Store Hours
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| 8:30am to 5:30pm at all Sloat Garden Center locations except as noted below:
- Danville:
Mon-Sat: 8am-5:30pm,
9am to 5pm on Sundays
- Pierce Street:
9am-5:30pm
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November in the Garden
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Not sure what to do in your garden this month? From pruning, to planting to
weeding, check out our list! |
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Present your Gardener's Reward card each time you visit, and you'll enjoy:
New Quick Rewards!
Receive a $5.00 Coupon for every 200 points you earn. Each dollar spent earns one(1) point. Coupons redeemable towards your next purchase.
Promotions
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Seminars
Free admission to our popular gardening seminars ($5 value each).
Gardener's Notebook
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Kitchen Gardener
e-newsletter
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In last month's Kitchen Gardener e-newsletter, we talked about growing and eating radishes. Read the Kitchen Gardener here.
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Dear Garden Guru, When is the best time to plant tulip bulbs in Noe Valley?
-- Pat in SF
Dear Pat,
The best selection of tulip bulbs are available now. We recommend chilling tulip bulbs for 6 weeks prior to planting. It is best to have all bulbs in the ground by Thanksgiving Day.
Bulbs are available at all Sloat Garden Center locations except our Danville, San Rafael and Pierce St (SF) stores. Learn more about planting bulbs here.
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If you're thinking about ways to improve your garden space, call the Sloat Garden Center Design Department. We can develop simple, success oriented low maintenance planting plans for gardens, decks, and terraces, as well as provide indoor plant consultations. But most importantly, we can help you brainstorm ideas and solutions.
Problem solving is a large part of what we do. We will come up with a garden design that works with existing plant material and takes into account your available time to garden. Then we put together a planting plan that works for you. We develop a loose "bubble diagram" and a complete plant list with the quantities and sizes of plant material, soil requirements, and pruning, feeding and care information.
Our planting plans can be easily followed by every level of gardener; whether you prefer to do it yourself or have a professional install your plants.
To schedule an appointment, call us at 415-388-3754 or email us: design@sloatgardens.com.
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This is a time to be thankful for the abundance in our lives.
Our family owned business is incredibly thankful for our loyal customers. Since 1958, we've had the pleasure of showing Bay Area gardeners new ways to garden. Thank you for choosing to garden with us!
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Fall Gardener's Notebook
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November Plant Pick
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Fall Foliage
 While most people are aware of the legendary fall color on the east coast, we here out west are not entirely deprived of autumn beauty. If you have a penchant to add some of that red, scarlet, yellow and orange to your landscape, there are a number of candidates. The following plants will "color up" even in our mild climate.
Trees: Japanese maple, Persimmon, Chinese Pistache, Crape Myrtle, Ginkgo, and flowering crabapple
Shrubs: snowball Viburnum, Pomegranate, Blueberry, Berberis, smoke tree, oakleaf Hydrangea, and Nandina
Some gardeners may prefer colorful berries that offer a winter food source for birds. These plants are usually evergreen: Pyracantha, Cotoneaster, Toyon, and strawberry tree (Arbutus).
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Garden Guru: November
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Dear Garden Guru,
My potato plants are growing tiny white and yellow blossoms and black pea sized fruit. How did this happen? Was this a throw-back from bio-engineered potato plants? Thank you.
Conrad in Greenbrae
ANSWER: Learn how we help solve this gardening challenge by visiting the Garden Guru.
Do you have questions for our garden guru? Ask away on our Facebook page. You can also ask questions by emailing the garden guru here.
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November & December
Gardening Seminars
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Make and Take Terrarium Workshop
Jen Strobel, our wonderful container designer, will
guide you in creating your own terrarium. Your creation will make a wonderful gift for someone you care about (or even yourself). All materials, including the glass vessel will be supplied. Choose f rom succulents or foliage as your taste dictates. FEE: $25.00. Sign up early. Space is limited to 15 attendees.
November 7 - Danville, Wed, noon
November 9 - Sloat Blvd., Fri, noon
November 10 - Mill Valley (Miller Ave.), Sat, 10am
November 10 - Kentfield, Sat, 1pm
November 16 - Sloat Blvd., Fri, noon
December 5 - Danville, Wed, noon
December 7 - Sloat Blvd., Fri, noon
December 8 - Mill Valley (Miller Ave.), Sat, 10am
December 8 - Kentfield, Sat, 1pm
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Pottery colors of the month
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Our pottery colors of the month are Tant Iron (left) and Platinum (right). We like the cool, luminescent sheen that these colors bring to winter bloomers like violas, mums, cyclamen and snapdragon. A nice holiday pottery selection!
Visit any Sloat Garden Center location to see our large array of pottery. View more Sloat Garden Center pottery here:
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