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Learn how to keep succulents healthy and happy at an upcoming workshop.
Santa Rosa
Healthcare for succulents: Now that you have planted succulents in your garden, Sonoma County Master Gardener Anne Lowings will discuss how to keep them healthy and looking good all year round from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at Northwest Santa Rosa Library, 150 Coddingtown Center.
Learn how to propagate them, so you can share them with your friends. And feel free to bring along ailing succulent plants for a consultation.
Registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/5bax5acf or http://sonomamg.ucanr.edu/
Sonoma
Installing and operating a drip watering system: Does your current irrigation system exceed 90% efficiency getting water to the root zones of your plants?
This presentation will provide options and key considerations for drip irrigation to put the right amount of water in the right place when plants need it without excess runoff, over-spray, or waste. Learn how a garden water meter can be a useful tool to help understand your plants’ water requirements. This informal presentation will have plenty of time for questions and answers.
Presented by Sonoma County Master Gardener Dennis Przybycien, the event is from 10:30 a.m. to noon Nov. 15 at Sonoma Valley Regional Library, 755 West Napa St.
Registration is required: Go to https://tinyurl.com/uc8rjdvw or http://sonomamg.ucanr.edu/ Upcoming Events to complete registration. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about attending the library talk.
Santa Rosa
Fuels to flows campaign: The Occidental Arts & Ecology Center hosts a lecture on utilizing low-tech process-based restoration techniques, such as “gully stuffing”, to restore hydrologic and ecologic processes to riverine systems at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the Luther Burbank Art and Garden Center, 2050 Yulupa Ave.
This presentation will introduce the OAEC’s Fuels to Flows Campaign, which advances climate-smart nature-based restoration solutions at the nexus of fire and water. This approach advocates for the reintegration of fire and “fuel” load management with the “flows” of the carbon, water, and life cycles. Created in the west as a collaborative approach to the critical need to restore water to the landscape and improve forest resilience to fire, Brock Dolman will share ample project case studies to demonstrate how the Fuels to Flows principles can become a framework for creative low-tech, cost-effective, hands-on solutions to a wide variety of restoration projects around northern California, regardless of the need for fire management.
To learn more, visit https://chapters.cnps.org
The presentation will also be available via Zoom at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89281080434
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The Luther Burbank Home & Garden’s will hold its Holiday Open House Dec. 6-7. (Alvin Jornada / The Press Democrat.)
Santa Rosa
Holiday Open House: Luther Burbank Home & Gardens holds its 45th annual Holiday Open House from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 6-7, corner of Santa and Sonoma avenues.
Tour the home decked out in holiday finery. Shop for unique gifts, plants, and holiday decor in the gift shop. Enjoy games and activities for children. Enjoy home-made cookies in the greenhouse or buy persimmon bread in the gift shop. Admission is $5 for ages 12 and older. Call 707-524-5445 or visit burbankhome@lutherburbank.org for details.
Sonoma County
Curious about becoming a UC Master Gardener?: Have a love for gardening and a heart for community service? Applications are now open for the UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County’s Class of 2026.
UC Master Gardeners volunteer their time and expertise to help local residents with all aspects of home gardening and landscaping. As trained educators with the University of California Cooperative Extension, they share science-based horticultural knowledge—from composting and irrigation to fire-wise landscaping and plant health.
Join us at an information session where Master Gardeners will share first-hand what they do and answer your questions about the Master Gardener Program. Four sessions in August to choose from. For more information and to register go to https://tinyurl.com/ymvx4pb2.
Santa Rosa
Public tours continuing through October at Luther Burbank’s Santa Rosa Home & Gardens: Visit botanist Luther Burbank’s gardens in Santa Rosa. Drop-in, guided tours are offered 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1 to 3 p.m. on Sundays through October. Admission: $12 for adults; $10 for children ages 12-18, seniors and college students; free for children under 12 with an adult are free. Tours include the home with its original furnishings, the greenhouse, a portion of the gardens, and a summary of Burbank’s life and achievements here in Santa Rosa. Group Tours and Children’s Tours are available with advance reservations. Call 707-524-5445 or email burbankhome@lutherburbank.org to confirm availability. Please note: Pets are not allowed in the gardens. Service animals only.
(Send Home & Garden related events to Yovanna.Bieberich@pressdemocrat.com)
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