DID YOU KNOW? In 2021 the Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden donated 7,922 lbs of fresh organic produce to the Fort Bragg Food Bank. We could not have done this without our hardworking and dedicated volunteers.  

In 2022 we look forward to improving our beautiful and productive garden with new varieties as well as some new methods of growing and companion plantings. We will be experimenting with some cool corn and tomato varieties. We look forward to growing and learning alongside the amazing vegetable garden volunteers.

One of our spring projects will be to identify and map the daffodils growing in the Vegetable Garden. MCBG Horticulturist Wyatt Emig and MCBG Volunteer, Isabel Rucker are taking photographs and location notes for each grouping of bulbs. They will identify their division and narrow in on possible varieties.

When identifying daffodils we use the American Daffodil Society’s website to help figure out the division. All daffodils are placed into a division group. There are 13 descriptive divisions that help us break them down. We can decide their division using the Royal Horticulture Society’s (RHS) daffodil classification system. The classification system looks at the colors of the flowers, the size and shape of the petals, and specific characteristics of the reproductive parts. After the flower is placed in a division they also get a letter that represents the petal (perianth) color. Then there is a second set of letters that describes the colors of the corona (trumpet or cup) the first letter represents the eye-zone of the flower, then the mid-zone, and lastly the edge or rim.

Bring new life to your rose garden with a hard winter snip and clip! Join Horticulturist Mishele Stettenbenz for hands-on training and learn basic techniques for pruning and shaping roses and other ornamental shrubs. Class size is limited! Click here to register.
 

Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
February 12 from 10AM to 12PM

This workshop will help you optimize performance from your fruit trees, according to your own needs and the specific environment in which the trees are growing. The focus will primarily be on, but not limited too, the pruning of fruit tree varieties appropriate to the North Coast climate, specifically apples, pears, and select stone fruits. Instructor Di Scott has more than 20 years of coastal orchard experience and a lifetime of horticultural knowledge. Class size is limited! Click here to register.

• Vegetable Garden Volunteer Training – March 4, 11, 18, 25
• MCBG Docent Training – March (exact dates TBD)
• Bumble Bee BioBlitz – April 22 - 24
• Planting for Pollinators – June 4
• Garden Friends Insects & Birds – June 18
• Cut Flower Gardening – July 23

The Coast KOZT-FM, Friends of the Gardens (FOG), The Beachcomber Motel, Coast Hardware & Radio Shack, Community First Credit Union, Redwood Investments, George Petersen Insurance Agency