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And A Gold Star Goes To...
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Lorraine Fedorchak. Lorraine was the first to submit the correct answer to our May trivia question: "What is the name of the insect that ravishes our native ash trees?" The correct answer is: "Emerald Ash Borer."
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Lorraine won a $15.00 Wedel's gift card and you could too! Just be the first to respond with the correct answer to our monthly trivia question.
Congratulations, Lorraine!!
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June
Shopping List
Barbecue grill for Dad
Fertilome Weed Free Zone
Grass seed
Starter fertilizer
Suet
Bird seed
Pruners
Pruning sealer
Plant labels, stakes, twist ties, cages
Lawn and garden fungicide
Rain gauge
Garden seeds
Repellex Mole and Gopher Repellent
Lawn spreader
Suet
Gift card
Hummingbird feeder
Hummingbird nectar
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A Thought
From the Garden
"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
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1. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird is North America's sole breeding hummingbird.
2. The Ruby-throated Hummingbird beats its wings about 53 times a second.
3. The oldest known Ruby-throated Hummingbird was 9 years 1 month old.
4. The short legs of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird prevent it from walking or hopping.
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Mom Tested And ApprovedHere is a new side dish with a south of the border flair.
Spanish String Beans
2 Pounds Green Beans
2 Cups Cooked Tomatoes
1 Green Pepper, Chopped
1/2 Cup Tomato Catsup
1 Clove Garlic
1 Large Onion, Chopped
2 Tablespoons Bacon Fat
Salt
Wash beans. Remove strings. Cut beans in small pieces. Brown onion and garlic in bacon fat. Add beans. Cover closely. Cook slowly until dry. Add tomatoes, catsup, and green pepper. Season to taste. Cover. Cook slowly until tender. 8 servings.
The Searchlight Recipe Book
Carrie J. Brown, San Bernardino, California
Enjoy!
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Look SharpFeel Sharp
Be Sharp
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Did you know that you can have your blades sharpened at Wedels?!
Take a look at these prices!
- Pruners - $5.00
- Loppers - $5.00
- Lawn mower blades - $6.00 (sorry, no reel mowers)
- Mulching mower blades - $6.00
- Hedge shears - $5.00
- Electric and cordless hedge shears - $10.00
- Hoes, shovels and trowels - $3.00
- Larger items - we will quote a price
(We don't sharpen chain saw blades.)
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Store Hours
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Closed Sunday
- Beginning Monday June 16 -
Monday - Saturday
9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Closed Sunday
To Do In June
Apply Weed Free Zone for lawn weed control.
Feed roses, fertilize flower beds.
Stake plants.
Inspect plants for 4-line plant bugs and aphids.
Inspect vine plants for vine borers.
Apply Preen Weed Preventer.
Prune early spring bloomers e.g. forsythia, lilac.
Prune evergreens
Keep food supplied for nesting birds.
Still ample time to grow crops from seeds.
Deadhead spent blossoms of bulb flowers.
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Volume 7, Number 3 June 2014
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Summer's Coming:
Thyme To Start
Your Herb Garden.
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Our friends at Espoma have some excellent advice for us about herbs, fun and good food!
"Summer is coming and that means outdoor fun, grilling and delicious salads. All the more reason to get your herb garden started today! Growing herbs is an easy, money-saving hobby that also happens to be good for your health. Whatever you're cooking up at your cookout can be even tastier with your own fresh, homegrown herbs - so let's get started!
Flavor Things Up with Your Own Herb Garden.
Plant these easy-to-grow herbs in your garden and enjoy some fresh-from-the-earth taste at your dinner table. Some herbs, such as Mint and Thyme, should be purchased as plants and transplanted or propagated by cuttings to ensure proper production.
 A fresh take on Mint.
Not only good for your breath, Mint is good for what ails you - including digestion, headaches, asthma, even pimples and cavities. But be careful! This herb needs its space. Mint grows so fast it will choke out anything else in its path.
 The Thyme is right.
Thyme is virtually calorie-free and provides a delicious boost of flavor to soups, salads, and just about any other recipe you can think of.
 Don't pass on Parsley.
So much more than a garnish, Parsley is full of nutrients and Vitamins A, C, and K. And while Parsley grows slower than most herbs, it's worth the wait. Just make sure the soil doesn't get too dry; once the plant wilts, it rarely recovers.
 Sage is all the rage.
Used as a natural remedy for anxiety and fatigue, Sage is a relatively high-maintenance herb - it needs plenty of sunlight, good soil, and a watering every other day.
 Cilantro - two spices in one.
A staple of Mexican and Asian cuisines, Cilantro supplies fiber and iron and helps clear heavy metals like mercury out of the body. Because of its deep taproot, Cilantro needs deep soil to thrive. If your plant does go to seed, don't throw the seeds away - they're the tasty spice known as Coriander.
 Chive talkin'.
This tasty herb adds oniony flavor to salads, eggs, cream cheese, mashed potatoes, and more. Even better? It can help boost your immune system. Chives grow easily, and don't need much light. They grow to be about 18" tall, but don't require much space to flourish.
 Presto, it's pesto! Go Basil.
Known for its leaves' warm, spicy flavor, Basil is a good source of fiber, and has a detoxifying effect on the liver. (Out late? Try incorporating basil into your brunch!) Basil is a hardy plant that grows easily. It doesn't need much care and requires watering only every other day."Espoma has been "A natural in the garden since 1929." Stop by Wedel's for everything you need to grow delicious and healthy herbs in your own garden. We have the Espoma products you need and the advice and information you want! Here's a handy tip sheet from Espoma to get you started.
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Beginning this month, Wedel's News will include a coupon just for you, our loyal Wedel's News subscriber. The offer will be appropriately geared to the time of year which means you will be able to save money on items you are most likely to want...now.
It's June. It's spring. It's the perfect time to get outside, shake off the winter doldrums and spruce up your landscape and, with that in mind, take a look at this month's offer. We hope you'll take advantage of it and enjoy your landscape even more for years to come!
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Mark Your Calendar
Saturday June 14
10:30 - 11:15
First in Wedel's Summer
Seminar Series
Are hummingbirds and orioles becoming threatened species and how can I help?
with Roger Taylor
Saturday June 14 Flag Day
Sunday June 15
Father's Day
Saturday June 21
First Day of Summer
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Gardening As Art
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If you are an artist, want to be an artist or merely know what you like when you see it, here is a project for you that will put your vision on display for your own enjoyment and for others to see and appreciate. Give some thought to painting with perennials.
It is easy to find examples of artistic interpretation of landscapes rendered in oil, acrylic, pastelle etc. so why not combine the techniques used in those media to produce living art in your own landscape? A vacant area in your landscape can be as daunting as a blank canvas but you can do it. All it takes is some thought about what you like as far as texture and color are concerned added to some knowledge about plant growth habit and environmental requirements.
You don't need to create a masterpiece of color and size! Combining plants with different textures and shades of green can be beautiful. Small leaved species next to larger leaved species will create overall texture. Include some plants with green and white variegated foliage and you have a classic example of subtlety. You don't need complicated combinations or dozens of colors. You can even use annuals to vary the effect from year to year. Simplicity is elegance.
If you have larger areas consider using small trees and shrubs as a backdrop. Such examples as Red Select Cut Leaf Japanese Maple, Variegated Flowering Maple, Bloomerang Lilac, Lo And Behold Purple Haze Dwarf Butterfly Bush, Fragrant Sumac, El Dorado Feather Reed Grass are just the beginning of the list of possibilities. Your choice of backdrop color can set the stage for the featured varieties of small plant color and texture you stage in the front.
The combination of colors (white, red, pink maroon, green, burgundy, variegated etc.) and textures (broad leaf, toothed leaf, feathery, round, oblong etc.) is truly nearly endless. Don't let it be daunting, let it be fun, exciting, inspiring; a method for you to release your artistic talents or, simply, a beautiful and enduring way for you to create. And remember; we're here to help. If you have an idea of color or size or effect but have no idea of how to accomplish it, let us know or browse through our Plant Finder! We know plants; you know, or have an idea about, what you want. You can do it!
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Wild Sarsaparilla
Aralia nudicaulis
Used by Native Americans for various medicinal purposes Wild Sarsaparilla has also been used as a substitute for sassafras as flavoring for home-made root beer.
 Greenish/white flowers are produced in the spring and have both male and female organs polinated by bees. These flowers produce dark purple berries that have a spicy sweet taste. These berries have a variety of uses in the kitchen and can be used for making jams and jellies.
The scientific name, Aralia nudicaulis, means "bare" or "nude stem" describing the long stem topped by several clusters of large, solitary, compound and finely toothed leaves. The leaf stalk grows to approximately 24" while the flower stalks grow to approximately 12" with 2-7 umbrels.
 Wild Sarsaparilla will add unusual focus and texture to your landscape and offer a variety of uses for cooking and baking. Take note: This is a "special order" plant so stop by or call the garden center for more information. Click here for further details about Wild Sarsaparilla.
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Just for Grins...
and  Groans
"Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do."
- Slim Acres
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Saturday Mornings
Birdwatch 8:07 a.m.
with host Roger Taylor answering all of your birding questions
Call in at 382-4280 or 877-382-4280.
Over the Garden Fence 9:07 a.m. with host Andy Wedel answering all of your landscape and gardening questions
Call in at 382-4280 or 877-382-4280.
Visit our web site at www.wedels.com for archives of previous Birdwatch and
Over the Garden Fence programs!
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Note from the Editor
"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."
- Aldo Leopold
What a beautiful day! This isn't our first or our last and I'm betting there will be many more to come. What are you doing to enjoy it? (I'm here, with doors and windows open, chatting with you.) Do you have plans to get outside this weekend? Do you have some gardening chores or projects on your want-to-do list? I hope we're included on that list. I was in our annuals and perennials and nursery areas recently and, to be honest, I could have stayed out there all day just wandering through the plants!
The waterfall was rushing, the stream gurgling and the fish in the pond seemed to be playing although they probably had a greater purpose for all of their activity. Shoppers were loading up their carts with some of the healthiest and most beautiful plants in our entire area. I think some were enjoying the atmosphere as much as I was while others appeared to be on a mission to get what they wanted so they could get home and to work in their landscape. I'm biased (maybe) but Wedel's is one of the best places to be on a beautiful spring day. If you aren't on a limited schedule, plan to spend some time here relaxing. You don't even have to break away for lunch; the cafe' always has something delicious to offer.
There are articles in this edition of Wedel's News about growing herbs and creating a work of art in your landscape. I know some of you are seasoned veterans when it come to gardening and landscaping and some very new to it. Most are probably somewhere in between. I want to emphasize that Wedel's is more than a store. Sure, you can come in, pick products off of the shelves, go to the cash register and home but if, if that's all you do, you aren't taking full advantage of all we have to offer.
People here know our products whether those products are chemicals, fertilizers, hardware, plants, pond supplies or equipment. I've shopped at stores where the employees are on a mission to stock shelves or set up displays or do some routine cleaning and they give the impression that I should get in, get what I want and leave. Those stores aren't Wedel's. We have all of those things to do too but they can wait. We're here because we love what we do and what we do is everything we can to make sure you enjoy and are successful at what you do - take care of your landscape at home.
Without exception, all I talk to say they have to most fun at work when they are busy with our green thumb friends. We realize that the shade of green on those thumbs varies so we're here to help. If you want to get in, get out and get home, that's perfectly alright. If you have no idea what you are doing and need instructions written down, that's perfectly alright too. Ask questions, bring in examples of gardening problems, take your time getting answers. Remember, if you aren't successful, we aren't successful. No one wins. When you have a beautiful lawn, a stunning patio, gorgeous landscape, bountiful garden and your friends and family comment on it we want you to be able to say you got everything you needed at Wedel's!
Have a wonderful weekend. The growing season we waited so long for is here and in full gear!
Ready for another trivia question? Here we go! The flowers of what plant emit a flammable clear gas that can be lit on fire with a match? The first reader to respond with the correct answer will win a $15.00 Wedel's gift card. The gift card must be picked up here at the garden center and remember, you are eligible to win once every 90 days. Good luck and have fun! 'Til next time, Jim
"On this June day the buds in my garden are almost as enchanting as the open flowers.
Things in bud bring, in the heat of a June noontide, the recollection of the loveliest days of the year
- those days of May when all is suggested, nothing yet fulfilled."
- Francis King
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