Spring Gardens: Tomato Plants, Salvias… Create Your Oasis Now
By Cathy Hough, general manager and buyer
A little more than a week ago, the Marina del Rey Garden Center lost a dear friend and employee, Al Romo. You may have seen Al’s friendly face in the rose garden (below) tending to our selection. We will miss Al dearly.
Al Romo
Our vegetable and herb section (below) is one of the busiest areas in the garden center and with good reason: our selection is the best in quality and covers everything from tomato plants to lettuce to dill to bell peppers to basil to cat mint in sizes that range from six-packs to four-inch containers to a gallon. And we receive new arrivals of vegetables and herbs nearly daily. Come on in to discover how wonderful and tasty your garden can be!
Gardeners are preparing for bumper crops of tomatos! Tomato cages in hand (below), this gardener is pulling a cart loaded with tomato plants. Ask CJ, Steve or Roger for assistance. They can help you select what you’ll need, including the best soil amendment, to give your garden the best start possible!
On Saturday, April 21, noted landscape architect, gardener and author Shelley Sparks will give us an inside look at her holistic approach to gardening. Shelley’s goal is to put harmony, healing and beneficial qualities into gardens. Her latest book, Secrets of the Land, “describes ancient practices that help you express your personality in the garden.” We have her book in stock now and it will be available for her to sign on April 21.
- Watch this recent Shelley Sparks video filmed at the Marina Garden Center:
Using Color in Your Garden for Fame and Good Relations
(Below) A new delivery of strawberry pots and decorative pots for concealing a hose has just arrived!
The Marina del Rey Garden Center is fully stocked with a huge assortment of shrubs, trees, vines, fruit trees, perennials, succulents, and colorful annuals and are your one-stop resource for all things gardening! Spring is a great time to plant privacy hedges, add perennials to your existing landscape, plant color in flower beds and containers, watch the fruits of your labor and nurturing grow, and simply enjoy the pleasure that gardening is.
(Below) We have an amazing selection of shade plants.
Our 2+ acres is a great place to take a stroll. In addition to the colorful hanging baskets found near our parking lot and entrance to the store, an entire world of plants awaits you behind the building and stretches quite a distance beyond.
(Below) A hummingbird finds the nectar she needs in this salvia. Ask us how you can attract hummingbirds, butterflies and other fun creatures to your garden!
Spring and summer mean fun, fab, bright colors! Our latest and largest shipment of the year for containers (below) is giving our customers countless fun choices for pairing plants with pots.
(Below) Gardens can be quirky, classic, contemporary–you decide! Stop in today to get some ideas and inspiration from our displays!
Local Garden Tour Calendar
Windsor-Square Hancock Park Historical Society Garden Tour and Party–Earth Day, Sun., April 22
12 noon – 6 p.m.
Tickets: $65, online at http://wshphs.org. Self-guided tour is noon-4 p.m., lecture at 3 p.m. and reception with light supper 4-6 p.m. at Getty House. Tour begins at Getty House, 605 South Irving Blvd., Los Angeles, 90005.
Please wear flat shoes and bring a hat.
Sponsored by Paramount Pictures and Hancock Park Homeowners Association, est. 1948.
Venice Garden & Home Tour – Sat., May 5
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tickets: $60 in advance, $70 day of event. www.venicegardentour.org or call 310-821-1857.
Self-guided walk of some 30 beautiful and avant garde gardens and homes in the Coeur d’Alene neighborhood and on Venice Walk Streets. Start at 804 Broadway at Pleasant View, Venice.
Benefits Neighborhood Youth Association’s Las Doradas Children’s Center, Venice.
