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The Cool Season is Approaching
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Greetings!
54 degrees F. is a temperature that just doesn't occur in the World's tropical regions. Many of our warm season plants (basil, banana, corn, chiles, Dahlia, Gardenia, pineapple, plumeria, etc.) are tropical in origin and require warm temperatures to function properly. When night temperatures drop below 55 degrees F. most of these plants stop growing. Drop a few more degrees and some very tender plants (like basil) decline rapidly and may even die.
Sometime this month it will become too cool to grow basil unprotected outside. We will continue to offer it, but basil should then be grown inside, or brought inside at night. I grow basil inside my kitchen window from November to April.
On the flip side, cool season plants (broccoli, cauliflower, cilantro, lettuce, pansy, peas, poppy, etc.) will do well from now for at least the next 6 months.
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Acacia iteaphylla Willow Wattle 5-gallon $35, 1-gallon $12 This is a striking small evergreen tree or large shrub that quickly grows to about 10 feet tall and wide. The branches are slightly weeping and the narrow, willow-like leaves are gray green. New growth is reddish pink. Clusters of pale yellow puff flowers occur in winter to spring. Native to Australia.
Situate in sun. Adaptable to many different soils and moisture levels. Established plants are tolerant of short periods of drought.
Excellent on slopes and banks. Good as screen or windbreak.
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Market Notes:
Fruiting Plants available: apple-Anna avocados-Bacon, Carmen Hass, Gem, Reed, Stewart banana-Dwarf Brazilian citrus-good assortment plus a few navel oranges dragon fruit-assortment figs-Gary's Strawberry, Italian Everbearing, Panache guava-Tropic White peach-Red Baron persimmon-Fuyu Rose Apple Surinam Cherry
Ornamental Trees available: Euphorbia cotinifolia Caribbean Copper Tree Homalanthus populifolia Bleeding Heart Tree Radermachera sinica China Doll Tree Senna bicapsularis Christmas Cassia Spathodea campanulata African Tuip Tree Tipuana tipu Tipu Tree Bedding Plants Currently Available
Cauliflower Graffiti 6-pack
Sequoia Strawberry 6-pack Temptation Strawberry 6-pack
assorted herbs quart Dahlia Mystic Haze quart Euphorbia Ascot Rainbow quart Lavender Goodwin Creek quart Lavender Green French quart Salvia Hot Lips quart Blue Ginger quart AND MORE... |
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Please visit us at our farmer's market locations
EVERY SATURDAY 9am-2pm
SoCo Farmer's Market South Coast Collections Retail Center
3314 Hyland Avenue, Costa Mesa
Exit 405 north on Harbor, left on South Coast, right on Hyland
EVERY SUNDAY 10am-2pm
The Great Park Farmer's Market The Great Park, Irvine
Exit 5 at Sand Canyon, go south on Marine Way (parallels east side of the 5), follow the signs
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26285 Verona Place
Mission Viejo, California 92692
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