Re: San Francisco and East Bay Garden Conservancy Open Gardens
- Subject: Re: San Francisco and East Bay Garden Conservancy Open Gardens
- From: d* f*
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 08:37:28 -0700 (PDT)
In case anyone is interested, there are 18 gardens
open this weekend for the annual Garden Conservancy
Open Gardens Tour, open without advance reservations
on either Saturday, June 2, 2001 for San Francisco
Gardens, or Sunday, June 3, 2001 for East Bay Gardens.
Each garden costs $5 to see, and includes a variety
of garden types. One of my favorite client's gardens
is again on the Tour this year, Susan Springer-James
Jacobs Garden at 1341 Haskell St, Berkeley(open Sunday
2-6pm, and I'll be there as well after the Cal Hort
Plant Sale is over, between 3~6pm). Susan describes
the garden as a painterly oasis, juxtaposing the
subtropical with the arid. If you like bold color,
don't miss it, the Alstromeria is in massive bloom, as
well as many Aloes, Proteas, Aeoniums, Crassulas,
Cotyledons, Cacti, Lavatera, Bougainvillea, etc. The
mature Agave parryi, Golden Barrel Cactus, Dasylirion
longissima and D. wheeleri are also quite nice.
The other gardens open this weekend include:
San Francisco:
Garden of Torre San Gimignano, 140 Laidley St. 10-4pm
Harmony Hill, 1629 Taylor St. 10-2pm
An Italianate Garden on Carl St., 241 Carl St, 10-4pm
Lulu Alley Garden, 494 Los Palmos Dr. 10-2pm
Peter and Eileen Michael Garden, 40 Presidio Terrace,
10-4pm
Russian Hill Garden, 940 Green St. 10-2pm
Deborah and Michael Shepard Garden, 2699 Filbert St.
10-4pm
Shila's Garden Delight, 1911 Sacramento St 10-4pm
Barbara Stevens Garden, 183 Edgewood Ave. 10-2pm
East Bay gardens, on Sunday June 3, 2001:
Lemon Hill, 1539 Versailles Ave. Alameda, 10-4pm
Madden-Thompson Garden, 400 Haight Ave. Alameda 2-6pm
Watts/Coup Garden, 1000 Park Ave. Alameda 4-8pm
Jenny and Scott Fleming Garden, 2750 Shasta Rd.
Berkeley 10-4pm
Our Own Stuff Garden Gallery(Marcia Donahue's Garden),
3017 Wheeler St. Berkeley, 10-6pm
Suzanne Porter Garden, 2810 Webster St Berkeley,
10-6pm
Sims-Allmond Garden, 42 Brookside Ave Berkeley 10-2pm
Susan Springer-James Jacobs Garden, 1341 Haskell St.
2-6pm
Osmond Garden, 5548 Lawton Ave. Oakland 2-6pm
For those of you who would rather purchase plants than
see gardens this weekend, the California Horticultural
Society is having their annual sale this Sunday, June
3, 2001, 10-2pm at the Lake Merritt Garden Center,
with members only preview sale on Saturday evening at
6pm, (Entry $5 and a member of Cal Hort, memberships
can be purchased at the door)
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