Home & garden news, upcoming events around Sonoma
Resourceful gardeners rely on honeybees to help pollinate their fruit trees and other plants. Master Gardener April Lance will outline how to create a welcoming habitat for bees at a free workshop on April 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experimental Farm, 7777 Bodega Ave. in Sebastopol. Lance, [...]
Rose Garden shorts: Program offers guidance on Medicare maze
Program offers guidance on Medicare maze For those considering filing for retirement or Medicare benefits online, a Social Security representative will be at the Rose Garden Library on Jan. 24 at 11:30 a.m. to offer free guidance. Appointments are not necessary, but if you have specific questions bring your Social Security number, birth record if [...]
Did US ‘climate weapon’ knock-out Russian probe? — RT
Russian space experts are struggling to decode fresh telemetry signals received from the stricken Phobos-Grunt probe. Meanwhile, rumors are circulating that America’s ionosphere research site in Alaska caused the spacecraft’s failure. On Wednesday night, the European Space Agency’s station in Perth, Australia, established communication with Phobos-Grunt, which has been rotating helplessly around the Earth since [...]
December to-do list
This list of garden chores and plant suggestions is from the Santa Clara Master Gardeners. Protect plants from frost by placing stakes around tender plants and covering with clear plastic or fabric such as a sheet or old blanket. Don’t let the plastic touch the foliage. Wrap larger plants with strings of small Christmas tree [...]
Wedding: Zapata-Bur
Miss Selina Alys Zapata and Dr. Andres Martin Bur were united in marriage at 3 p.m. March 26, 2011 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in McAllen, TX. the double-ring ceremony was officiated by Father Thomas Luczak. The bride’s parents are Ms. Dora Zapata & Mr. Erasmo Zapata of Edinburg, TX. Parents of the groom are [...]
Planting And Caring For Knockout Roses
To plant or if you are simply caring for knock out roses there are a few things those interested in rose gardening should know. When caring for roses, rose planting, rose bush care as well as when to plant roses, organic rose gardening and even growing roses for cuttings are all things that one should [...]
How to Maintain Knockout Roses
Knock out roses, hardy shrub roses earliest released for your industry in 2000, create medium-sized, solo blossoms in shades of red-colored and pink, depending on variety. the plant’s thorny canes create dark-green leaves that turn reddish-purple in autumn. later on from the season, the plants create orange-red rose hips that add attention throughout the winter [...]
Guidelines for growing climbing roses
growing climbing roses can be good in a vertical garden design, or they can be placed on a grid next to the house. its important to get support because they dont really have a structure. They grow wild and need a kind of pattern to follow. with a fence is a good way to train [...]
Want To Play With Steven Adler?
If you’rea singer or guitarist and a fan of early Guns N’ Roses (before all theextravagant mid-show costume changes, the riots, firing of band members, etc.),then you may soon have a chance to try out for one of two recently vacatedspots in Adler’s Appetite, the group which features Appetite for Destructionera G n’ R drummer [...]
Golden couple’s wedding cost just £27 and one shilling
A couple celebrating their golden wedding anniversary have proved a little money CAN buy you love after revealing how their big day cost them just £27 and one shilling. Teresa and Frank Openshaw, who celebrate their 50th anniversary this week, have kept all the old receipts from their wedding. And modern brides may be surprised to [...]