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An Orchid for Your Yard; a Big One (Kind Of) When Life Gives You Grapes, Make Wine! New Perennials for Spring walterandersen.com facebook.com/walterandersens twitter.com/walterandersens online store videos San Diego’s Independent Nursery Since 1928 TM MAY 2016 IN THIS ISSUE When Life Gives You Grapes, Make Wine! By Ken Andersen When Life Gives You Grapes 1 An Orchid For Your Yard 1 New Perennials For Spring 1 Rare Bird Makes A Sighting 2 Old Ben: Steller’s Jays 3 These Tomatoes Going Fast 4 Dwarf Jacaranda Packs Punch 4 New Ways To Garden 5 What Is African Blue Basil? 6 Dead Bug Brew 6 Poway Rose Show 7 May Garden Classes 8 The new WAN micro-vineyard in Poway. When it came time to ponder what is cane trained along the fence line so to do with some empty space at our you can see how both options work. New Perennials Poway store, we didn’t dwell on it for Head training (a form of spur pruning) too long and installed a micro-vineyard is one of the simplest and oldest For Spring as a demonstration garden. We methods of training grapes. It is also selected three wine grapes, Cabernet the least expensive as you do not have Sauvignon, Merlot, and Zinfandel, and to install a trellis system. However, be one table grape, Flame. To keep it sure to select grape varieties that lend simple and save space, we elected to themselves to spur pruning to get the head-train the Zinfandel, Merlot and best performance. Flame on stakes while the Cabernet continued p2 An Orchid For Your Yard; A Big One (Kind Of) By Ken Andersen Decadence® Lemon Meringue If you are fortunate to have space in your yard for a small to medium size We have two new perennials to tree, consider planting an easy to grow share for spring that sound mouth tree full of spring color. The Purple wateringly delicious. Meet Blueberry Orchid Tree, Bauhinia purpurea, fits Sundae and Lemon Meringue, new the bill! to the Baptisia (False Indigo) family. They are not a true orchid but their Decadence® Baptisias will certainly flowers look similar, hence the name. steal the show in a landscape. Their There are a number of different unusual coloration and tall, strong varieties but B. purpurea is by far the stems are a beautiful sign of warmer most common. They are dormant in weather to many homeowners. They the winter. When the flowers and then are hardy to zone 4 and will grow nearly three feet tall. When fall the seed pods fall, you will have some comes around, don’t rush to trim continued p2 continued p2 05.16 2 When Life Gives You Grapes continued from p1 If you want to plant grapes to make produce. The next step in our vineyard your own wine, here is what you can will be to add a drip irrigation system. expect to produce. You can roughly That will help boost yield but still allow figure harvesting four to five pounds regular growth despite the drought of grapes per vine. It takes about restrictions. In some areas of the 2.5 pounds of grapes to fill a bottle state, such as Paso Robles, many of with wine, so if you plant six vines the vineyards have switched to dry you can expect approximately one land farming where the only water case of wine per season. Production the vines receive is from rain. While of this quantity will not require large this may work in northern California, equipment for fermenting. The beauty where precipitation is more plentiful, it of making your own wine from a micro may be difficult to do successfully in vineyard, as opposed to brewing beer, San Diego. One of the advantages of is that if you grow your own grapes dry land grape production, aside from Decadence® Blueberry Sundae you have complete control over the the savings on water usage, is that it entire process from start to finish. can produce a better quality grape When brewing beer, you have to pur- for wine production but with slightly Perennials continued from p1 chase the raw materials to get the smaller yields than irrigated vineyards. process started. them because the seed pods add Grapes can be purchased and planted the extra bonus of winter interest. It will take a couple of seasons to get here year-round. Our staff can help you the vines fully trained and ready to select the right vines for your needs. • Blueberry Sundae has dense clusters of vibrant, deep indigo blue flowers on a compact, upright mound. It could be the thriller in a container continued from p1 An Orchid For Your Yard planting. Lemon Meringue is an clean up to do, but the show they put have drawbacks in that it is slower impressively vigorous native cultivar. on can be worth it. Just before they growing, not as profuse of a bloomer, Long, charcoal grey stems carry the leaf out in the late spring, they will be and can be somewhat rangy. That said, cool lemon yellow flowers, producing covered with beautiful pinkish purple the flowers are so spectacular that an excellent floral display atop the flowers, and I do mean covered! The they can make up for the difference. compact, upright mound of blue- Sunset Western Garden book says It also is cleaner and it readily makes green foliage. This award winner was they will reach 20-35 feet tall and wide seed pods. named Top Perennial Performer by but I have never seen one at the upper Colorado State University in 2012. • Every now and then our buyers will end of that range. There is one in the come across Bauhinia forficata, Brazilian parking lot of our Poway store and it is Butterfly Tree. This white flowering nowhere near that size. Rare Bird cousin will stay a little smaller and is This tree also has a cousin, Bauhinia covered with beautiful white flowers Makes A Sighting blakeana, or Hong Kong Orchid tree. in the spring time. Unfortunately this This larger flowering relative can be a variety is not as readily available as the real show stopper with its color and other two. • size of the flowers. However, it does Mark Your Calendars For The 17th Annual Walter Andersen Nursery Rose Show Every now and then we come across the rare, golden form of Bird of Paradise. Walter Andersen Nursery will hold our seventeenth Strelitzia reginae ‘Mandela’s Gold’ annual rose show May 14-15 at our Poway location. This is very similar to the famous orange popular event is free to enter and view and continues Bird of Paradise. This spectacular to grow with last year seeing more than 100 entries. cultivar has flaring, gold sepals and The rose show gets underway May 14 with entries being blue petals reminiscent of a crested taken from 8am-10:30am, followed by judging from tropical bird. Like the orange form, it 11am-1pm. Roses will remain on display until 4pm on May is easy to grow in the right conditions; 15. The public is invited to enter and attend the show! • however it is slightly smaller, growing to 4 feet tall. Availability is very limited on these birds. • 05.16 3 Old Ben: All About Steller’s Jays Old Ben's Specials By Old Ben Valid May 1-31, 2016 Old Ben’s Nyger Seed The best seed for attracting Goldfinches and other wild birds. 10lb. $19.97 Reg. $29.99 Old Ben’s No Mess In March of this year Wild Bird Seed I had the pleasure The no mess advantage: Seed is of visiting a friend hulled, will not sprout, birds can eat in western Montana. all the seed which attracts fewer The town, Clinton, is feeder pest. just east of Missoula. 20lb. $24.97 Reg. $42.99 One of the many birds I saw were Steller’s Old Ben’s Economy Jays. This jay is absolutely stunning campgrounds, where they beg boldly Seed Blend and May’s article is all about them. for handouts. These intelligent and A blend that will attract doves, opportunistic birds are quick to take sparrows and other birds. General Description advantage of new food sources, like The Steller’s Jay is a striking bird with bird feeders, especially those that are 20lb. $9.97 Reg. $17.99 deep blue and black plumage and a full of peanuts. They forage mainly in long, shaggy crest. The front of its trees, but may forage lower at times. Old Ben’s Hanging body is black, and the rear is deep Diet Multi-Purpose Bowl blue. The black extends midway down Ideal for water, jelly, mealworms, fruit its back and down its breast. It has Steller’s Jays are omnivores, and their and more. faint, dark barring on its wings. Adults diets are about 2/3 vegetable matter Reg. $14.99 have blue vertical eyebrows above and 1/3 animal matter. The vegetable $9.97 each eye. Those in Missoula or inland part of their diet consists of seeds, have a small white patch over the eyes. nuts, berries, and fruit, and the animal Old Ben’s Dried Mealworms matter consist of bird eggs and nest- Loaded with protein. A fantastic Habitat lings, invertebrates, small rodents, treat for chickens and wild birds. Steller’s Jays breed in dense conifer reptiles, and carrion. They eat almost 3oz. 2 for $7 Reg. $6.99 forests, but they use a wider variety of any scraps of food that humans offer. Must buy 2. forested habitats at other times of the year. They can be found from low Nesting to moderate elevations.
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