Marina Tree & Garden Club

Just a reminder for May... It is peak swarm season for honey bees! If you should have a swarm land in your yard - call a beekeeper! Monterey Bay Anarchist Beekeepers (831) 601-4758

Summer Gardening Class through MPC! Horticulture 425 SUCCESSFUL GARDENING TECHNIQUES Tuesday (Zoom) & Friday (MPC Greenhouse)... 10am-10:50am June 8 - July 16, 2021 This course covers fundamental horticultural techniques for home gardeners including organic methods, soil management, planting, fertilizing, irrigation, and pest and disease control. This course will be offered in a hybrid format with Zoom meetings, on-line materials through CANVAS and face-to-face demonstrations near the MPC Greenhouse. Covid safety protocols will be followed at outdoor location(s). Students must have familiarity and access to a computer, and, the internet for supporting course materials. Non-credit Course but very informative!

If you have been hiking around Toro Park and enjoying the wildflowers, you may have gotten a glimpse of a rarity: California Fire Poppies. Fire Poppies only blo...om after a fire and they are blooming now in some of the park’s burn scar areas. Since last summer’s fire was the first in over a century in this area, these seeds have been in the ground for 100 years and finally have a chance to bloom, a beautiful sign of recovery. If you get a glimpse, enjoy the sight. Please don’t pick these flowers or go off marked trails, which can be dangerous right now. See more

Giant Groundsels, prehistoric plants found on top of Mt Kilimanjaro.

Let’s imagine the Greening of Urban spaces https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2021/04/watg-green-cities/

Just a friendly reminder

UC Santa Cruz Farm and Garden Spring Plant Sale May 1 & 2 at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn More details below

There are other Puya species that grow well here. Don’t have to wait so long for the flowers either!

Home Depot Seaside had this display out with bare root roses recently. Sadly this Bayer product is a known bee and good bug killer and has no place in a healthy garden. Just thought you should know. Here is some background and list of other products to avoid that affect pollinators. https://environmentamerica.org/go-bee-friendly

Always a pleasure to view this video

Nice little rain last night! The forecast is holding for a few more sprinkles into the new year - fingers crossed.

Seaweed and fish bones to culture this historied landrace coastal potato. Would love to see how it would grow here.

Takes a minute to see... baby hummingbird feeding on a raspberry

This lovely assemblage of succulents was created by Keiko at Goodwill garden. Her botanical artistry adds cheer at the side gate. Thanks!

Saturn and Jupiter appear as one star tonight. Happy Solstice!

Grace is cleaning her worm bin! The worms will dive down to bottom of the pile, and she will scrape off the compost to put around her fruit trees. She feeds her worms food scraps from the kitchen and cardboard. Worms return to the box to continue to feast.

Like to know how design a beautiful residential landscape with defensible space from wild land fire? Check out this NEW class offering at MPC! ONLINE FIRESCAPING CLASS Two Saturdays in Spring 2021 Monterey Peninsula College... Saturday, APRIL 17 - 9:00 am - 11:15 am and 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Zoom) and Saturday, APRIL 24 - 9:00 am - 11:15 am and 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm (Zoom) REGISTER ONLINE: www.mpc.edu HORT 210 - Section 1026 - Current Topics in Ornamental Horticulture (8 hours)

Robert Daniels, Jr. took on a neglected community park in Seaside and gathered local support to make it happen.

Fascinating turkey feather blanket with cordage made from Spanish Dagger.

Gardener Colleen would like to pass on her pittosporum plants. You will need to contact her and come dig them up. Pittosporum plants that have potential to grow much taller. They’ve been in the ground for a few years but gophers have snacked on their roots a bit. I’m not sure how they’ll do being transplanted, but it’s worth a shot. Please plan to wear a mask and bring a shovel. We’ll remove some, you remove some. They shouldn’t be difficult to remove.... Learn more here: https://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp