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Quotation of the Week:
"There is nothing more agreeable in a garden than good shade, and without it, a garden is nothing."
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Nick's Planting Suggestions
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New Roses for the Landscape: Easy Elegance® Rose Collection
Their name says it all--Easy Elegance! This beautiful collection was hybridized to be superior in beauty, disease resistance, length of bloom, and overall hardiness. They represent the ideal landscape plant, tons of reliable color with very little maintenance. Grow them massed for color, mixed into perennial gardens, and in containers. They are perfect for those who think they cannot grow roses! Yamagami's is pleased to offer four roses from the Easy Elegance® Rose Collection.
'Little Mischief' has deep rosy pink blossoms with white eyes, which fade to petticoat pink, giving each compact bush a multi-colored look. A compact shrub rose, it grows 2' to 3' tall and wide covering itself with small (to 1" wide) double blossoms. Want a flowering border that dogs and cats are reluctant to cross? This is your plant!
'Paint the Town' has clusters of rich red blossoms covering its glossy green foliage. Each fully double blossom is 3.5" across with the shape of a traditional hybrid tea. A compact spreading shrub rose, it grows 2' to 3' tall and wide. This exceptionally disease resistant rose will paint your garden red spring through fall. Use it in a container to spill gently over the sides for a glowing red display at your doorstep or on your deck.
'Sunrise Sunset" is a dense spreading plant with bright fuchsia pink blossoms which shade to apricot in the center. Its brilliant semi-double blossoms are 2" to 2.5" across and cover the blue-green foliage most of the year. It is an ideal blooming groundcover growing to about 2.5' tall and 3' wide.
'Yellow Submarine' features clusters of lemon yellow blossoms, which slowly change to pale yellow, then finally to creamy white. Each bush looks like a creamy lemon confection. With an upright habit 2' to 4' tall and wide, 'Yellow Submarine' plays well with other shrubs or mixes well in a perennial border.
All the Easy Elegance®Roses are shrub roses on their own roots (rather than being grafted) which means they are sturdier and need less water once established than conventional roses. They actually come with a 2 year guarantee to grow! Some varieties are in limited supply. Quick! Come in to fill those blah spots in your garden with Easy Elegance Roses. Let our Nursery Professionals help you succeed...the first time!
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 Worried about precious water running off from your sprinklers? Well, maybe you should be. This time of year our clay soil forms a crust that repels water, so that much of the fertilizer and other garden products that you apply are simply washed away with the runoff down your gutters and into the bay. What can you do? Make your garden soil porous with Soil Pick Clay Buster from San Diego Organics. It is a soluble Humic Acid and Yucca product specifically for hard-to-penetrate soils and salt problems. It also contains organic food grade polymers (derived from natural gas) to keep soil permeable. Use it on your lawn for a visible difference! Protect our watershed, save water (and $), and have a healthier garden with Soil Pick Clay Buster and the garden pros at Yamagami's Nursery.
Click here to go to our website yamagamisnursery.com to learn how to get a special discount on Soil Pick Clay Buster by using your Watershed Watch Card.
For more info on saving water, attend one of our FREE Watering 101 Classes. See Coming Events for details.
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Grow the Scent of the Islands at Home
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Not able to make it to the Islands this year? Why not try growing the scent most associated with Hawaii in your garden, the heavenly fragrant Plumeria (Frangipani). Plumerias can and will thrive here with the proper care. Yamagami's offers different colors and sizes along with a FREE Guide for success.
There are a couple of important things to remember about Plumerias. First, they are frost tender. For this reason we recommend growing them in containers so that they can easily be moved to a protected spot or even indoors during frosty weather. Luckily, for their size, they have a relatively small root system and grow happily in the same container for years. If you absolutely want to try them in the ground, a raised bed (the higher, the better) works best.
The second thing to remember is that they go dormant (lose leaves) in the winter and do not want to be watered while dormant. This is easy to manage when they are in  containers but can be difficult to manage for plants in the ground. Some people dig them up and store them bareroot during the winter, while others have tried patio umbrellas and makeshift covers. Again, a raised bed will keep them from getting too soggy and rotting.
Plumerias bloom best in sun and branch naturally after blooming. They enjoy Maxsea Fertilizer and thrive in Gardner & Bloome Blue Ribbon Blend Potting Soil. Come to Yamagami's while our selection is still good and let one of our helpful Nursery Pros help you succeed with Plumeria. Someday you'll be able to make leis from your own blossoms!
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Saturday, June 21 at 10 AM; Sunday June 22 at 2 PM; and Saturday, June 28 at 2 PM.: WATERING 101 Classes. Learn how to most efficiently water your garden, keeping your plants healthy without wasting water. Get all your watering questions answered by Alan Tagami, Landscape Consultant. Alan will provide basic guidelines on how to water different plants in the landscape. FREE! Come early for a seat; no registration necessary.
 Saturday, June 21 at 3 PM: Summer Fruit Tree Pruning Class with local fruit tree guru Nancy Garrison. This is the time to control the size of your fruit trees. Learn pruning tips and techniques from one of our leading fruit tree experts. Class will include a lecture and demonstration. Fee of $20 is rebated as a $20 coupon good for a week after the class for merchandise. Space is limited so prepaid registration is recommended. Walk-ins will be allowed only as space permits.
Saturday, June 28 at 10 AM: ‘When Wildlife Goes...Wild!’ A garden talk with Tom Perkins of of Woodstream. Tom discusses strategies for coping with garden "thugs" like raccoons, squirrels, skunks, rats, rabbits and deer, who are causing more damage every year. Tom is an expert in repellents and traps. FREE!
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Heat Relief – for your Palate
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A pepper or two in the salad, a big bowl of chili, maybe some stuffed hot peppers...all these are delicious, if you are used to eating spicy food. For those who don't know  exactly how hot is too hot, here's some advice:
Many people bite into a hot pepper only to discover too late that it's a little beyond their tolerance range. The heat in a pepper comes from capsaicin, and the hotter the pepper, the more capsaicin it contains. There are a number of remedies for the effects of eating a pepper that is too hot for you. Over time, your taste buds can build up a tolerance to the heat of peppers and you won't have to resort to the cures mentioned below--at least, not as often.
Rule number one is to never drink cold water when eating peppers. The capsaicin, which is an oil, does not mix with the water but is instead distributed to more parts of the mouth, spreading the heat even more. The old saying that "water spreads the fire" is quite accurate. Many people recommend drinking tomato juice or eating a fresh lemon or lime, with the theory being that the acid counteracts the alkalinity of the capsaicin.
More useful solutions include drinking milk (rinse your mouth with it as you sip) (because capsaicin is oil soluble) or eating buttered rice or bread, which will absorb the capsaicin.
Many hot pepper aficionados will tell you that the best remedy against a pepper attack is to simply eat another. And if that doesn't work, eat another one. We recommend taking that advice with some grains of rice--or a few slices of buttered bread.
For those of you who love the heat, Yamagami’s still offers several varieties of hot peppers. Olé! |
 As you can see, our seedlings are really taking off! They’ve been in the ground now for four weeks. If you are growing pumpkins, send us images from your pumpkin patch!
Stay tuned to www.pumpkinmania.blogspot.com for more Giant Pumpkin growing news from the Giant Pumpkin Kahuna, Stuart Shim.
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Recipe of the Week: Dilly Cucumber Salad |
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You'll Need:
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup white vinegar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1 tablespoon snipped fresh dill
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 4 medium cucumbers, thinly sliced
- 1/3 cup sour cream
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- In a saucepan, combine the sugar, vinegar, water, dill and salt.
- Bring to a boil over medium heat. Remove from the heat.
- Place cucumbers in a large bowl.
- Pour vinegar mixture over and toss to coat.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Drain and discard vinegar mixture.
- Stir sour cream into cucumbers.
- Cover and refrigerate until serving.
Yield: 8 servings
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"The very best for your
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Since 1948, Yamagami's
Nursery has been committed to the promotion of beauty and the plants,
products and friendly, professional support needed to attain and
maintain that Beauty. In my parents' footsteps (and Taro Yamagami’s
before them), I promise to continue that tradition. I invite you
to visit us in the nursery and on our website, yamagamisnursery.com
for help in making your yard into a beautiful garden.
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