The High Desert Gardener (Moana Nursery)

The High Desert Gardener

Volume 3.12 March 1, 2012

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

Moana Lane & South Virginia Store Hours

Mon-Sat 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Pyramid Store Hours Wed-Sat 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Florist at Moana Mon-Sat 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Landscape & Design Center Water-Wise Irrigation, Hardscapes & 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.

Early Spring Anniversary Sale 45% off ALL Outdoor Plants

and more in March! Visit or Click Here for Specifics ... It's Time for

Home Improvement! Timely TipsNow is the Time to . . .

● Apply pre-emergent weed control to prevent germination of weeds and unwanted plants in your landscape. Moana recommends: Green Light Amaze and Monterey Weed Impede for flower beds & non-planted areas, hillsides, paths, etc.) and Green Light Portrait for lawns. Aerate your lawn, and if necessary, dethatch.

● Feed lawn with Dr. Earth Lawn Fertilizer.● Prevent crabgrass and feed lawn with Scotts Turf Builder with Halts.● Purchase and plant dormant Star roses now. Dormant roses offer a greater

selection than roses available in May and since there are no leaves, the cane structure is clearly visible. Planting them now will promote strong roots and beautiful blooms earlier than if you waited until may to buy roses already in leaf and bloom. to promote strong roots and beautiful blooms.

● Plant fruit trees - pear, apple, peach, cherry, apricot, nectarine & plum -- on a dry day before buds swell with Dr. Earth Fruit Tree Planting Mix and Dr. Earth Fruit Tree Fertilizer; mulch with Gardner & Bloome Soil Building Compost. Spray with Liquid Fence FreezePruf when buds begin to swell to prevent frost damage by protecting buds from 2 - 9 degrees F below freezing

● Plant trees and shrubs while they are still dormant -- before they break bud. ● Feed existing fruit trees with Dr. Earth Fruit Tree Fertilizer.

See all our Timely, Local, High Desert, Bi-Weekly Tips here.

March Featured Plants:

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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 All Seasons Spray Oil and Bonide Systemic

Houseplant Insect Control

'Show Off' Forsythia'Texas Scarlet' Flowering Quince

March Featured Plants (more):

'Mountain Fire' Pieris 'Royal Star' Magnolia

From Tree to Table ... Grow Your Own Fruit

Let us help you get started! We are fully stocked with hundreds of healthy and hardy fruit trees. Experience the

true pleasure of biting into the freshest fruit possible...from your own backyard. Shop all three Moana locations.

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Dr. Earth Final Stop Yard & Garden Insect Killer

Weed Impede

Amaze Weed Control

Monterrey Liqui-Cop

Click here for complete list ... Full Description

Pottery, Pottery & More Pottery!

Several shipments have just

been received - wide range of sizes, many styles & new

colors -- many are frost free! You're bound to find several to

tickle your fancy and meet your needs!

Just Arrived ... Bully Tools

Moana Nursery is very excited to be offering these heavy duty commercial grade yard tools that are 100% American made.

New Arrivals:Star Fiber Pot (bare root) Roses - 35 varieties, including 8 new introductions for 2012!

Orchid Romance4.5' tall x 3' wideStrong citrus fragranceDisease resistant

Sunshine Daydream Rose, AARS Award Winner5.5' tall x 4' wideDark green and very glossy foliageExcellent disease resistance All Star roses have survived extensive trials throughout the U.S.A., growing in a

variety of climates with no spraying for pests or diseases (this does not mean

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that they won't benefit from preventative treatment, just that they have demonstrated superior pest and disease resistance). Of special note is the variety 'Sunshine Daydream', a yellow grandiflora, which is the first traditional garden rose to win the All-American Rose Selection under "no-spray" conditions. All Fiber Pot roses are #1 grade with a minimum of three substantial canes measuring at least 3/8" in caliper.

Spring Color and Greenhouse Plants For those of you with spring fever you'll want a few poppies, ranunculus, primrose, candytuft, primrose and pansies to add to an indoor or outdoor container. And we have a great variety of new greenhouse plants, including orchids, violets and flowering azaleas and gardenias to provide instant color indoors.

Bird of the Month: Western Bluebird Western Bluebirds are small, stocky thrushes with thin, straight bills and fairly short tails. Males are shiny blue above with rust-orange extending from a vest on the breast onto the upper back. Females are gray-buff with a pale orange wash on the breast and blue tints to the wings and tail. The throat is blue in males and gray-buff in females, and the lower belly is whitish. Western bluebirds are highly social and usually feed in flocks during the non-breeding season. They hunt for terrestrial insects (grasshoppers, caterpillars, beetles, ants and others) by dropping to the ground from a low perch. They also frequently feed on berries (mistletoe, juniper and elderberry) in trees. They rely on trees both for nesting cavities and hunting perches; they also perch on fences and utility lines. Western Bluebirds live in open woodland, both coniferous and deciduous, and also are found in backyards, burned areas, and farmland, from sea level far up into the mountains. Fun Facts:

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● Bluebirds have no blue pigments in their feathers. Instead, each feather barb has a thin layer of cells that absorb all wavelengths of color except blue. Only the blue wavelength is reflected and scattered, resulting in their blue appearance to our eyes.

● Bluebirds can spot caterpillars and insects in tall grass at the remarkable distance of over 50 yards.

● Males may carry next material to the nest, but they do not participate in the actual building. They spend much of that time guarding their mates to prevent them from mating with other males.

Click her for more local bird information at reno.wbu.com

From the Florist at Moana:

Treat someone (maybe even yourself) with a colorful spring

arrangement. Featured this month are a collector's teapot with roses for $47.95 or a reusable ceramic pitcher with tulips and daffodils for $39.95. Call the Florist at Moana 825-0671 today, to place your order.

Local delivery only.

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Bird Seed of the Month:No Mess Blend

20 lbs. $30.99 (reg. $34.99) for the entire month of March ... Attract a wide array of birds without the mess - ground feeders as well as hopper and tube feeders: chickadees, finches, pine siskins, juncos, spotted towhee, California quail, mourning doves & sparrows and more. Pure seed with no waste - sunflower chips, hulled white millet and small peanut pieces. Special Offers:

● Buy any WBU Dinner Bell, Get FREE Mealworms. Offer expires March 15th.

● Buy 3 Peanut Butter'n Jelly Suet Plugs, Get 1 FREE. While supplies last.

● In -Store Special - Moana Lane Only: Buy a Suet Plug Feeder, Get 3 Peanut Butter'n Jelly Suet Plugs FREE. While supplies last.

Gifts for Home and Garden

● Fun, light handbags and drop in containers in great spring colors.

● Rustic ceramics in cool colors and hanging glass bud vases.

● Garden benches, stakes and art ● Colorful spring wall art ● Easter décor - lambs and bunnies galore ● Fanciful herb markers

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Residential Design & Landscape Services

We can do it for you!

● New landscape design & installation

● Makeover of existing landscapes

● Artistic hardscapes and water features● Water-wise irrigation design & installation

Call 825-0602 x 134 to schedule an appointment for an on-site visit and free estimate with one of our talented designers to explore your possibilities and

have your project completed this spring.

Moana Nursery Rewards Members:

We hope you enjoyed using your Moana Rewards Certificate

Please note that we made some changes to the program. To view the 2012 brochure and read about these changes please click

here.

March Gardening Madness at Moana - Make it

your best spring kick-off ever!

● Start a new family tradition - plant potatoes on St. Paddy's Day. ● Start your 2012 garden by planting a raised bed or a potato pot

with some of our beautiful seed potatoes ● Got seeds? Now is the time to start planning and planting your

garden. We have all the seed starting supplies needed to GROW YOUR OWN. Make this the year you taste the unbeatable flavor that comes with your own homegrown fruits and vegetables.

● For early color plant cool-season flowers - snapdragons, stocks, primroses, pansies, violets, stock, primrose, Iceland poppies, ranunculus and candytuft.

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Ranunculus

UPCOMING SEMINARS

March 3 - Ready, Set, Grow - Moana Nursery Plant Doctor & longtime high desert gardener, Lisa Braginton will share tips to get your season going, showing that you can grow successfully virtually any where that has sun - from a small apartment balcony to a field for the hungry! If you're new to gardening, this is another must class! March 10 - Spring Lawn Basics - Moana Nursery Plant Doctor and longtime high desert gardener, Jim Stanton will share some simple steps to ensure your lawn will be its very best this year - from animal and winter damage repairto feeding, weed control, mowing and watering practices. He'll also discuss other low maintenance, living alternatives to turf grass. March 17 - Edible & Ornamental Herbs - Fresh herbs are good for you, good for the birds, and good for the eye. Learn where and how to incorporate them into your garden or containers and how to cook with them. March 24 - It's Rose Pruning Time -- Master Gardener & rose guru Charlene Oakes will discuss when (April) and how to prune your roses and demonstrate proper techniques. She will also share other care tips for having spectacular roses, especially if you've never grown roses before; you'll learn how easy they can be when the right varieties are chosen. March 31 - Good Bugs, Bad Bugs - Yes, there are good bugs and they are your garden's friends -- the trick is knowing what they do and how to identify them. You'll also learn how to identify the bad bugs and how to control them. Join Moana Nursery's Jim Stanton and Bonide's John Ford for this informative seminar. All seminars are free and held at 1190 W. Moana Lane in our Landscape and Design Center. Seminars begin promptly at 10 a.m. and last one hour unless otherwise noted. Seating is limited to 650 and is first come, first served. Visit www.moananursery.com or call 775-825-0600 for more information.

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