The latest tip from the Red Bluff Garden Club’s website: Fill a container with dry sand, pour a quart of vegetable oil evenly over the top, then push your hand tools in. The sand acts as an abrasive to clean the tools and the oil keeps water from damaging the metal.
You just might learn some other useful tips and tricks this weekend if you head down to Tehama County. Get outta town for the Red Bluff Garden Club’s 50th annual Standard Flower Show. The event includes floral design and plant propogation demonstrations plus a plant sale. You’ll find irises and begonias, dianthus, gerberas, pansies, vines, cut herbs, arboreal branches, vegetables, container-grown plants, combination plantings, and roses.
Since 1955, the Red Bluff Garden Club has planted trees and flowers in public gardens and civic planter boxes throughout Tehama County. Members are also mentors, teaching youth gardeners about conservation, floral design and the art of growing.
What: The Red Bluff Garden Club’s 50th annual Standard Flower Show
When: Saturday, May 7 and Sunday, May 8 – 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Tehama District Fairgrounds Home Arts Building, Red Bluff
Cost: Free
Click here for more information or call (530) 527-9403.
Mom doesn’t have a green thumb? Don’t sweat it. There’s lots to do to celebrate Mother’s Day. Visit these sites for events in 10 north state counties:
Click here for Butte County events.
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Click here for Humboldt County events.
Click here for Lassen County events.
Click here for Modoc County events.
Click here for Plumas County events.
Click here for Siskiyou County events.
Click here for Tehama County events.
Click here for Trinity County events.
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