february 2014 San Diego’s Garden Resource San Diego’s Independent Nursery Since 1928 TM In This Issue The Plants Of Love The Plants Of Love 1 BY MELANIE POTTER Red Roses 2014 Plant Trends 1 The “Plants Of The Year” Are... 1 The nursery used to sell a book entitled, Order early from a florist to avoid being left Words From Walter: Orchids 3 ‘Plants of Love’ by Christian Ratsch which empty handed, or buy your beloved a rose You Can Grow Blueberries 3 detailed the history of aphrodisiacs from A bush. Look for these red roses: Always and Old Ben: Bird Feeding Month 4 to Z, actually Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) Forever, American Dream, Chrysler Imperial, Home Vineyards 5 to Zingiber officinale (Ginger) with garlic, Darcy Bussell, Drop Dead Red, Firefighter, opium, and wheat in between. However, try In the Mood, Ingrid Bergman, Legends, Mr. Tool Shed: Product Highlights 6 passing any of those off as a valentine on Feb. Lincoln, Oh My, Oklahoma, O.L. Weeks, Specials, Coupons & Classes 7 14, and you are guaranteed to spend this day Olympiad, Papa Meilland, Trumpeter, and of love, sleeping solo on the sofa. Veteran’s Honor. Any of these planted now will deliver a bouquet this Discover Us! March or April! www.walterandersen.com Orchids facebook.com/walterandersens I asked our orchid buyer, Emily twitter.com/walterandersens Drury, which orchids would impress her as a gift on February Our Online Store 14, and her suggestions were: Watch Videos Cymbidiums, with their very showy, tall flower spikes that can be grown outside here and The “Plants Of The bloom again next year. The Year” Are... classic orchid she recommended Tuberose Bleeding Heart / Monrovia is the Phaeleonopsis, or moth BY MELANIE POTTER Rather than tout the plants that are said to orchid, in shades of white, pink, and purple heighten ardor by simmering, smoking, or which are all colors of love! sprinkling their potions, let’s take a look at continued p2 what is likely to help you score a home run. 2014 Plant Trends BY MELANIE POTTER What do neon colors, black and white, and mixed annual combos in containers have in common? These are all trends for 2014, as predicted by the folks at HGTV Home and the HGTV Home Plant Collection. It is touted that these trends provide sufficient Echinacea / Proven Winners plant choices to cover every fad and Every year the National Garden Bureau fashionable step a garden guru may take. Vibrant Color / Proven Winners selects an annual, perennial, and vegetable Will container gardening ever go out of colors of Calibrachoa, Geraniums, Petunias, as the plants of the year. This year, style? Probably not, and there are different Verbena and Dahlias. Other bright colors can Echinacea, Petunias, and Cucumbers ideas when it comes to capturing thrillers, come from Gazania, Ornamental Cabbage, walked away with the honors. spillers, and fillers and presenting them in Primrose, and Calendula. Pink, red, orange, Echinacea, also called Coneflower, was a pretty package. HGTV Home predicts and yellow colors deliver high energy, so look chosen as the perennial for the National that mixing complementary patterns in for these. design along with mixing plant varieties in Garden Bureau’s 2014 ‘Year of Program’ containers will continue to be in vogue (duh). Black and white is a classy combination that continued p3 Look for color combinations using the bright adds elegance and a modern flair. Finding continued p2 1 walter andersen nursery february 2014 The Plants Of Love continued from p1 Bleeding Heart and is a modified rhizome. To bloom every February year, a long warm growing season of at least Recommended by David Ross and well four months is required. Growing them in suited for someone who likes the colors and Garden Tasks containers is the easiest way to meet their pendulous presentation of fuchsias. A native needs. Bulbs are available in limited quantities. of Siberia, Japan, Korea, and northern China, Mini carnations, fairy primrose, and Stargazer PRUNING Wikipedia spins this tale of the Bleeding lilies are also expected. Prune roses and deciduous fruits and Heart’s origin. A Japanese legend tells the Richard Wright is in the nursery all the time ornamentals before new growth starts. story of a young man who tried to win the love of a young lady. He did this by bestowing and he is well known amongst our customers Trim back tropicals like Hibiscus and upon her a pair of rabbits (which are the first and newsletter readers. I recall his planting Bougainvillea after danger of frost passes two petals of the flower), a pair of slippers philosophy which is basically, “if you can’t to clean up any damage received during (which are the next two petals of the flower), eat it, why grow it?” He’s a strong proponent the winter. and finally a pair of earrings (which are the of planting edibles. So, at this time of love last two petals of the flower). She rejected and with Richard in mind, why not plant PEST CONTROL his affections, and, devastated, he pierced Strawberries? We’ve ordered Albion (early Give last applications of dormant sprays his heart with his sword (the middle part of season producer with good flavor), Chandler such as Liqui-Cop or Oil Spray before the flower) which caused the bleeding heart. (June-bearing plant producing medium to buds start to break on deciduous fruits Present one of these lovely plants to your large, wedge-shaped juicy fruit with exceptional significant other and recite the legend and I flavor), and Florida Radiance (developed for and ornamentals. guarantee you’ll find yourself on Facebook ‘in winter production in Florida. The fruit is firm, PLANTING a relationship’ rather than ‘it’s complicated’. conic in shape and medium in size, with bright to dark red skin and orange-red flesh. It has Last of the bare-root Roses, Fruits, and And Now For My Favorites high yields), Quinault Everbearing (a newer Ornamentals should be planted. Citrus Anything white and smelly, and remember everbearing variety that produces berries on can also be planted now. Protect from we’re talking plants here, and good smells. This unrooted runners. A great tasting strawberry frost if needed. Plant another crop of year we’ll have Pink Jasmine and Stephanotis that makes an excellent ground cover or border leaf lettuce. (sometimes we get them in heart shaped planting along walks or paths. Produces from wreaths). Also known as Madagascar Jasmine, June till frost), Seascape (these berries are day- LOOK FOR Stephanotis is a native of Madagascar and in neutral, meaning they do not have an internal San Diego, will bloom late spring through clock that is dictated by sunlight), and Sequoia Camellias and Azaleas. Cool season summer. If kept indoors, it will need plenty (bearing large, robustly flavored berries in late vegetables. Bulbs, potatoes, and garlic. of light to rebloom but does best outdoors spring and early summer). when done blooming. Gardenias (look for Plant berries together now and in a few the grafted varieties which perform better in months dip in chocolate, together. Follow this full sun and our crummy soil) and tuberoses advice and I expect to attend a lot of weddings 0 are also winners. Tuberose is native to Mexico in 2014! 2014 Plant Trends continued from p1 black, or almost black plants is easy. Look for Mondo Grass, Pansies, Aeonium, Ajuga, Heuchera, Alocacia, Coleus, New Zealand Flax, Cordyline, and Sambucus. White additions include Bacopa, Helichrysum, Nemesia, Alyssum, Argyanthemum, Impatiens, Cleome, Zinnias, Dipladania, Snapdragons, Kalanchoe, Lobularia, and Pentas. Neon colors exploded in popularity last year Black & White / Lime Green Foliage and they haven’t worn out their welcome yet. Proven Winners To add neon colored pop to your plantings, that color or paint something that serves as look for brilliantly-colored geraniums, an unexpected container (check out Pinterest Bougainvillea, and Gerber daisies. Use for ideas). Finally, if you need a refresher lime green foliage to add a shock value to on how to plant a container, refer to Chuck containers by planting Ipomea, Heuchera, McClung’s article, www.walterandersen.com/ Lysimachia, Dracaena, Alternanthera ‘Jacob’s wp-content/uploads/2013/07/News0713_ Coat’ Yellow, and Canna Lily. F12.pdf, on page 4. Both stores will have If you’re having difficulty finding just the right container gardening classes this spring; on 2/8 color for your plantings, you can use that hard- at 9:30am in our Poway store and on 3/15 at to-find color as a container choice. Find a pot 9am in our San Diego store. 2 february 2014 walter andersen nursery Words 0 From Walter You Can Grow BY WALTER ANDERSEN, JR. Blueberries Cymbidium Orchids Brighten Your Home Here is a great blooming plant to brighten air circulation, away from the heater vents for your home during cool winter months. the longest lasting blooms. Cymbidium Orchids start blooming as the You should water them about once a week; weather cools, some as early as November. if they are placed in a saucer check to be sure They come in many colors and shades. The it does not overflow. Drain away excess water blooms last a long time also. You can bring so they don’t stand in it. You can also place them indoors when the blooms are pretty them in a shady area outdoors and give them much fully open. If you bring them indoors a good soaking, moving them back after the BY WALTER ANDERSEN, JR. when the buds have not opened fully, those container drains. buds may abort, so check carefully to see Who does not like Blueberries? They won’t need to be fed until they finish they are in full bloom.