


Heat’s On
This post is sponsored by Heat’s On These roses can handle a serious scorcher By Dan Vierria June 2023 Embrace Sacramento’s first flush of rose blooms. Soon, our beloved roses may be scorched like a toaster Pop-Tart. The American Rose Society says temperatures above...
Goof Offs
Inglorious garden goofs, accompanied by groans or expletives, are painfully inevitable. To goof is human, but navigating the minefield of mayhem is less painful when you know where to step.
Severing a drip irrigation line is a common garden goof. Polyethylene tubing is often buried by bark mulch, foliage or soil. Once pierced by a shovel head, hoe or hand pruners, the line must be repaired with spare parts or worse—an annoying trip to the garden center for necessary parts. Either way, it is a disruption.
Always expose drip irrigation lines before working in an area. Pull the landscape staples that secure the lines and move the tubing away before digging or weeding.

Gone To Pot
Rising utility bills and grocery prices can be a gut-punch, especially when tethered to other daily challenges. No wonder studies reveal sufferings from anxiety and depression have tripled in recent years.
Beat back the blues with flowers! Containers of cheery, happy blooms fill the heart with joy.
Trek to the neighborhood nursery and buy armfuls of ostentatious annuals. Select big, bold containers and sacks of quality potting soil. These are baby steps to designing and erecting an adult happy place. Spectacular containers add decorative focal points and supercharge an emotional boost and sense of accomplishment.

Parkside Views
Parkside Views Curtis Park Home Tour features light-filled remodel By Cecily Hastings April 2023 Peter Colussy and Willie Recht found a home in Curtis Park, in more ways than one. Recht is CEO of the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region and Colussy is director...
Boxed In
About five years ago, Sebastian Bariani moved from his Land Park home to be closer to the Bariani family’s olive groves in Zamora, north of Woodland. He became intrigued with the idea of constructing his new farm home with steel shipping containers.