SIRS BRANCH #1 GARDENNING GROUP

DECEMBER/JANUARY IN YOUR GARDEN

Table of Contents 12/5/07

Before you start reviewing this Month In Your Garden, review this table of contents, and review only the sections that interest you. Otherwise you are likely to not have time for the sections of interest to you.

Pages 2 & 3, sections 4A-K need to be rewritten and shortened, but time didn’t permit. Bear with me on the excessive space on roses. However, if you are going to plant roses in January or February, it is important that you research the subject. With around 2000 varieties, selecting the best for you may take a little time. Roses are relatively inexpensive, and there are so many excellent varieties to choose from, the time you spend researching them will be time well spent. You will be enjoying them for many years, so pick the best that meets all or most of your objectives. Do your own selecting and avoid recommendations from well meaning friends, but with limited experience and different objectives.


 

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1. Suggested gardening resolutions for 2008

1. Replace poorly performing roses.

2. Automatic irrigation, up date..

3. What should I plant or replant in December and January

A. Annuals-and perennials. B. Bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers to plant

4. Consider bare-root plants that you should plant: Deciduous perennials-roses, trees, bushes, shrubs,

2. A. Roses B. AARS roses 2008-1998,

3. C. Regan’s, D. Edmunds, E. Disease resistance as of 1990. Favorites; F-Peninsula Rose Society 1996,

G-Rayford Redell 1996, H. Family Circle 1997 I. Filoli, J. Kathie Guthrie, K. Choices to make, L. Plant

sites and site preparation, M. Recommended sources,

4. N. Pruning- January- February-instructions, O. Spray, P. Resistant AARS roses.

5. SPECIAL NOTE on bare-root plants of all types:

6. Camellias, Azaleas & Rhododendrons: Species .

5. 7. Camellias, Azaleas & Rhododendrons:

8. Dormant bushes, vegetables, shrubs, berries, fruit and shade trees, vines & plants:

9. Persimmons:

  1. Peony cultivars adaptable to our area.

  2. Soil preparation

  3. Fertilize. Lawns, camellias, azaleas, rhododendrons, citrus, cymbidiums and winter annuals

  4. Clean up

  5. Peaches & nectarines- disease

6. 15. Roses

  1. Insects: Spray over-wintering egg stages of mites, aphids, scale and some worms and fungus spores

  2. Sucking insects, their control and systemic insecticides

18. Scale on cymbidium orchids and other orchids

19. Snails & slugs.

20. Weeds

21. Pruning. When and when not to

  1. Dividing and/or digging up bulbs, tubers, etc.

  2. Automatic irrigation systems

  1. 24. Irrigation:

25. Protect against frost (December & later.

  1. CHRISTMAS PLANTS & OTHERS

  2. Watering of potted blooming and actively growing house plants

  3. Displaying and watering poinsettias and other plants: There are at least 3 ways of displaying them

  1. 29. Care of gift plants after Christmas

30. Care for living Christmas trees in the house before and outside after Christmas:

  1. Care of Zygo cacti such as Christmas cactus.

  2. Houseplants: Care

  3. Humming bird feeders

  4. Espaliered camellias

35. Christmas Gifts: Magazines & books, Garden supplies-tools, gloves,

Green gifts of the season can live to see another year, by Victor Vool Amaryllis,

9. living Christmas trees, ornamental fruits and vegetables, cyclamen, orchids, topiaries, poinsettias

10. An incomplete condensed table of All America Rose Selections (AARS)

11. Measures to foil the frosts-Roberta Floden