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Sold juice for drinking water
Succulents are beautiful and save water in the garden. Master Gardener in Sonoma County is busy promoting this amazing deep sea item for sale September 10th at Petaluma Bounty Farm. Experts are ready to help buyers choose the right plants for their yards and containers.
The price is $5 for a 4-inch container and $9 for a 1-gallon container. Large samples are charged separately. Only cash and checks are accepted. 10am to 2pm 55 Shasta Street, Petaluma.
Santa Rosa
Buy perennial irises and think about spring
Add color to your spring garden now by planting perennial irises. The Santa Rosa Iris Society will have lots of great items for sale at great prices during their annual sale on September 9th. It starts at 9am and closes when all the rhizomes are gone. “Go early to pick the best,” said Anna Judd, president of the association. The sale will be held at the Luther Burbank Arts and Garden Center, 2050 Iulupa Ave., Santa Rosa.
Santa Rosa
Willow Side School Daycare is open for a summer sale.
The student-run kindergarten at Willowside School will reopen on Saturday, selling out a large plant full of native plants to make your garden greener.
Look for exotic plants such as pink-flowered Ribes sanguineum, Grindelia striata, coffee beans, and liver-leaved kequilla. They also have 'Pozo Blue' sage with fragrant leaves; Flowers of every color. trees such as broadleaf maple, black oak, and redwood sempervirens; lavavan white figs; Herbs and perennials such as daisies that bloom in fall. Full of orange, red and yellow daylilies. Kansas and milkweed for monarch butterflies.
For-profit nurseries always accept starter plants, cuttings, tubers, ceramic pots, and black nursery pots that are 1 gallon or larger.
The sale starts from 9am to 2pm at 5285 Hall Road (Willowside Road) in Santa Rosa.
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Iris and fuchsia twice
Buying new plants can be very expensive, but you can reduce costs significantly by multiplying your own plants. Nancy Fortner will be demonstrating how to propagate fuchsia and irises at a free talk and demonstration on September 11 in front of the Petaluma Garden Club.
This meeting is free and open to non-members. But anyone interested in becoming a member of this community of gardeners will have the opportunity to learn more about the club, which is now celebrating its centenary. Longtime member Cindy Hendricks talks about the club and plans to keep it going for the next 100 years.
Doors open at 9:30 a.m. and scheduled speakers at 10:45 a.m. Petaluma Veterans Memorial Hall, 1094 Petaluma Avenue. St.
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