Join the East 4th Street Stroll!
Thursday evening Aug. 25th 5-8pm
LA’s Most popular FOOD TRUCKS will be serving up delicious eats while you stroll the unique businesses between Grand & Termino.
Participating businesses will be open till 8pm offering one-night-only promos & fun events for the whole family.
Growing Roots will be offering a “FREE” pot-a-plant event for kids and adults alike.
On East 4th Street between Grand Ave. & Termino Ave. in Long Beach’s
Belmont Heights Neighborhood.
These little babies are great for color all year long! They are easy to care for and can used indoors or outdoors. Kalanchoes are more common but their beautiful doubles, kalandivas (pictured above), are fuller and a bit more interesting. Them come in many wonderful colors.
According to Wikipedia:
Kalanchoe, also written Kalanchöe or Kalanchoë is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent flowering plants in the Family Crassulaceae, mainly native to the Old World but with a few species now growing wild in the New World following introduction of the species.
Most are shrubs or perennial herbaceous plants, but a few are annual or biennial. The largest, Kalanchoe beharensis from Madagascar, can reach 6 m tall, but most species are less than 1 m tall.
Members of Kalanchoe genus are characterized by opening their flowers by growing new cells on the inner surface of the petals to force them outwards, and on the outside of the petals to close them.
How to care for them:
-Give them nice bright light (if you put them outside, partly shade is better)
-Water occasionally when the soil dries out. They do not like to stay wet. Make sure there is proper drainage.
-Use a houseplant water soluble fertilizer Spring through Summer.
- You can pinch back dried buds to stimulate new growth & flowers.
