This Saturday, February 7th!

If you've experienced some plant damage or loss this winter you won't want to miss our free Saturday seminar on Taking Care of Frost Damaged Yards..

Visit us at any Star Nursery location at 10am or 2pm.

Don't forget to bring your photos!

Looking Good!

Ok, so we're looking at six more weeks of winter. One look at these winter greens and I say bring it on! I took a trip over to our demonstration garden bed at Craig Ranch Regional Park and noticed that the winter has been very kind to us. We have lots of greens! This bed was planted this past October with romaine lettuce, pak choi, asian greens, sweet peas, red and green cabbage, spinach, and broccoli raab.
These hearty greens are pretty tolerant of the cold temps that we get toward the end of December and into January.

This bed is a demonstration for our monthly seminars to teach anyone who is willing and interested to learn about growing fresh veggies here in our desert.  Thank you to all of our friendly fellow gardeners who water this bed for us!

Our next seminar will be Sunday February 22nd at 10am. See the full schedule here. It's free to attend and you don't have to be a member of this community garden to participate. This garden has been getting a lot of media attention recently and it's no wonder why. Take one trip and you'll know that the folks who rent these beds are not only devoted to tending to their plants, but they're creating an inviting space with personal touches that welcome all who enter the garden.

If you'd like more information about obtaining your very own space in this neighborly and inspiring garden, call 702-633-2418 or click here.

Hope to see you out there!

This Saturday, January 31st!

Come join us at Vegas Roots Community Garden this Saturday, January 31st at 10am and get
 a free, hands-on lesson in pruning fruit trees.

If you haven't been out to Vegas Roots yet, this is a perfect opportunity to see the gardens and their miniature orchard of fruit trees.

Vegas Roots is located at 715 N. Tonopah Dr. LV NV 89106

Our resident horticulturalist and very own gardening celebrity, Dr. Q., will be showing everyone the techniques to trim your fruit trees.
Bring your questions and your pruners!

Hang In There!

 Nagami Kumquat

By this time in the winter season we're all a little over the cold and over the bare branches. Over it, and daydreaming of the spring flowers and budding trees that are just around the corner. Spring always seems like it can't come soon enough when we're getting the planting itch that we are scared to scratch because it's still January. While there are still plenty of winter flowers and dormant trees we can plant in the winter, not to mention all the pruning and prep still left on our to-do lists, we can't help but yearn for warmer weather. Even a warm January is still January and the very mention of the month gives us the shivers.

Thankfully we're still deep in citrus season. 

Tangerine trees at the Las Vegas Library

Winter is when the majority of citrus is in perfect season. It's as if citrus somehow knows that we're on the verge of end-of-season madness so it proudly hangs it's beautiful, brightly colored, tangy fruits from it's branches. Reminding us that there are still some good things left in the middle of winter. Citrus is cheering us on "hang in there!" Literally. It's as if citrus knows that we need those bright oranges and yellows and greens to hold us over until the explosion of color that comes with spring.

So I'd like to say thank you, citrus, for being the beautiful bridge between Winter and Spring.

Here are some great winter citrus varieties:

Rio Red Grapefruit

Moro Blood Orange

Washington Navel Orange

Dancy Mandarin

Nagami Kumquat

Variegated Pink Lemon

And if you want citrus all year, look for some ever bearing varieties:

Eureka Lemon

Meyers Lemon

Mexican Lime

Take a trip over to your neighborhood Star Nursery to learn more!

P.S. What's your favorite citrus fruit?

This Saturday January 24th!

Don't miss our Rose & Fruit Tree Care & Pruning Seminar!

At all Star Nursery Locations 10am & 2pm

Bring your questions!

Victory for Variety

The Variety School's principal, Jason Fico, is passionate about using the garden space to help teach his special needs students. So when he received a grant to do a garden overhaul he reached out to Star to lend some help in the planning and getting things moving.

We helped plant 8 fruit trees surrounding their already 8 raised garden beds. Spread compost throughout the beds and laid some dripper line irrigation so that they didn't have to rely on hand watering their growing veggies everyday.

Now we've gotten their small, but beautiful greenhouse up and running complete with seed trays and a pump irrigation system. They can now start their own seedlings to transplant into the garden every season.

We've already witnessed first hand how the garden can really help special needs students. When a child is having behavioral issues in class, they can be taken outside to the garden. What started out as a behavioral outburst with a student quickly subsided into calm curiosity when that same student was asked to lend a hand with watering a fruit tree.

Variety plans on opening a farmers market to sell the excess produce that they are growing to fund future school projects and programs.

What's your school planning on growing this spring?

Kids Garden Club - Second Saturdays

Thanks for coming out to the Kids Garden Club this past Saturday!

We all had a great time making our water bottle greenhouses! 

Go forth and grow!

To see the complete project guide click here.

Hope to see you next time on Saturday Feb 14th

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