June 22nd
September 7th
October 12th
The Markham Nursery
is open to the public
for plant sales
every Tuesday from
9 am till Noon.
Remember!
Markham members get 20% off the price of plants at our sales.
Join today!
We can be reached at
(925) 681-2968.
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Markham Nursery
1202 La Vista Avenue
Concord, California.
925-681-2968
Nursery Hours:
Tuesdays 9 am till Noon.
Selected Saturdays
throughout the year,
as listed above.
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Erik the Red...start big...end small
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Our June 22nd plant sale has something for everyone.
Our June 22, 2013 Plant Sale has big bargains, small bargains and
the start of a summer adventure for your own small ones.
Check out our "Erik the Red" Aloes and "Macho Mocha" Mangaves for two beautiful, drought tolerant and tough plants that can provide big dramatic statements in your garden.
Or, go small, and check out our sale on 4" strawberries and rosemary. If you bring a child with you (even an inner one) we also have "hens and chicks" for 50 cents. These little guys are a terrific way to get a child started on a tiny container 'garden' this summer.
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You could start a very fine garden with me! Really!
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Here is one reason why the Markham has lovely salvias.
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Dianne Johnsen and friend
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"The salvias are looking good" ... for a reason. When I asked Dianne Johnsen what folks should look for at our upcoming sale, salvias were her top pick, of course. Dianne has been gardening since she was knee high to a grasshopper (do they have grasshoppers in New Zealand?), but developed a special passion for salvias after coming to the Markham 7 or 8 years ago. She was assigned to look after the salvias, and has been fascinated ever since with their beauty and the variety of 900 plus species.
Dianne spent her 20's traveling the world; taking opportunity to see wonderful gardens throughout. Coming to the U.S. in the 60's, she and her husband spent some time in Southern California, but did little beyond maintenance in her yard there; the plants there 'just grew too fast". She must have been better suited to our 'planting zone', since she dug up their solid clay back yard, by hand, to install a lawn. She's acknowledged that's not a project she'd want to tackle again! We're thankful to have her expertise and help devoted to a wide variety of volunteer tasks - and I'm sure the salvias thank her too.
Most of us are still just counting flowers on our tomatoes...
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Hey! Aren't these a bit early?
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MRAS volunteer and expert tomato wrangler Steve Morse has this report from his back yard...
"Much to my surprise I have some ripe tomatoes... the seeds were planted in early February (Markham) and some seedlings bought late February (mostly from Markham and Lowes), moved up to 4"pots about 3-4 weeks later, seedlings transplanted to 1 gall in early April, kept in the greenhouse floor, and then planted as deep in the ground as I could May 2.
Most of the plants are now 3-4 feet tall and the indeterminate varieties still growing big time...some with quite a few tomatoes on the earlier and mid-season varieties... but the success for the summer is a long ways to go. I got an earlier start [this year]... usually it's early July for the first. The early arrivals are Stupice... which known to be quite early, somewhat on the small side, and good tasting."
Although all his other tomatoes are green at this point, Steve has about a dozen varieties and 25 plants, some early, some mid, and some some late... so while he says "fingers crossed for a tomato summer" it seems like a pretty sure bet in his case!
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