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Go Native and Sport Blooms by Melanie Potter walterandersen.com facebook.com/walterandersens twitter.com/walterandersens online store videos San Diego’s Independent Nursery Since 1928 TM JANUARY 2015 IN THIS ISSUE Go Native And Sport Blooms By Melanie Potter Go Native And Sport Blooms 1 Helping Bees 1 Tool Shed: Watering Can 2 Walter: Bare Root Fruit & Rose 3 To Do List: January 4 Old Ben: Winter Bird Feeding 5 Old Ben Specials 5 Point Loma Race Celebration 6 Holiday Recap 7 Not All Plants Like Jack Frost 7 Bababerries Are Back! 8 Coupons & Garden Classes 8 Calliandra californica Helping Bees The rains we had in November and In The Garden December will pay off in January By Botanical Interests when some California natives begin to bloom. Not all natives bloom, but many are coming into their showiest time of the year. I give high marks to these low maintenance, hard working plants. Calliandra californica A medium shrub with unusual, showy red flowers that are highly attractive to hummingbirds. It is slow-growing and reaches around 3’ high before Trichostema lanatum spreading out to a width of nearly with narrow, aromatic leaves that 6’. Its dark green leaves are like tight You’ve probably heard by now that are shiny green on top and woolly miniature ferns, overshadowed by bees in the U.S. are disappearing. white underneath. Through summer, red flowers that are reminiscent of a There’s plenty you can do in your appear the 1 foot long clusters of feather duster (hence the name, Fairy garden to help local bee populations blue (typically) flowers with long Duster). The seed pods are like mini- survive and thrive. The following recurved stamens. It’s in stock and snow peas which explode when ripe. tips will help you create a beautiful already blooming. garden that is helpful to bees and Trichostema lanatum other beneficial insects. Arctostaphylos ‘John Dourley’ Also called California Rosemary and Foliage is an attractive orange-red that 1. Create Diversity and Color Wooly Blue Curls, this plant’s foliage fades to gray-green by mid-summer. resembles Rosemary. It grows to Some creatures may be color blind, Clusters of pink flowers are abundant but not bees. The more color and 3-4 feet tall and sprawls to 4-5 feet continued p2 the wider variety of flowers in your continued p4 01.15 2 Natives continued from p1 Arctostaphylos | ‘John Dourley’ Ceanothus ‘Diamond Heights’ over a long blooming season followed Salvia spathacea by berries that are purple-red. It’s a A low-growing semi-evergreen herb- Tool Shed: dependable ground cover selection aceous perennial sage with a ground- with year-round interest. Deluxe Watering Can cover mounding habit 1 to 2 feet tall By Len Schultz, UCCE Master Gardener Arctostaphylos ‘Sunset’ and spreading slowly by underground rhizomes to about 4 feet in time. The A shrub to 5 to 8 feet tall with shiny plant is slightly sticky to the touch with green leaves that are bright copper pleasingly aromatic arrow-shaped when young and has new stems light green leaves that can grow to 6 covered with fine white hairs. Mature inches long and are wrinkled on top bark is light brown with age but sheds and hairy beneath. The deep rose- to reveal new honey-brown-colored pink flowers grow in large pagoda- bark. Flowers are short clusters of like whorls on 30 inch tall flower pinkish-white blooms. stalks and bloom into summer. As a Master Gardener, I am always Verbena ‘De La Mina’ on the lookout for tools that make Ceanothus ‘Diamond Heights’ gardening easier. Last year, I was A tidy growing evergreen herbaceous If you want some show-stopping wandering around Walter Andersen subshrub with a mounding habit to 18 foliage, look no farther than Ceanothus Nursery in Poway looking for to 24 inches tall by 2 to 3 feet wide ‘Diamond Heights’ with its lime colored something on which I could spend with mid-green delicately dissected leaves striped with dark green. It stays my Hedge Fund$. It was then foliage and clusters of sweetly fragrant that I spotted the Bloem Deluxe low; growing to about 1’ tall, is drought dark purple, star-shaped flowers with Watering Can. There were a number tolerant and has no trouble covering purple stamens. This plant can bloom of features that attracted me to slopes. most of the year with a peak in spring • it. First was the capacity. It is 2.5 and summer and the flowers rise up gallons. The larger the capacity, on stalks 8 inches to hover above the the fewer fill-ups. It has a very large opening, making filling easy. I also foliage. like the detachable sprinkler head. I Mirabilis californica can easily take it off to water under foliage or leave it on to water a This perennial is a trailing wider area. But the best feature is to ascending shrub and has the top handle. When filled with 2.5 plenty of stems arising from gallons of water, it can be a little the base with pretty rose- heavy, especially if you need to pink flowers. It goes dormant Salvia spathacea carry it a distance. The top handle Photo: Moosa Creek Natives after flowering so place it Nursery eases the carrying. It also works where when dormant it well when watering. The basket won’t be noticeable. handle design allows for accurate Mirabilis californica control of the flow of water. With Photo: Charlie Jones its sturdy construction, I have found the Deluxe Watering Can to be a good investment. • 01.15 3 Words From Walter Even though they are now potted and will bloom right in their pots, they still can be handled as bare root roses until Bare Root Fruit And Roses they have pushed out more than 2” of By Walter Andersen, Jr. new growth. are planting, Roses prefer a warm, sunny location that be careful not gets at least six hours of direct sun. Dig to plant the a hole about 20”wide and 18” deep. Mix trees too deep. A good rule of thumb the soil you take out of the hole 50/50 when finished planting, the first roots with E.B. Stone Planting Compost, or growing horizontally from the trunk Sunshine Rose and Flower Mix. In the should not be any deeper than one inch. very bottom of the hole mix 1-2 cups Usually you can check the stem of the of Ada Perry’s Magic Formula for roses, tree near the roots and see different and a couple of hands-full of Gro-Power shades of brown/tan where the soil All Organic Soil Conditioner with the level was at the grower. Trees planted existing soil, and cover with about an too deep may not survive because the inch of the soil/compost mix and tamp bark stays too wet and starts to rot. firmly. Then form a mound of the 50/50 Bare Root Fruit Trees This may not happen right away, but mix in the center of your planting hole could show up in a year or two. Use and distribute the roots evenly around I’ve got some great reasons to buy plastic tie tape and tie your trees to it. The bud union or graft should be bare root fruit trees. For starters, you the stakes to keep them from blowing about 2” above the surrounding soil. Fill get the best selection as far as varieties over. Be sure to trim back your new the remaining portion of the planting go. Best of all, they cost less than when bare root trees, maybe as much as 1/3 hole with the 50/50 mix taking care you purchase them in a container. If off the top should be cut back, which not to leave any air pockets, and tamp you need more persuasion, they are will encourage a lower branching tree. lightly. Make a basin approx. 18” to 24” easier to plant as you don’t have to Who wants to go up on a ladder 10 or in diameter around your newly planted remove them from containers. Even 12 feet high to pick fruit? You can do rose to concentrate the water around though they are bare now, in a couple some growing season pruning to keep the existing roots and water thoroughly. of months the trees will start to leaf your tree to size if it is sending up too Initially water approximately once out and you should have lots of new much top growth. You don’t need to per week unless we have regular rain, growth by summer. Some varieties may wait until the tree goes dormant to increasing to 2-3 times per week this have 3 or 4 feet of new growth by then, prune back the new growth. summer. Container plants may need and some will fruit as soon as next year. daily watering during the summer. With proper planning, you can harvest Start fertilizing your new trees in March fresh fruit almost all year long! or April, and repeat the fertilizer about Fertilize your roses monthly from every three months until September January until the end of September Right now, we have a very good using Gro-Power Citrus and Avocado with either Gro-Power, or Dr. Earth Rose selection, over 200 varieties to choose or Dr. Earth Fruit Tree Food. and Flower Food. We also recommend from if you include blueberries, grapes, two applications of Ada Perry’s Magic olives, and cane berries. Download Bare Root Roses Formula for Roses. Apply once in the list of fruit trees in stock at www.
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