The High Desert Gardener (Moana Nursery's August Newsletter)

The High Desert Gardener

Volume 08.13 August 1, 2013

Better Plants. Better People.

Contact Information: Email us at: customerservice@ moananursery.com

Moana Lane Garden Center The Florist, Greenhouse &

Gift Shop 1100 W. Moana Lane, Reno

775-825-0600

S. Virginia St. Garden Center Outdoor Living, Tree Land & Moana

Rock 11301 S. Virginia St., Reno

775-853-1319

Pyramid Hwy. Garden Center Spanish Springs Nursery

7655 Pyramid Hwy., Sparks 775-425-4300

Store Hours

Mon.-Fri. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Get Ready for Fall - the Best Time to Plant! See why

here.

Keep plants blooming late into fall by "deadheading" (plucking

off the spent flowers); this keeps the plants from thinking

it is time to spend all their energy developing seeds for next season.

"Get Ready For Fall" Specials ... see what's on-sale here!)

Timely, Local Tips Now is the Time To . . .

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Feed roses for third and final time early in August with Dr. Earth Rose and Flower Fertilizer. Do not fertilize after August 15th.

● Monitor roses closely for mildew. If detected, spray with Bonide Rose Rx immediately. Dispose of infected leaves in the trash; do not compost.

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Saturday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The Florist at Moana

Mon-Sat 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Landscape & Design Center Water-Wise Irrigation, Hardscapes,

Maintenance & Water Features 1190 W. Moana Lane, Reno

775-825-0602 X 134

NV Lic. #3379 A, D, E CA Lic. #317448

Feature Products:

For planting success, we recommend using these three

products when planting or transplanting all plants:

Superthrive, Gardner & Bloome Soil Building

Compost and Dr. Earth Life or Starter Fertilizer

● Inspect irrigation system regularly for leaks, clogged emitters, broken/clogged heads and other problems. Remember to adjust emitters out from the trunk or base of your plants as they grow. Call 825-0602, ext 134 to schedule an irrigation system tune-up with our irrigation technician.

● Continue fertilizing vegetables through the growing season - every 2 to 4 weeks with Dr. Earth Liquid Solutions or every 2 months with Dr. Earth Tomato, Vegetable & Herb Fertilizer.

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With summer heat here to stay for a while, proper watering is crucial. Click here for How to Water Wisely for Healthy Plants.

See all our Timely, Local, High Desert, Bi-Weekly Tips - - Click here and check often - - now is the time.

Jewelry for Your Garden. . . artisan garden stakes, wind chimes and wall décor. Each piece is handcrafted with colorful stained glass and shimmering beads. Select from a variety of garden motifs including butterflies, dragonflies, frogs, owls, suns, hummingbirds and more.

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Trish's Gardening Tips:

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Fountains are a great way to help cool off your courtyard or patio.

● Now is the perfect time to start your fall garden with a Gronomics Planter made in the USA. Looks great and is easy to assemble - no tools required. See Gail's Gardening Tips below on fall veggies.

From the Florist at Moana Send a fabulous floral arrangement and brighten someone's day! Same day local deliveries available ... call 775-825-0671

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Plantskydd keeps rabbits away

from lawns and other areas of your garden by a combination of

both taste and smell.

Bonide Annual Tree & Shrub Insect Control

Dr. Earth Fruit Tree Planting

Mix

New Arrivals ...

'Panchito' Manzanita

For your yard:

● 'Panchito' manzanita

● 'Crimson King' maple

● Maiden grass ● 'Tinkerbelle' lilac ● 'Dura-Heat' river

birch ● Asters, Japanese

anemones & coral bells

● 2014 Seeds from Botanical Interests ● Succulents from 2 inches to 2 gallons

found in our greenhouse are easy care houseplants

'Tinkerbelle' Lilac'Crimson King' Maple

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Dr. Earth Rose and Flower Fertilizer

Bonide KleenUP Grass & Weed

Killer

Gail's Plant of the Month: Edible Kale This super food has many health benefits -- protein, calcium, iron plus vitamin A, K and C in some of the highest amounts you can get from a leafy vegetable. It is also known for its anti-cancer properties (phytonutrients) and is an excellent source of fiber.

Kale can be easily grown in your landscape and is quite attractive; some varieties reach up to four feet high with beautifully textured leaves that change color as the season gets colder. Kale can be harvested during most stages of its growth and will grow back many times after being cut back without turning sour. Lacinato - sometimes called dinosaur kale, has puckered leaves on upwards stalks of 2 to 3-foot-tall plants; contains phytonutrients; traditionally used for soups. Redbor - very pretty with a frilly leaf and red stems and leaf veins that become a darker purple red in cold weather; grows up from 36 to 48 inches. Red Russian - one of the most common varieties with flat leaves and purple stems; large-leafed plants with very tender leaves used raw in salad or cooked. White Russian - similar to the red variety; very productive and can survive zero degrees without protection. Winterbor - produces the highest yield on 2 to 3 foot tall plants; extremely tolerant of cold weather.

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Bonide Rose Rx Systemic Drench

ACECAP Systemic Insecticide Implants

: Protect trees with quick action - 2 to 4 days after application,

kills aphids, birch borers, emerald ash borers, gypsy

moths, scale, pine tip moths, thrips, web worms, whitefly and

18 other destructive insects.

You can begin harvesting baby kale about one month after planting for salads or cooking. When harvesting from a mature plant the center leaves are the most tender to use in salads. Its flavor actually improves and gets sweeter with cooler temperatures. Kale is not only considered a super food, it also looks super in your landscape planted with perennials, vegetables and herbs. You re missing something very good and good for you if you only use kale to decorate your fall containers and buffet platters for a holiday meal!

Gail's Gardening Tips:

Planting for Fall ColorJapanese anemones, asters and coral bells in autumn colors will blend with all the ornamental grasses for a great look in your fall gardens. Fall bulbs will be in the stores the last week of August so

start planning and prepping your soil with our soil building compost SBC. Fall Vegetables NOW is time to plant cool season crops by using a shady area with a container or a garden bed to begin planting seeds and starts for fall harvest. There is plenty of time to add to or start a garden, plant up herbs, berries, grapes, and vegetables that you can harvest well into October. Learning to extend the season in our High Desert with row covers to protect from frost and shade cloth to protect from heat will increase your harvest dramatically and save money on your food budget. We have a line of gourmet kale, lettuce, broccoli and other crops that will grow well in northern Nevada through November with row covers. Growing your own food is not only a popular, healthy and economical choice, but it allows you to know where your food is coming from and control what pesticides that are used on it. Better for you and your family to grow, eat and enjoy.

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Bonide All Seasons' Spray Oil

Bonide Liquid Copper Fungicide

Bonide's Line of Durable Grass Seed Products

Matt's August Tree of the Month: 'Coralburst' Flowering Crabapple

This tough, dependable little tree seldom requires pruning to keep its compact, rounded shape. Suitable for small spaces and large pots. The brilliant show of coral pink flowers explodes from ruby-red buds in spring.

August "Get Ready for Fall" Specials ...

August 1st thru August 15th

40% Off All Moana-grown Shrubs, Vines & Roses ...

All Types #2 & larger (reg. $15.99 to $134)

RED HOT DEAL

Assorted Colorful Rudbeckia $4.99

1 gal. (reg. $9.99).

Limit 3 per cutomer

This rabbit and deer resistant perennial blooms well into the fall

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Green It Corn Gluten Weed Preventer

Dr. Earth Lawn Fertilizer

season in beautiful autumn colors. It is also drought tolerant once established in your landscape and will reseed for more flowers.

#1 Selling Moana Product

Organic Products

Best Prices in Town:3 cu.ft. Gardner & Bloome SBC -

$9.99 (reg. $12.99)1 Quart Bonide KleenUP -

$4.99 (reg. $6.99)4 lb. Dr. Earth Starter Fertilizer -

$7.99 (reg. $9.99)5 m Bonide Insect & Feed -

$19.99 (reg. $24.99)

August 1st Home Improvement Specials:$15 shrubs and $59 trees ...

'Red Sunset' Maple

#3 'Green Mountain' Boxwood

(reg $32.99)#3 'Royal Purple' Smokebush

(reg. $29.99)#5 'Goldflame' Spiraea (reg.

$29.00)#15 'Redspire' Flowering Pear

(reg. $109.99)#15 'Red Sunset' Maple (reg.

$114.00)

See all the two week

"specials" here.

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Bonide Eight Insect Control

Captain Jack's Deadbug Brew

Save on High-Protein Wild Birds Unlimited Bird Foods ... now thru 8/15 10% discount on the following bird food (5 lb & 20 lb.)

● Finch Blend ● Nyjer ● Sunflower Chips ● Peanuts (shelled and in the shell) ● Bark Butter ● Bark Butter Bits (Cannot be combined with other

offers)

August High Desert Bird-of-the-Month: House Finch The House Finch is one of my "comfort" birds. No matter if it is winter or summer, if there is snow flying or sun beating down, I can almost always count on seeing a House Finch or two or maybe a dozen. Although they are not a flashy bird (the female is plain, plain, plain), they have other endearing qualities. Their lilting, many note song is delightful to hear over and over. They are highly social birds, so it's not unusual to see several traveling and feeding together. House Finch was originally a western bird. Sometime around 1940 a few caged birds were released on Long Island in New York. The population quickly grew and spread; by the 1990's, House Finch could be found all across the eastern United States and into southern Canada. In the East, House Finch can be found in almost any kind of habitat connected with human development. In their native West, they also frequent more natural habitats including dry deserts, grasslands, and riparian areas. The population of House Finch is very large, estimated at between 300 million and a billion individuals. Despite such large numbers, they are not considered a pest species, unlike others

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Sunshine Peat Moss

Bonide Lawn Starter - Recommended for all lawn

planting & patching

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such as House Sparrow or European Starling. Lots more on House Finch, the rest of our expert's informative articles & local birds at www.reno.wbu.com. Sign up there for our monthly Wild Birds Unlimited Newsletter and more. See full bird-of-the-month.

August 3: Iris Sale sponsored by the High Desert Iris Society - inside Moana Nursery at 1100 W. Moana Lane - 9 am to 5 pmA great selection of unique & award-winning iris will be available for purchase. Society members will be on hand to answer all your questions about how to grow iris in our climate and which types grow best. They will recommend fertilizers, tools, shovels and spades as well as explain when it's best to dig and separate iris for the very best blooms for years to come. All proceeds benefit the High Desert Iris Society. Special May Meetings - Held at Moana Nursery Landscape & Design Center August 1: 7:00 PM -- Orchid Society of Northern Nevada monthly meeting. Guest speaker is Carol Siegel of the Greater Las Vegas

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Orchid Society; her topic is Liars and Cheats: The Story of Orchid Deceoption. Guests are welcome. For more information visit www.osnnv.com

Our latest ad talks to the incredible benefits of trees and plants in general. We have created a home for all the research and factual data that links our multitasking plants to important human benefits. We call it Plants Save Lives and you can access it here at www.plantssavelives.com. We hope you will add to this fantastic collection of positives that can meaningfully change our lives. If you come across a research based article pointing out how plants help, please provide us a link to the data by emailing us here. And, enjoy the many & varied links we have already included. Self-serving? Yes ... we admit to a strong bias!

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Residential Design & Landscape Services Call 825-0602 x134 to schedule a free landscape estimate with one of our talented designers and explore your possibilities and timing.

● New landscape design & installation

● Makeover of existing landscapes

● Water-wise irrigation design, installation & repairs

● Artistic driveways, patios & water features

● FieldTurf artificial putting greens, lawns, dog runs & play areas

● Indoor Plant Design &

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Maintenance Services including containers inside and out

Plan & Plant Now is the perfect time to use our Plan & Plant resource to easily design and get expert assistance for those dreams and changes you have for your yard. Take a look and see if it inspires you ... we all can be "landscape designers" with these simple tools. Or ... explore our expert advice and high desert fact sheets on subjects that may be of interest to you. Our website is filled with local gardening & landscaping advice to make you a green industry, high desert expert.

Did You Know? Tuesday is a special day at all three Moana Nursery/Wild Birds Unlimited retail locations. We call it Senior and Military Tuesday ... show your appropriate ID and if you are 65 or older, or if you are a current member of any branch of our armed services, we are pleased to take an additional 10% off your total purchase.Tuesday is the day we honor our seniors and our military volunteers; we appreciate your service to our country.

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