If possible, and if you are not already doing so, please send your club and district newsletters to the CGCI Facebook Administrator. She can receive these via US Postal Service or email (in pdf, Word or Publisher). Pat would like to place blurbs or small articles onto the CGCI Facebook page each day, but she will need your help if this is to be accomplished. And any kind of tidbit of information, advice, tips regarding gardening, floral design, landscaping, environmental concerns, etc.
If you are Facebook member, join CGCI on Facebook. Be one of the first to join! Once you are on your Facebook home page, just do a search for California Garden Clubs, Inc. The CGCI Facebook Administrator is working on this page now and learning . . .! Click here for the link. Questions, click here to send an email to the Administrator.
GARDEN PATCH POINTERS
By Robert and Hoberley Schuler
WHAT CAUSES FALL COLOR IN SOME OF OUR TREES?
Q: What causes trees to have colored leaves in the fall? Lorry Hunter, Tehachapi
A: Day length is the most important factor in the annual change of colors.
As the amount of light diminishes with each day, the production of chlorophyll (the green pigments in the leaves) slows and eventually comes to a complete stop.
GARDEN PATCH POINTERS
By Robert and Hoberley Schuler
SPICED PICKLED BEETS AND SPECIES/HYBRIDS
Q: I tasted a pickled beet made by a Master Food Preserver at their July program, “Preserving the Garden”. I have never tasted a better product. I want to plant enough to preserve my own crop. When is a good time to plant beets? Kathy Satterfield, Ontario
GARDEN PATCH POINTERS By Robert and Hoberley Schuler
PENSTEMON, HOLLYHOCKS & PERENNIALS SEEDS
Do you want a permanent flower in your garden that requires almost no summer watering, little fertilizer, that crowd out weeds, that blooms early in the spring and continues to bloom into the fall, needs very little blossom dead heading?
One of the best perennials that will do this is the PENSTEMON!!
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