‘Pre-Spring Guide & Whats UP! New & Exciting Projects by Kimberly Childers • kimberlychilders@att.net


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ Breathe in the clear blue cloudless sky, sweet songbirds, and chilly breezes of March. It’s time to sit, reclaim your shel- tered garden table and christen it as you sip steaming Jasmine- Green tea with Pimm’s orange-filled choco- late covered cookies, garden catalogues and favorite periodicals from the UK; quite the perfect way to usher in the new season with inspiring designs and new ideas. Spring Equinox on the 20th of this month brings all


sorts of noticeable changes in the garden and around town. Flowers and verdant leaves will soon be fill- ing bare branched trees sprinkling falling petals on sidewalks. Swell- ing buds, and tiny crocus flowers in purple, white, and striped hopefully dot your little piece of para- dise. There is noth- ing quite like notic- ing their Lillipu-


tian blooms on a bright morning, breathing invigorating air and waking sleeping winter spirits from their dreams.


New and exciting projects are


already filling my head and there is much to do after winter days have faded. Ideas of cut flower collec- tions for the garden are beginning to stir. Beautiful flowers seem to soothe the restless soul and ignite a passionate appetite for unimagina- ble color and delightful fragrance.


If planting in big pots or in the ground you can use a peat free or- ganic compost blend, adding grit to


help with drainage, bone meal and other nutrients to promote healthy plants and bloom. A sprinkling of phosphate on all spring plantings will promote vigorous root, tuber and seed development.


You’ll want to pick up some Maxsea, wa-


fragrant blossoms, a small task for such reward. Plant lovely cosmos, salvias, faerie-like foxglove, Frit- illaria imperiali or Chocolate and checkered Fritillaria and Ranucu- lus asiaticus. It’s time to scatter poppy seeds in your gardens. They will grow into luscious crepe paper florescence, beautiful to bring the magic of the garden in- side. Remember to singe the freshly cut tips of the stems after picking


to


help your poppy flowers last longer. The amazing list goes on and on, you decide! Explore. . .


Little green tips


ter soluble seaweed based amend- ments that have been developed and created in Redway since 1967 by John Dimmick, our close neigh- bor in Humboldt County.


These


natural formulas are a ‘must have’ for every gardener. ‘Good for your plants


and kind to the Earth.’ MAX- SEA-


PLANT- FOOD. COM


Local nurser- ies are brimming


with bulbs to plant which will quietly plump up from the heavy winter rains and offer a profusion of evocative blooms. Bring home Schizostylis coccinea, Gladiolis, Zantedeschia aetheopica, Allium giganteum which bees love. Think about planting lilliums in your cut- ting garden, cultivated for more than 5000 years in the Tigris Eu- phrates Valley, Ancient Egypt. They are very hardy and in every color except blue! Not unlike many large blooming flowers, lilies usually require staking to support their magnificent, outra¬¬geously


“I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.” ~ Thomas Henry Huxley


emerge from the moist Earth and will soon grow into a spectacular profu- sion of color, design, tex- ture and fragrance, wait-


ing only to fill the vases you have captured them for.


There is something about the garden, hidden treasures that lie beneath the soil, some deep quenching, unexplainable mean- ing, some primal essence we’ve forgotten. Tiny birds punctuate leafless branches and tangled sweet briar. Sunsets weave in watercolor washed skies with frayed ribbons of fuchsia, soft peach and silver against dark blue-grey of dusk, turning to evening. Remember the end is only the beginning. . .


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Sports Trivia


2


“FEDERER” CAN BE TYPED ENTIRELY WITH THE LEFT HAND.


THE AVERAGE GOLF BALL HAS 336 DIMPLES.


THERE ARE 18 MINUTES OF


Learn to enjoy every minute of


your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of


yourself to make you happy in the


future. Tink how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether


it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and


savored. Earl Nightingale


TOTAL ACTION IN A BASEBALL GAME.


THE TWO GOLF BALLS ALAN SHEPHARD HIT ON THE MOON WITH A SIX-IRON (ONE THAT WENT INTO A CRATER ANOTHER THAT “SAILED FOR MILES AND MILES”) ARE STILL THERE.


ABOUT 46% OF PRO


FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMERS PLAYED FOR ONE TEAM DURING THEIR NFL CAREERS.


Thurs Mar 2 - Brian Rashap & Friends Fri Mar 3 - Bootleg Honey Sat Mar 4 - Misner & Smith


Sun Mar 5 - Gypsy Kisses - Mardi Gras Mon Mar 6 - Open Mic with DJ Loisaida Thurs Mar 9 -Stand Up Comedy Fri Mar 10 - Harrison Stafford & The Professor Crew Sat Mar 11 - The Thugz Sun Mar 12 - Celtic/Irish Jam Mon Mar 13 - Open Mic with DJ Loisaida Tues Mar 14 - The Tule Alltet Thurs Mar 16 - Disclaimer _ Jazz is Hope Fri Mar 17 - Saint Patrick’s Party Sat Mar 18 - Luv Planet


Sun Mar 19 - Gold Coast Jazz Band Mon Mar 20 - Davina & The Vagabonds Thurs Mar 23 - Buzzy Martin Fri Mar 24 - Soul Fuse


Sat Mar 25 - Foxes in the Henhouse Mon Mar 27 - Open Mic with DJ Loisaida Thurs Mar 30 - Afrolicious Thurs Apr 20 - Pablo Moses Fri Apr 21 - Sang Matiz Sat Apr 29 - The Bloodstones


Singer-Songwriter Competition


every Wednesday through April 12th. Live Entertainment Nightly, check our full schedule on website.


Restaurant & Music Venue 8240 Old Redwood Hwy, Cotati 707.795.7868


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