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walterandersen.com facebook instagram youtube shop October 2020 STORE HOURS: San Diego 8am-5pm | Poway 9am-5pm | 7 Days-A-Week IN THIS ISSUE Stop Peeking! 1 Stop Peeking! By Melanie Potter In Memoriam 1 GardenTalk Radio Back On Air 1 It’s Bulb Season 3 Make A Fire Pit! 4 Ben: Feeding Wild Birds In Fall 5 Old Ben Specials 5 Houseplants For All Locations 6 Did You Order Seeds? 7 To Do List: October 8 It’s Good To Be The Best 8 Fall Recipe: Pumpkin Fluff 9 Purple Hopseed Bush by Monrovia Do you ever feel like you’re being Tall hedges and trees can make watched? Sure, you may be in your good neighbors and we’ll get to GardenTalk Radio own yard, but all eyes can be on you. some suggestions in a bit, but Is Back On The Air It’s a complaint we hear regularly you’ll need to start with some from customers who are looking to considerations. add privacy to their yard and divert 1) Identify your needs and what you their neighbor’s prying eyes. want a plant to do. You’d be wise continued p2 In Memoriam: Tom Dougherty If you have shopped in our Poway store, it is likely you are familiar with Tom Dougherty. He was easy to spot, unless he was wearing a hat, because Good news! The GardenTalk crew was able to negotiate a time slot his white hair stood out. There were times when on KCBQ 1170AM/96.1FM and KPRZ he would come to work with a fresh-looking hair 1210AM/106.1FM. You will be able to cut and tell coworkers how pretty his stylist was. hear the radio show at 6am Saturday Tom was a charmer. He also was a fountain of mornings. Your GardenTalk hosts knowledge when it came to plants including his are Ken Andersen, David Ross, specialties, citrus and water plants. Mark Mahady, and George Allmon. The guys will talk about the latest Tom unexpectedly passed away last month. He trends they are seeing in gardening, worked, which he loved, until his passing. Sure, seasonal topics, and more. They can he was in his 80s but he was quite vibrant. even answer your questions live Tom will be remembered for his quick wit, he was on the air if you would like to call in. funny. He had wonderful stories about his life in All of the shows will be recorded and archived as podcasts on the the Navy and when he lived in Hawaii and Palm Springs. He came to work at podcasts page on our website, and the store in 1999 which makes it hard to think of our work lives without him. on the station’s website. • If you knew Tom, think about planting a tree in his memory. • October 2020 2 Stop Peeking! continued from p1 Texas Privet by Monrovia Pittosporum ‘Silver Sheen’ Eugenia myrtifolia by Monrovia by San Marcos Growers plant. You’ll also want to know how macrophylla called ‘Maki’. This one much space you have available takes a long time to grow and needs for a plant. While a tree might not more water than you’d think to get work, you could opt for vines that established. provide good coverage. Those Carolina Laurel Cherry “Bright ‘n’ Tight” Pittosporum “Silver Sheen” by Monrovia include Pandorea, Bower Vine, Star Jasmine, Bougainvillea, Calliandra, This has an open, airy growth habit. Passion Vine, Orange Flame Vine or It doesn’t provide a dense screen Thumbergia. but one that you can see through somewhat. Now that you are focused, here are some recommendations: Carolina Laurel Cherry “Bright ‘n’ Tight” Purple Hopseed Bush Grows to 10-12’, fills in pretty densely Adds a bronze color to the garden; and fairly quickly. They can be it grows fast to 12’ and requires hedged well. The downsides are they occasional water once established. produce a poisonous berry (though not to birds who love them) which Metrosideros by Monrovia Texas Privet can be messy. So, plant them away Makes an excellent hedge and can to stay away from deciduous plants from a sidewalk or hardscape where be kept to any height and width with because they will lose their leaves the berry would stain, make a mess, pruning. and the privacy they afforded you and be slippery. They also sprout and part of the year. Ficus nitida you’ll find lots of little bushes spring- ing up. If these shrubs are planted 2) Choose plants that are in harmony Looks similar to Texas privet and against a fence with other plants with your landscape. has a very formal, Italian look to it. Makes a great ‘green wall’ effect. This in front of them, the litter and the 3) Do you have any hardscape also has berries that drop, and an spread are not much of a problem. features that could make planting a aggressive root system. Favorite choices also include challenge? Podocarpus macrophyllus and Eugenias and Metrosideros. 4) Does your HOA have any henkelii (fern pine) Eugenia myrtifolia ‘Monterey Bay restrictions. Brush Cherry’ moderately grows Both of these are usually grown as to 15 to 20 ft. tall. It has a lush 5) Since you are trying to be a tall trees but can be kept to size appearance and makes an excellent good neighbor, be aware that a tall with pruning. They grow quickly and tall evergreen screen or hedge. New plant will affect the sun and shade make a dense privacy screen. The growth remains bronze red over a patterns next door. It wouldn’t leaves are soft and look like bamboo long season. Creamy white brush- hurt to share your plans with the without the mess. The downside to like flowers are followed by rose neighbor. the macrophyllus is the superficial purple fruit. Metrosideros, or New 6) Ask yourself how much root system it develops as it gets Zealand Christmas Tree, can have maintenance you want to give a older. There is also a shrub version of continued p3 October 2020 3 Stop Peeking! continued from p2 Sweet Olive by Monrovia Christmas Berry by San Marcos Growers gray-green or variegated foliage and to keep the trunk clean. Texas Ranger / Photo: Monrovia blooms with crimson flowers that Sweet Olive (Osmanthus) cover the plant. Nectar attracts birds and insects. It’s excellent as a mass A beautiful shrub that does well in planting, hedge or specimen plant. Italian/Mediterranean gardens. If you aren’t looking to provide a Christmas Berry/Toyon fortress and opt for something that An awesome native shrub for a grows to 8’, here are suggestions. background or privacy screen. Its Texas Ranger dark green serrated leaves stay green year-round and take less Grows 6’-9’ tall and has profuse water than most horticultural variety purple blooms. plants. It gets beautiful sprays Lavatera of delicate, white flowers. Once Pruned as patio trees, the canopy is pollinated, these flowers turn into full and always in bloom with large red berries at Christmas time for purple flowers. It is a shrub so it seasonal cheer. The red berries are Lavatera by Monrovia continues to branch out along the not poisonous to people (unless you length of the trunk and it is a fast eat buckets full) and are food to grower so it requires regular pruning native birds. • Lockdown News: It’s Bulb Season By Melanie Potter Here are some hints: the days are getting shorter, some mornings the air is crisp, the calendar says that fall is here so that means?? Bulb season is upon us. That’s right, it is time to plant fall bulbs. Fall bulbs are planted in fall for blooms that appear in winter/spring! Here is what you will find at our stores. Amaryllis belladonna These fragrant pink bloomers will naturalize in your garden, multiply, and bloom year after year. The other Stop in to see our selection of bulbs Amaryllis belladonna continued p4 October 2020 4 Make A Fire Pit! Amaryllis in all the colors are due are the most popular varieties of By Melanie Potter later this month or early November. Narcissus. Leucojum Jonquils: They have dark green, Leucojum will naturalize here round, rush-like leaves and clusters meaning more and more every of small, fragrant, early, yellow year with more snow-white flowers blossoms. every late winter. As a bonus, deer, Daffodils: Without a doubt, modern squirrels, and rabbits rarely bother large flowered daffodils are the most early little leucojum corms. popular type of Narcissus planted Freesia today. Lots of colors to choose from and Paper whites: They are the early fragrant! blooming Narcissus variety with white, powerfully fragrant, clustered Hyacinth Do you know when marshmallows flowers. Easily forced indoors. taste best? Right after you take them One of the earliest spring bulbs, away from an open flame when usually appear after crocus but they are sort of oozy and brown, before tulips and have old-fashioned just before they become charred. charm combined with a sweet, They are also not too bad when strong scent. Their signature sandwiched between Graham fragrance has been used in French crackers and chocolate. Again, you perfume and they are used in Persian need a flame source so when I saw New Year celebrations. this do it yourself project in West- ways magazine; I thought it needed Iris (Bearded and Dutch) to be shared. Although all irises share sword- The project is to make your own like leaves and flowers with six fire pit and all you need is a terra spreading or drooping lobes, there Ranunculus cotta pot and saucer, aluminum foil, are groups that grow from creeping charcoal briquettes, a lighter and rhizomes while others grow from Ranunculus whatever you want to roast over the bulb structures; some iris groups are Colorful, tightly packed with many fire pit.

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