tour ~ Highlights Russian River-Friendly and Bay-Friendly landscaping best practices. Free, Sonoma & Marin Counties, savingwaterpartnership.org
May 11 - May 12 ~ Mother’s Day Weekend Open Gardens! ~ $2 donation, 10a- 5p, Russian River Rose Company, 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, 707-433- 7455, russian-river-rose.com
May 18 - May 19 ~ Sights & Scents In An Enchanted Rose Garden ~ Meet Angela Sage Larsen, author of the Petalwink books! $2 donation, Fairy Story Time Sat: 11a & 2p, Sun: 2p, Garden & Nursery 10a-5p, Russian River Rose Company, 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, russian-river-rose.com
May 19 - Nov 17 ~ OAEC Garden Tours
May is always an exuberant month in gardens and the natural world—winter is behind us and the dry season lies ahead. It is perhaps the easiest month to have a showy garden, it seems like everything wants to burgeon with growth and flowers.
~ Perennial food crops and multi- purpose plants. Free, Sat & Sun 10a-5p, Garden Tours 1st & 3rd Sundays 1-2:30p, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, 15290 Coleman Valley Rd, Occidental, 707-874-1557, oaec.org, oaec@oaec. org May 21 ~ Appreciation of Betty Young’s accomplishments towards the understanding, appreciation, and preservation of California native plants. 7:30p Luther Burbank Art and Garden Center., 2050 Yulupa Ave., Santa Rosa, milobaker.cnps.org
May 25 - May 27 ~ Memorial Weekend - Tea and Memories in the Rose Garden ~ Sip a delicious cup of organic hot or iced tea, and RELAX as you enjoy the lovely roses. $2 Donation, Gardens: 10a-5p, Tea Service: 10a-4p, Russian River Rose Co.,, 1685 Magnolia Dr, Healdsburg, 707-433-7455, Russian River Company, russian-river-rose. com/, info@russian-river-rose.com
Master Gardener
May 4 ~ Can Monarchs be Saved from Extinction? Suzanne Clarke covers caterpillar and butterfly stages, andwhat we can do to help Monarchs survive. FREE, 10:30a Central Santa Rosa library, 211 E Street, Santa Rosa, 707-308-3020, sonomalibrary.org
Ongoing
Lowwater-usegardenLandscapeDesign Templates - Eight landscape design templates, and two plant substitution lists.savingwaterpartnership.org/ landscape-design-templates
Pick Your Own Garden Produce - For just $20 per month or $200 per year, come weekly to pick fresh vegetables from our Wildlife Education Garden. Call or email and help to support wildlife rescue. Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue, 403 Mecham Rd, Petaluma, 707-992-0274,scwildliferescue.org/
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It is also the month of Mother’s Day, and if your mother is into plants or gardening, there is no problem finding beautiful plant gifts (or gift cards from nurseries). Mother’s Day—due to the florist industry—is also associated with roses. While roses have gotten a bad rep in some circles—they,
for the most part, are amazing plants, surprisingly robust, incredibly varied
in form, color, and fragrance. There are hundreds of species of rose and thousands
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of hybrids—no one could grow them all even if they wanted to. Some roses have a reputation for being fussy—avoid these. Rose breeding in the last 4 decades has focused on improving the entire plant— growth, form, healthy attractive foliage, strong and various fragrances, extended flowering periods. There’s a rose out there for anyone—about the only thing they don’t tolerate is deep shade.
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Did you know? There are four native species of rose growing in Sonoma Co.
as well as several naturalized from other parts of the world. On the northern Sonoma Coast we have Nootka rose
(Rosa nutkana), in the redwoods, we have redwood rose (R. gymnocarpa), in the dry woodlands and chaparral we have ground rose (R. spithamea) and along creeks and
garden-club.html, scwildliferescue.org
Native Plants. May and June are peak wildflower months in Sonoma Co., and every effort should be made to enjoy one or more of the many parks and open spaces. The Sonoma Coast is at its best. If you haven’t checked out the Jenner Headlands,
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this is the time. Salt Point has great coastal prairie wildflowers and bizarre tufoni
riparian zones we have California rose
(R. californica). All have simple 5 petalled fragrant flowers, typically pink. The California and Nootka rose spread rapidly underground, so are not suitable in small landscapes.
Daily Acts Monthly Garden Days - Join us for our monthly volunteer days to give our model sites some love! Our water-wise demonstration gardens and food forests in Petaluma, Sebastopol, Windsor, and Cotati can only do their job of inspiring change when they are well maintained. We’ll get our hands in the soil with easy garden maintenance like weeding, mulching, dead heading and planting. We’ll also present a plant of the month to satisfy your educational yearnings! We hope you will come grow the community around these special gardens, a few hours at a time.
May 4 ~ Resilient Homes & Hubs Tour - Cotati, Petaluma & Windsor ~ Eco- Friendly self-guided Tour, showcasing water-wise landscapes. Free, 10a-1p, Cotati, Petaluma & Windsor, dailyacts.org/events-1/?eid=11010
Petaluma - Cavanagh Community Food Forest (Corner of 8th and G St.) 2nd Thursdays from 10am-12pm. Email liz@dailyacts.org for more info.
Cotati - Pocket Park Food Forest (Intersection of LaSalle & Loretto) 4th Fridays from 10am – 12pm. Email dustin@dailyacts.org for more info
Sebastopol - City Hall and Library Landscape (7140 Bodega Ave.) 3rd Wednesdays from 10am-12pm. Email liz@dailyacts.org
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sandstone rocks that resemble filials and honeycomb. In the interior, some of the parks burned two years ago will still have great examples of fire-following annuals and perennials. Enjoy them before the longer lasting trees, and shrubs fill back in—you may not see them again for decades. Annadel, Sugar Loaf and Hood Mt. are great examples. Another excellent place to enjoy natural landscape is Lake Sonoma—miles of varied trails through some excellent examples of Sonoma Co. You don’t need a boat for this, though if you do have one, the lake offers a great place to get away.