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16 | Four Seasons Hemet Herald | April 2019 | With all of the rainfall we have experienced this winter, we now are enjoying the natural wonders and beauty that good rainfall provides us. Take a look at the green winter wheat fields, rolling emerald hill sides, snow-capped mountains, and beautiful California poppies peaking out all around us. Where can one find a better place than right here to enjoy the breathtaking beauty this season provides? Soon our Four Seasons community, which has many flowering trees and plants, will also start waking up after a cold and wet winter sleep and color will pop out everywhere. Here are a few reminders and pointers for homeowners as we start the growing season. Start giving your landscape a boost with fertilizers applicable to the kind of landscape you have. Add mulch, keeping a two to three inch blanket. Mulch will help keep your soil cool during the hot summer months and warm during the cooler winter days. Artistic just spread fertilizer throughout our community and in April they will be applying mulch. Frost damaged plants can now be trimmed as we can assume the frost conditions are behind us. At our recent Landscape Committee meeting we discussed with Artistic the care of our roses and we are asking that they fertilize our roses monthly starting now through October. A committee member, Bob Frahm, has many years of landscape experience here in our area and gave some very helpful steps to good rose care. He indicates that roses need at least six hours of sun a day, they enjoy a deep mulch of at least two to three inches, water deeply enough to moisten the soil to a depth of 12" to 18," fertilize on a regular basis (monthly from March to October), apply pest and disease control as needed, and trace elements are needed in our area where there exists heavy alkaline content. In this community we are not blessed with the best of soils and feeding all of our landscape is a necessity if you want healthy plants. Enjoy the upcoming spring months and happy gardening. Landscape Committee