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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Rose's a go go ...

A good way to be a drought landscaper is to plant a rose garden with drip watering.

Nicely spaced rose's will consume a lot of yard space, use very little water and provide a source of beauty and joy for you and your neighbors.

Rick's Picks Plants has many time proven varieties of roses on board the "Big Plant Van".

I really like how a well nourished and pruned rose plant will continually blossom providing a new view everyday.

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Monday, May 11, 2015

Drought Resistant Plants and Vacations .. Just Go! .... forget about um

We are ok if you go...... water us when you get back.

No Really, You don't need your neighbor to water us.. go

We will be just as as happy to see you when you return as the dog.

Bring back a succulent cutting from where you are going.

Dont worry about wilting.... we do not wilt ...

Let's see the neighbors lawn do this..

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Monday, February 24, 2014

Fantasia Nectarine ,,,,,yum

Fantasia is a variety of Nectarine which is a member of the Prunus family. Its botanical name is Prunus persica nucipersica 'Fantasia'. Fantasia normally grows with a tree-like habit with a max height of 13.00 feet (that's 4.00 metres metric).

When to plant Nectarine 'Fantasia' in the northern hemisphere*

The most popular months to sow Fantasia are Feb, Aug, and Jan.

The most popular months to plant out Fantasia outside are Feb, Oct, and Jan.

Sow
Transplant
Harvest

* This planting schedule has been generated directly from our members observations whilst growing Nectarine. Help us make this more accurate by logging your observations too!

When to plant Nectarine 'Fantasia' in the southern hemisphere*

The most popular months to sow Nectarine are Sep, Jun, and Dec.

The most popular months to plant out Nectarine are Jun, Sep, and Dec.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentines to all....

Toktam Na originally shared ... Nature Photography

Flowers tell the story

Friday, February 7, 2014

Ricks Picks Plants Big Plant Van goes to your Home or Office

Rick's Picks Plants is mobile.

If your office needs some greenery.

If your home needs some fresh life.

If you need a truck to transport your plants.

Rick's Picks Big Plant van will do the job.

Interior Plants, Exterior plants, Trees, Vegetables,
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Monday, February 3, 2014

Gala Apples grow well in Southern Califirnia

Gala is a clonally propagated apple with a mild and sweet flavor. Gala apples ranked at number 2 in 2006 on the US Apple Association's list of most popular apples, after Red Delicious and before Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, and Fuji (in order).^[1]

Gala apples are small and are usually red with a portion being greenish or yellow-green, vertically striped. Gala apples are fairly resistant to bruising and are sweet, grainy, with a mild flavor and a thinner skin than most apples. Quality indices include firmness, crispness, and lack of meal worms.

Gala apples are grown from May through September in the northern hemisphere, but, like most apples, are available almost all year through the use of cold storage and controlled atmosphere storage. Australian Gala are available from late January. California fruit is available until October. While the season usually lasts only 9 or 10 months, they are able to last all year round. However due to some apples continuing to be grown in some orchards, and the fact that they can be refrigerated for some months, leads to the availability of the Gala apple year round in some Australian markets. These usually taste different (slightly less sweet) from those in season.The UK season begins in late summer (August). Storage makes the UK fruit available nearly year round as with fruit from other origins.

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Friday, January 31, 2014

Blood Oranges are full of flavor.

Blood Oranges are new to consumers and are very tasty.

The blood orange is a variety of orange (Citrus × sinensis) with crimson, almost-blood-colored flesh. The fruit is smaller than an average orange; its skin is usually pitted, but can be smooth. The distinctive dark flesh color is due to the presence of anthocyanins, a family of antioxidant pigments common to many flowers and fruit, but uncommon in citrus fruits.^[1] The flesh develops its characteristic maroon color when the fruit develops with low temperatures during the night.^[2] Sometimes there is dark coloring on the exterior of the rind as well, depending on the variety of blood orange. The skin can be tougher and harder to peel than that of other oranges.

While all oranges are likely of hybrid origin between the pomelo and the tangerine,^[3] blood oranges originated as a mutation of the sweet orange.^[4]

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Monday, January 27, 2014

Orange Blossom Special

Look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
Hey, look a-yonder comin'
Comin' down that railroad track
It's the Orange Blossom Special
Bringin' my baby back

Well, I'm going down to Florida
And get some sand in my shoes
Or maybe Californy
And get some sand in my shoes
I'll ride that Orange Blossom Special
And lose these New York blues

"Say man, when you going back to Florida?"
"When am I goin' back to Florida? I don't know, don't reckon I ever will."
"Ain't you worried about getting your nourishment in New York?"
"Well, I don't care if I do-die-do-die-do-die-do-die."

Hey talk about a-ramblin'
She's the fastest train on the line
Talk about a-travellin'
She's the fastest train on the line
It's that Orange Blossom Special
Rollin' down the seaboard line

by Johnny Cash

Thursday, August 29, 2013

I am a follower.

Barry Blanchard

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I'm in a flowery mood today.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde

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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Haas Avocado Tree

The Hass avocado /ˈhæs/, sometimes marketed as the Haas avocado /ˈhɑːs/, is a cultivar of avocado with dark green-colored, bumpy skin.^[1] It was first grown and sold by Southern California mail carrier and amateur horticulturist Rudolph Hass, who also gave it his name.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The Hass avocado is a large-sized fruit^[4] weighing 200-300 grams. When ripe the skin becomes a dark purplish-black and yields to gentle pressure.^[5] When ready to serve, it becomes white-green in the middle part of the inner fruit.

Owing to its taste, size, shelf-life, high growing yield and in some areas, year-round harvesting, the Hass cultivar is the most commercially popular avocado worldwide. In the United States it accounts for more than 80% of the avocado crop, 95% of the California crop and is the most widely grown avocado in New Zealand.^[2]^[5]

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Monday, July 15, 2013

Dracaena reflexa, commonly called Pleomele or the Song of India,

Dracaena reflexa, commonly called Pleomele or the Song of India,

Dracaena reflexa is a popular ornamental plant, both in the landscape and the home. It can be enjoyed as a specimen plant, accent, or pruned to create a border. Several cultivars have been selected, particularly variegated clones with cream and yellow-green margins. It performs well as a houseplant, tolerating infrequent waterings. It prefers bright, filtered light, without direct sun exposure, restricted outdoors to zones 10–11. It has average water needs and should be fertilizedbi-weekly when actively growing. Although it can survive in relatively low light levels, the plant may grow spindly if given insufficient light. When grown indoors, temperatures of 18 °C to 25 °C (64 °F to 77 °F) should be maintained. It can be propagated via herbaceous stem cuttings.

Traditional medicine practitioners of Madagascar have long believed Dracaena reflexa to curemalarial symptoms, poisoning, dysentery, diarrhea, dysmenorrhea, and to be useful as anantipyretic and hemostatic agent. The leaves and bark are mixed with parts of a number of other native plants and mixed into tisanes. Its effectiveness in any such treatment remains unproven.^[4]

The fruit of D. reflexa is also important to the diet of the Malagasy Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur(Varecia variegata variegata).^[5] The Frégate beetle (Polposipus herculeanus), an endangered species endemic to Frégate Island (Seychelles), is also known to associate with this plant.^[6]