Cindy Mayhle, Maintenance Manager for AAA Landscape Here are this month’s tips for keeping your trees, shrubs, flowers, and plants healthy. Grass Fertilize once a month with Ironite for a dark green lawn and less mowing. If you did not overseed the Bermuda grass, water the dormant Bermuda at least once a month. Flowers January is…
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Features, December 2020
Plants for the Holiday Season
Bonnie Nowicki, Master Gardener Hello Quail Creek neighbors. It’s time to shake off the almost year-long stresses and allow peace and joy to overcome us. Festive holiday plants are waiting to grace our tables, countertops, and patios. Support your local stores and purchase a cheerful plant or two. My December 2019 article on holiday plant…
Generals, December 2020
December Gardening and Landscaping Tips
Cindy Mayhle, Maintenance Manager for AAA Landscape Here are this month’s tips for keeping your trees, shrubs, flowers, and plants healthy. Prepare for Frosts Now If you don’t care for your sensitive trees, bushes, flowers, and vegetables before the first frost, it’s probably too late, since the first frost will permanently damage them. It is…
Generals, November 2020
November Gardening and Landscaping Tips
Cindy Mayhle, Maintenance Manager for AAA Landscape New from your Landscape Maintenance Team, each month we’ll be publishing tips for keeping your trees, shrubs, flowers, and plants healthy. They are provided by our landscaping contractor, AAA Landscape, who maintains the common areas of our community. We hope you enjoy them! Grass * Bermuda should be watered…
Features, October 2020
Add a Graceful Vine to Your Landscape
Bonnie Nowicki, Master Gardener As we continue to be ever hopeful about these challenging times in our country, perhaps envisioning a lovely arbor covered with lush greenery and fragrant flowers is just what we need to boost our spirits. Visualize a charming vine meandering up a wall, arbor, or trellis. Vines, actually, are a practical…
September 2020, Generals
Container Herb Gardening
Bonnie Nowicki, Master Gardener Two books devoted exclusively to herbs sit on my bookshelf and need attention. Both books extol the versatility and medicinal value of herbs. So much information! For this article, I decided to focus on growing herbs in containers for their beauty, practical uses, and movability. You don’t need a garden or…
Features, August 2020
Gardening for the Love of Butterflies
Bonnie Nowicki, Master Gardener A recent butterfly article in the SanDiego News gave me cause for concern about the noticeable decrease of butterflies everywhere. The article centered their attention on the tiny Quino checkerspot. Its remaining habitats are under threat from development projects, and environmental groups have filed a petition to have this butterfly added…
Features, July 2020
The Hidden Meaning of Flowers
Bonnie Nowicki, Master Gardener As our country’s health struggles continue, I delve deeper into my book collection. I was fascinated reading about the language of flowers. From ancient times, flowers have been symbolic. Greek and Romans made garlands and wreaths for their warriors. Poets have extolled the virtue of flowers over the centuries, but it…
Generals, June 2020
Sassy Succulents
Bonnie Nowicki, Master Gardener Perusing through my favorite gardening books, I can’t help but marvel at the amazing variety of succulents. They are unusual; so plump and artistic looking. In my May 2019 article on cacti, I mentioned that all cacti are succulents, but not all succulents are cacti. Succulents are plants that are able…
Generals, May 2020
Realistic Gardening
Bonnie Nowicki, Master Gardener The lazy days of summer are fast approaching. As we continue to shelter in place from the virus, many of us are planning in our minds, or even on paper, how we will enhance our yards with new plantings or exciting yard art once the local nurseries open again. During these…