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In addition to the helpful advice of our Certified Nursery Professionals, we have more than 30 handouts to help show you how to properly plan, select, plant and take care of your garden and plants once you get home.
Please don't hesitate to pick up your FREE copy of any of these brochures. For a complete list of all of our handouts please visit our website at:
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A great selection of unique gifts, entertaining items, décor for the home and patio, books, candles, soaps, lotions, florals, frames, linens, prints, potpourri, and more!
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SPECIAL ORDERS
Ever had the problem of finding that one special plant or product no one seemed to carry? Almaden Valley Nursery offers a special order program that may be just right for you. If you can't find a plant or product, or if we are out of it at the present time, we will place a special order just for you.
We can usually fill your order in 1-2 weeks, depending on availability and quality, via our vast network of suppliers. So the next time you are frustrated, banging on walls, and plain old "can't take it anymore," take advantage of our special order program. Just ask any one of our Celebrity Service Staff for details and we will be more than happy to help you.
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Frosts can kill tender plants so give them some protection. Put stakes around them (to hold up coverings) and cover with fabric or frost cloth.
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Be a Guest Gardener:
Gardeners love to learn from other gardeners "over the fence." We would love to include a tour and/or an article from one of our readers!
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Contact Information:
E-Mail:
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Telephone:
(408) 997-1234
Address:
15800 Almaden Expy
San Jose, CA 95120-1503
Hours:
Mon-Fri:
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sat & Sun:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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Shady Hollow
Color Dept
Color Courtyard
Perfect Perennials
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Featured Quotation: "A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other."
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1. Purchase and plant bare-root roses, trees, vines, berries and vegetables.
2. Choose and plant camellias and azaleas.
3. Purchase cymbidiums.
4. Purchase and plant cool-season flowers to fill in bare spots.
5. Plant seeds of warm-season flowers for transplants to put out in spring.
6. Continue to plant winter vegetables from transplants and seeds.
7. Many succulents, including cacti, bloom in winter and spring; purchase new types now.
8. Prune deciduous fruit trees.
9. Prune roses.
10. Deadhead azaleas.
11. Mow cool-season lawns. Most warm-season lawns are dormant now and don't need mowing.
12. Begin to feed citrus trees in coastal zones.
13. Treat citrus trees for chlorosis.
14. Start feeding epiphyllums for bloom with
0-10-10 or 2-10-10.
15. Continue to fertilize cymbidiums that have not yet bloomed with a high-bloom formula.
16. Feed cool-season flowers.
17. Feed cineraria.
18. Fertilize cool-season lawns.
19. Water plants according to need (when the rains are not adequate).
20. Irrigate citrus trees.
21. Remember to water plants under eaves where the rains cannot reach.
22. Dormant spray roses and deciduous fruit trees.
23. Dormant spray sycamore trees.
24. Check citrus trees for pests.
25. Pick up dead camellia blossoms to prevent petal blight.
26. Protect cymbidiums from slugs and snails.
27. Control rust on cool-season lawns.
28. Check trees, shrubs, and ice plants in coastal zones for overwintering whiteflies. Control by spraying.
29. Pull weeds.
30. Spray peach and apricot trees for peach leaf curl.
31. Protect tender plants from frost.
32. Stake cymbidium bloom spikes.
33. Near the end of the month, check bamboo in coastal zones to see if it is time to propagate.
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By Tamara Galbraith
So, your once-fresh Christmas tree is moving from Christmas to crispness. No matter. When you're ready to take down the decorations, explore all your options of how to reuse or recycle.
Many communities across the country offer a recycling program, whereby trees are collected and ground up into mulch for municipal use. Areas with lots of man-made lakes sometimes collect and sink old trees into waterways to slow erosion. Check with your local city government or county Extension Office to see if such a tree collection program is in place.
Also, if you have the space and don't mind "the natural look" in your landscape, lay your old tree in a remote corner of your yard; it will make a great hiding and nesting place for birds, rabbits and other small creatures. If you have a compost pile, you can cut the branches into small pieces, and add them to the compost pile. It will take time, but they will break down to beautiful soil.
Whatever you choose, be sure all the non-natural decorations, like tinsel and ornament hooks, have been removed. While sparkly mulch might have an interesting look, it's not very good for the environment.
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Wishing you and yours a very happy and safe New Year!
We are closed today and tomorrow, but will be open on January 2nd. |
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This Week's Question: What is your new year's resolution for 2010?
Trivia Prize: One $15 gift certificate.
Click Here to Answer
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Previous Trivia Question: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created as a promotion for what department store?
Winner: Shirley Berghorn wins one $15 gift certificate
Answer: The character 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' was created for the Montgomery Ward group of department stores!
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One winner per week. If you are the prize winner, simply come into the nursery, bringing some form of ID, to pick up your prize.
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Meet our Celebrity Service Team! |
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Almaden Valley Nursery started as a small family business in 1975. Over the years it has grown to become one of the leading destination garden centers not only in California, but in the United States as well. We are now a stop on every major garden center tour as well as an attraction to customers and tourists from around the globe who have heard about our special place.
Almaden Valley Nursery has been recognized by Today's Garden Center magazine as one of 2010's Top 100 Revolutionary Garden Centers in the United States!
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What You'll Need:
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 3 carrots, chopped
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 4 cups chicken or turkey stock
- 2 potatoes, peeled and diced
- 2 cups shredded turkey
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
- 1/2 cup frozen peas, thawed
- 1 prepared pie crust
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
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- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Melt butter in saucepan and cook chopped onion until tender.
- Stir in celery and carrots and cook for 2 minutes.
- Stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add chicken stock and bring to a simmer. Add potatoes and simmer until tender.
- Stir in turkey, parsley and peas.
- Pour mixture into casserole.
- Top with pie crust and brush with egg.
- Bake for 30 minutes until crust is golden.
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