How does your garden grow?

FORT MOHAVE Gardeners new to the area may be wondering if they should be watering their palm trees after last weeks cold snap.

Yes, says Star Nursery plant guru and store manager Isidro Ramirez.

Theres a schedule to follow for the trees, Ramirez said. Right now, because it is winter, watering enough to soak the root ball once a week is plenty. Once the temperature climbs to 80 degrees, gardeners should increase watering to three times a week.

While much of the country is still struggling through ice and snow, it is the middle of gardening season in the Tri-state.

Gardening season in the Southwest is roughly October through March, said Ramirez. Right now were getting our shipments of plants for spring and summer color.

Ramirez earned his nickname of plant guru after working with Star Nursery for 10 years.

I listened to the real gurus and tried to learn, he said. I also learned a lot by doing by growing plants in a garden.

Star Nursery, which has locations in Nevada, Utah and Arizona, opened the Bullhead City store last August at 6325 Highway 95. The nursery offers a broad selection of citrus and landscape trees, shrubs, vines, decorative grasses, succulents and cactus, and other garden plants, as well as landscaping supplies from decorative rock to timbers.

Many people new to the area dont realize that given the right care, they can grow almost anything here, Ramirez said. Many familiar garden plants will require afternoon shade in the summer and protection from the cold in the winter, but otherwise will do quite well.

The season for many near-universal gardening staples such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and melons and flowering plants such as vinca, cyclamen, snapdragons and geraniums may be winding down, but possibly less familiar climate-adapted plants are poised to fill local yards with color.

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