Spooky Colors for Your Garden Mexico and Japan Are Home to Beautiful Plants Make Pumpkins Last Longer
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walterandersen.com facebook.com/walterandersens twitter.com/walterandersens online store videos San Diego’s Independent Nursery Since 1928 TM OCTOBER 2017 IN THIS ISSUE Spooky Colors For Your Garden Spooky Colors 1 Plants From Mexico & Japan 1 Make Pumpkins Last Longer 1 To Do List: October 4 Come See Our Barrel! 4 Words From Walter: Trees 5 Biennials Facts & Tips 5 What’s In Your Fall Bed? 6 Poway Kokedama Workshop 6 Creating A Wildlife Habitat 7 Old Ben’s Specials 7 Holiday Open House 8 October Classes 9 Planting Horse Tail 9 Pennisetum rubrum Crinum ‘Sangria’ With Halloween just around the corner, will recall that Gomez Addams would Mexico And Japan both stores have plants that might often give roses to his wife, Morticia. If provide the spooky look you want to he were to gift her with a plant, it could Are Home To achieve in a container garden. very well be Crinum ‘Sangria’. This is a tall plant with green-black foliage Beautiful Plants Pennisetum rubrum ‘Giant’ or ‘Fire- that blooms with a pink lily-like flower. By Walter Andersen, Jr. works’ has black-purple foliage and It has a weeping habit and could steal fuzzy flower spikes. It is a tall and the show in a container. showy plant that could be the thriller in your Halloween container garden. Another black-colored thriller is Aeonuim ‘Zwartkop’. This succulent If you were a fan of the television show, The Addams Family, then you continued p2 Make Pumpkins Last Longer By Botanical Interests Autumn is here, and nothing says Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’ October like “pumpkin”. In addition to starring in delicious food dishes, there Hakonechloa macra ‘All Gold’ is a are many creative ways to decorate very bright yellow-green perennial with pumpkins for fall. Speaking of grass from Japan. ‘Golden Hakone pumpkin decorations, did you know Grass’ is often used as a common that the Jack O’Lantern came from name and it grows as a clump to an Irish myth? In the myth, Jack put about 12” tall, perhaps a little wider an ember in a hollowed-out turnip, in time. It can brighten up a shady and he became known as “Jack of the area. In coastal areas, it tolerates continued p4 full sun. Plant in rich, well drained, continued p3 10.17 2 Spooky Colors continued from p1 Aeonuim ‘Zwartkop’ Hamelia ‘Sierra Red’ will fare well in a container or you can transplant it in the garden. Hamelia ‘Sierra Red’ would be a good match with its red-orange blooms and Black Mondo Grass bright green foliage. Add some Black Mondo Grass and a Halloween pick or decorative item and you would have a versatile container garden that could be replanted for Thanksgiving. Since Black Mondo Grass is low-growing, it makes good filler for a container. Fill in with other plants such as red leaf lettuce or Scarlet Bor Kale (why not have container gardens that are partially edible)? Heuchera ‘Frosted Violet’ or Sedum ‘Dragon’s Blood’ won’t continued p3 Scarlet Bor Kale Sedum ‘Dragon’s Blood’ Red Leaf Lettuce Heuchera ‘Frosted Violet’ 10.17 3 Spooky Colors continued from p2 disappoint as filler and for a spiller, how about Black Potato Vine? For splashes of color that could also be the thriller in a container, look no further than Gloriosa Daisy ‘Autumn Colors’, Lantana, or Marigolds. Don’t miss Plectranthrus ‘Mona Lavender’. It has purple flowers and the bright green foliage is dark purple underneath! If you don’t feel like designing a Hallo- ween container, grab a pot of ornamen- tal peppers and a piece of Halloween Beschorneria yuccoides décor; put it in a container and voila; instant spooky container garden! • Gloriosa Daisy ‘Autumn Colors’ Mexico And Japan continued from p1 moist soil as you would with most ferns. Consider this for borders along shaded walks, or cool rock gardens. It is a frost hardy plant. Beschorneria yuccoides is a beautiful plant native to Mexico. It resembles yucca plants but the leaves are spindles. The long, strap-like leaves have a bright streak of yellow in the center. In early summer the plant sends up a flower spike of coral pink Black Potato Vine Lantana stalks with bell shaped yellow-green flowers three feet or more above the plant. It is great as a specimen in a container or in the soil with other landscape plants. • Special Buy! Marigolds Plectranthrus ‘Mona Lavender’ Lomandra ‘Katrinus Deluxe’ $2.99 Ornamental Peppers 1-Gallon. 3’ x 3’ Evergreen Grass. Available at both stores. Limited to stock on hand. No rainchecks. 10.17 4 Pumpkins continued from p1 TO DO LIST: Lantern” which was shortened to Jack mold from taking over. Soaking a October O’Lantern over time. No matter what carved pumpkin in a diluted bleach your creative inspiration, here are some solution has proven to be the most tips to enjoy pumpkins longer. effective method for keeping it fresh and rot-free for a full week (possibly a PLANTING [1] Choose your pumpkin carefully little longer). A soft stem, nicks, or bruises are indi- California natives and drought- [4] Do nothing—Really! cations that they may have started tolerant plants are best planted this rotting, so these pumpkins will not For carved pumpkins, several so-called time of year to get root systems hold up as long. remedies like glue and hairspray actu- established. Bulbs like Daffodils, ally cause mold to build up more [2] Decorate pumpkins quickly than doing nothing. An all- Ranunculus, Freesias, Anemones and Painted, glittered, and stenciled pump- natural pumpkin can last up to a week, more. Winter annuals like Stocks, kins are beautiful and hold up much although the carving may shrivel a Snapdragons, Pansies, and Primrose longer than carved pumpkins. little bit (a great asset for a spooky, are good for shade areas. Cool witches face!). [3] Carve only a few days ahead season vegetables, shrubs such as [5] Protect from heat All carved pumpkins look their best in early Camellias and Azaleas, and the first three days, so schedule carving Bring pumpkins inside if the weather trees that provide wonderful fall color is hot. parties accordingly. Keep carved pump- • such as Cotoneaster, Liquidambar, kins clean and sanitized to prevent and Ginko. Overseed Bermuda lawns with Annual Rye. It’s a great time to Come See Our Barrel! plant Fescue from seed or sod. WATER Our Poway store is one of six busi- nesses sponsoring and hosting a When dry Santa Ana Winds arrive, hand-painted wine barrel to preview make sure to get extra water before the 5th annual Ramona Art on plants and lawns as needed, and Wine Festival where one of the especially container plants. many events includes an auction of the barrels. The festival will be held at FERTILIZE Begent Ranch, 18528 Highland Valley Road in Ramona on November 4th For lawns, use Marathon Fertilizer from 11am to 5pm. The barrel we are for tall fescue, and Bonide DuraTurf sponsoring was painted and carved by Weed & Feed to feed grass and artist Jackie Neal, a Poway resident. • control broadleaf weeds. Feed ornamentals with Gro-Power. Feed vegetables with Gro-Power Tomato and Vegetable Food or Dr. Earth Organic Tomato and Vegetable Food. Feed citrus, avocado, and fruit trees Hand-painted by Poway with Gro-Power Citrus and Avocado resident Jackie Neal Food. Feed palms and tropicals with Gro-Power Palm Tree and Tropical Food. Do not feed Camellias until after they are finished flowering. • 10.17 5 Words From Walter Biennials Facts, Tips, & Fun Information Trees By Walter Andersen, Jr. By Botanical Interests Strawberries on a Tree? Well, not quite. Arbutus unedo com- pacta, or “Compact Strawberry Tree” is a pretty, smaller growing tree to about 8’ - 10’. Its combination of green leaves and cinnamon colored bark is eye catching. In summer, it forms Magnolia grandiflora clusters of small white blooms that Biennials live for only two years, are followed by seedpods eventually A Dwarf Magnolia producing foliage the first year and turning orange to red-orange that re- flowers the second. If you sow them semble strawberries as they mature in Magnolia grandiflora ‘Little Gem now, the foliage will grow this year, fall. The fruit is edible, but bland and Dwarf’ is a wonderful smaller growing and give you a big boom of blooms not commonly used for food. Grow it Southern Magnolia. It has large, glossy, this coming spring! as a great smaller growing tree/large green foliage and huge, fragrant 5” to shrub. It is an attractive addition to 6” white blooms from late spring into Biennial Tip: Plan your blooms! Sow almost any landscape. It is water wise fall. The great thing about these dwarf some seeds now for next spring, and once established which is another plus. magnolias is that they don’t become sow again next fall for the following huge trees as some of their relatives. spring. Since there is a bonus of This variety maxes out at about 20 to many biennials reseeding, you have 25 feet tall yet still delivers the great ensured beautiful biennial flowers magnolia blooms that everyone loves. year after year. Growing 10 to 15 feet wide, they are Hollyhock is a favorite biennial and much better suited for neighborhoods. Botanical Interests added a new one Here’s an interesting tidbit. Most of to their collection this year that has the growers leave the lower branches a wonderful story. on in case you prefer a low branching Outhouse Hollyhock: No garden tree. • should be without the prolific and Arbutus unedo compacta long-blooming hollyhock.