Roseville Better Gardens Club, Roseville, CA

09/15/2026

🐝🌸 Join us for our first meeting of the new club year! 🌸🐝

The Roseville Better Gardens Club welcomes you this Wednesday, September 16th at Maidu Community Center. Doors open at 12:30 PM, with guest speakers Larry Hutteball and Kasra Kasravi sharing an informative and engaging presentation on Honeybees & Beekeeping—and why these amazing pollinators are so important to our gardening world! 🌻🐝

All are welcome! We hope to see you there! 🌿

07/08/2026

We are honored to have the CGCI FB page share an article from our May Newsletter.

FOCUS ON NATIVES: FOOTHILL PENSTEMON
“Penstemon heterophyllus”
--From the Newsletter of Roseville Better Gardens Club

This plant is a fast-growing, easy-to-grow, and hardy perennial herb; native to California and endemic (limited to California). Prefers sun to light shade, with moderate water and good drainage. Characteristics include 3-5 ft tall, and up to 5 ft wide. It is deer-resistant.

It flowers in clusters of blue, lavender, purple, and magenta tubular flowers, starting in May and through mid-summer. It naturally grows on slopes in grasslands, chaparral, woodlands, foothills, yellow pine forests, and coastal mountains.
Companion plants include manzanita, toyon, oak, lemon berry shrub, California Sagebrush, California Buckwheat, Sticky Monkey Flower, California Bush Sunflower, and another penstemon, “Scarlet Bugler.” It supports hummingbirds, bats, birds, bees, caterpillars, and butterflies.

It can be purchased at nurseries that carry California native plants.

Source/Photo Credit: calscape.org

www.CaliforniaGardenClubs.com

05/18/2026

From member Sharleen M. 🤣🤣🤣

03/15/2026

Join us this Wednesday, March 18th is our General meeting at Maidu Community Center! Doors open at 12:30! Our March speakers are TWO Master Gardeners, Bill Fastiggi and David Shield will presetn Basics of Irrigation!

This talk covers the evolution of drip irrigation practices at the Loomis Master Gardener Demo Garden. Recommendations on drip irrigation planning, materials and maintenance will be included.

Learn how you can get started on low-water irrigation, and enjoy
the lower-cost benefits for improving your landscape.

01/29/2026

Check this out! CGCI shared an article from our newsletter on their page. This was a great article written by our very own newsletter editor Wendi Fuerstenberger. 😊

California’s State Bird: California Quail
--From the Newsletter of Roseville Better Gardens Club

The California quail (Lophortyx californica), also known as the valley quail, became the official state bird in 1931. A widely distributed and prized game bird, it is known for its hardiness and adaptability. Plump, gray-colored, and smaller than a pigeon, the California quail sports a downward curving black plume on top of its head and black bib with white stripe under the beak. Flocks number from a few to 60 or more in the fall and winter months, but in the spring break into pairs. They nest in hollows scratched in the ground and concealed by foliage, and their eggs, 6 to 28 in number, are creamy white and thickly spotted with golden brown.

Photo source: https://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/state-symbols/

www.CaliforniaGardenClubs.org

12/19/2025