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Join us for a talk by Debra Prinzing, author of Stylish Sheds & Elegant Hideaways.
Part of the 2009 Garden Design Talks with the Garden Conservancy
Wine and hors d'oeuvres at 5:30 p.m.
Design Talk and book signing at 6:15 p.m.
Admission:
$25 per person, advance reservation until 2/27
$30 per person, after 2/27 and at door
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Sean Hogan is the co-founder of Cistus Design in Portland, Oregon, a nursery world-famous for its collection of rare plants and display gardens. His new book, 'Trees For All Seasons' explores evergreen broadleaved trees.
Sean was formerly a horticulturist at the University of California, Berkeley Botanic Garden, where he managed the New World Desert, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, and California-cultivar gardens. He lectures widely, is a frequent contributor to horticultural journals such as Rock Garden Quarterly and Pacific Horticulture, and was the chief consultant for Flora: A Gardener's Encyclopedia.
Join us for an evening with Sean Hogan.
Part of the 2009 Garden Design Talks with the Garden Conservancy
Wine and hors d'oeuvre at 5:30pm
Design Talk and book signing at 6:15pm
Admission:
$25 per person, advance reservation
$30 per person, at door
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We're beginning our 3rd Sundays Workshops!
Get in on the secrets that Clarke de Mornay and Jim Kumiega have for creating the amazing container garden designs you have seen in the store, in vessels ranging from traditional terracotta and gorgeously glazed pots, to found objects like our beloved Edsel.
In addition to keeping things looking sharp around here, Clarke and Jim are two of our busiest garden design consultants.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
Join Jim Kumiega and Laura Stratton to talk about the very best bamboos for our climate and your garden. They will take you on a journey through the world of gorgeous bamboos, helping you avoid making the kinds of mistakes that can give these useful plants a bad name.
Laura keeps us all humming as nursery manager, and as display manager Jim helps create, and executes, Flora's vision in the store.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
Join us for a design talk by Andrea Cochran, the creator of utterly transporting landscapes.
Andrea Cochran's work has been an inspiration for people (like us Flora Grubb Gardens folks) who are interested in modern design and garden-making. Now a beautiful new book by Mary Myers, chair of Landscape Architecture-Horticulture at Temple University, is turning our inspiration into intoxication. ANDREA COCHRAN: LANDSCAPES presents 11 landscape projects in detail.
Featuring stunning photography -- by some of our favorite photographers -- and an essay by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Henry Urbach, Andrea Cochran: Landscapes celebrates the first twenty-five years of an intuitive and reflective creative process.
Part of the 2009 Garden Design Talks with the Garden Conservancy
Wine and hors d’oeuvre at 5:30pm
Design talk and book signing at 6:15pm
Admission:
$25 per person, advance reservation until June 5
$30 per person, after June 5 and at the door
Register online at Gardenconservancy.org.
Download registration form and fax
or contact the West Coast Garden Conservancy office 415/441-4300, wcprog@gardenconservancy.org. |
Not content with the peaked palette of overused palms, Jason Dewees and Saul Nadler, who together make up The Palm Broker, and Saskia Lotfi, principal of Urban Eden and ace Flora Grubb Gardens personage, will evangelize about the diverse and stunning palms that really thrive in our climates and contribute unmatched flair to garden designs.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
Hank Jenkins, principal of Lushland, is a garden design phenomenon and Flora Grubb Gardens asset who will school you in the ways of succulents -- perhaps our favorite ingredient in Bay Area garden design.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
Join Flora to talk about the nitty (and especially) gritty of using some of her favorite plants -- those in the protea family, like leucadendrons, grevilleas, banksias, isopogons, and proteas. Learn how to take advantage of our mild mediterranean climate and stingy water budget to deploy these stunning creatures in your garden.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
The most beautiful succulents are also the most ferocious: agaves. We adore their forms and colors, in sizes from titan to sprite. We trust in their unthirsty ways and keen over their poignantly floral demise. Besides being intriguingly collectible, they are a key resource for making compelling gardens. Let us show you how to use these beauties, with their simple needs, in your own landscapes.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
The architects who designed our building and continue to collaborate with us on all sorts of projects will be hosting a program here and Flora Grubb Gardens as part of the Architecture in the City event.
Showcasing unique and site-specific shed designs, this program inspires people to think beyond "off the shelf" solutions and take design back into their own hands. On display will be designs for sheds that fall under the no-permit-required guidelines for San Francisco. Based on parcels indicative of the neighborhoods they are designed for, the designs will be site specific, built of reclaimed & re-used materials, and they will be—of necessity—off the grid. The designs will also be envisioned for execution through collaboration with a host of local artisan/ craftsmen who bring unconventional and unique visions to the project.
$15 AIA Members | $25 Nonmembers
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It just tastes better when you've grown it yourself. Our very own Clarke de Mornay, veggie farmer since age nine, will help you make selections for winter veggies and from next winter's seed catalogues. He'll also give you the lowdown on preparing your beds, siting your fruit trees, dealing with pests, and making food crops look pretty in the landscape, too.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
Please join us for a talk and book party with John Greenlee, grass guru, author, and garden designer.
Part of the 2009 Garden Design Talks with the Garden Conservancy
Wine and hors d'oeuvre at 5:30pm / talk and book signing at 6:15pm
Admission:
$30 per person at the door or register online at gardenconservancy.org, call 415/441-4300,
or email wcprog@gardenconservancy.org.
Our buddy John Greenlee calls the traditional lawn "a time-consuming, chemical-sucking mistake." In his new book, The American Meadow Garden, John creates a model for homeowners and gardeners: the meadow, a mini-ecosystem in which grasses combine with colorful perennials to form a rich tapestry friendly to all life -- with minimal input of water, time, and other scarce resources.
Come hear John incite "the meadow revolution," to get practical information on creating your own meadow, and to be inspired by the Saxon Holt's gorgeous photos. |
Autumn and winter are a beautiful phase of quiet renewal in our mediterranean climate. They deserve an honest celebration. Join Jim Kumiega, display genius here at the store, and Susie Nadler, our favorite floral designer, for a workshop on creating winter decorations with materials from our own gardens.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. Through December we're hosting workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
Now that our Thanksgiving Open House has become a tradition, it's our favorite event of the year. Lots of our favorite customers come and bring their families, fans of the store in town for their annual fix. The weekend of Thanksgiving -- Friday 11/27, Saturday 11/28, and Sunday 11/29 -- we will be celebrating, serving homemade cookies and drinks from noon to 4. Please join us!
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Our friends at little lane studios will host your little ones in decorating cookies. Don't worry, the cookie decorations will be all natural. FREE.
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You can create your own vertical garden! We can teach you all you need to know. Woolly Pockets make it easy to create a spectacular vertical garden. Using a single pocket you can create a small display, or cover an entire wall by tiling the pockets together. The pockets work well both indoors and out.
Jim Kumiega created the vertical garden we have hanging here inside the store. This garden has been fantastically successful. Jim can give you all the tips and tricks you need to create your own vertical garden, inside or out, large or small.
To help you get started, if you purchase Woolly Pockets at the workshop, you will receive a discount of 15% for the plants to fill the pockets.
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If you've ever returned home from a trip to a tropical locale and been inspired to try your hand at growing those spectacular warm-climate plants, come join us for this "master class." It's amazing how many special plants you can grow inside the house with a little attention. Plus, if you're willing to do some seasonal moving of containers, lots of tropical and desert beauties will thrive outdoors as garden plants. Our climate-zone-denying specialists Jim Kumiega, Clarke de Mornay, and Jason Dewees will wax defiant about hoyas, monsteras, pachypodiums, howeas -- and other goodies we used to think were doomed to obscurity behind the couch.
Come on down to Third and Jerrold every third Sunday at 10:30am. We're hosting free workshops at the store with our own staff experts. |
January is a great time to prune and Jim Kumiega and Sydney Nahay can show you how. Join us for Sunday morning coffee and pruning instruction. We will discuss how to shape shrubs, manage small trees, and trim back perennials and grasses.
Jim is our display genius and a seasoned fine gardener; Sydney, an alumna of the Filoli training program, has a degree in horticulture and is the assistant manager of the nursery.
Learn landscaper techniques for managing a landscape while maintaining a four-season garden. |
Join us for a citrus tasting with Aaron Dillon, a fourth-generation fruit-tree grower who will share heirloom varieties and new hybrids.
Among the varieties we could be tasting (depending on what's ripe in his orchards) are fresh Dancy tangerines, Trovita & Washington oranges, Australian finger limes, and kumquats. We hope Aaron's offerings will inspire food and drink recipes -- and beautiful garden plantings!
Aaron's great-grandfather, Floyd Dillon, founded Four Winds Growers as a source for new dwarf citrus trees that could fit easily into residential gardens and add homegrown beauty and flavor to California living. |
| While the adults learn how to grow tangerines, lemons and the like at our Citrus Tasting, Julie Benjamin of Little Lane Studio will be teaching kids here at the nursery how to make prints with citrus fruits and washable pigments. |
| Come learn about Bay Area vegetable gardening from a local expert. 20 years ago, Pam Peirce published what would become the bible of Northern California home food growing, Golden Gate Gardening. Now she's updated this indispensible guide and will be talking about everything from the basics of where to plant your tomatoes to which heritage veggie varieties work best in your neighborhood and how to use new research on healthy soils. Join us and find out why Michael Pollan says, "If you buy one gardening book, this is the one." |
We're so excited: The same vertical garden panels used for the store's gorgeous, tapestry-like succulent gardens are now available for purchase here at the nursery.
Join Flora Grubb and Jim Kumiega to learn how to use this beautifully designed tool for vertical gardening in outdoor spaces. The possibilities for artistic creations are endless. |
| Julie Benjamin of Little Lane Studios will teach kids about planting in hanging woolly bags. Young ones will be able to compose their own hanging planter complete with easy-to-grow succulents while adults attend our vertical panel workshop. $10 fee for supplies. No pre-registration required. |
Join us for our first Garden Conservancy evening of 2010, a book talk by landscape designer Nancy Goslee Power, author of The Power of Gardens. Soak up beautiful images and discuss expansive ideas that will make your heart swell.
From residential gardens in Malibu to street planning for downtown Los Angeles and play zones for the Pasadena Children's Museum, Power's work in this beautiful book reveals her multidimensional aesthetic. Her approach can range from the lavishly leafy to the restrained, from the homey to the (always quirkily) formal. Each of her projects reminds us of the power that gardens have to refresh the body, center the mind, and liberate the spirit. Nancy will share her process, her work, and her commitment to her community.
Admission: $25 until April 2; $30 after April 2 and at the door. Register at http://www.gardenconservancy.org/events.pl?ID=311
Wine and hors d'oeuvre at 5:30pm
Talk and book signing at 6:15pm
This evening is jointly sponsored by the Garden Conservancy and Flora Grubb Gardens. Admission benefits the Garden Conservancy. |
Join us for a workshop on controlling bugs and other pests using the low-toxicity practices of integrated pest management (IPM).
Annie Joseph, an expert in pest control at the Public Utilities Commission and a seasoned nurseryperson, will share with us her decades of expertise in using commonsense methods to minimize pest damage on garden plants. |
| Kids make rocks into bugs -- with a little paint and guidance from Little Lane Studios' Julie Benjamin. Complement today's pest management workshop for grown-ups with a fun bug workshop for kids. $10 supply fee. No pre-registration required. |
| Join Julie Benjamin of Little Lane Studios here at the nursery for a kids' workshop on painting a pot into a beautiful Mother's Day gift. What a great way for dads and their little ones to show love for mama! A fee of $10 is requested for supplies. No pre-registration required. |
Celebrate Mother's Day with us. Join us for a tasting of teas from Samovar and coffees from Ritual Coffee Roasters.
The tea experts from Samovar will be on hand to guide your tasting experience, and help you understand how the leaves of a single plant (Camellia sinensis) can create so many different flavors. Samovar teas are an exotic vacation in a cup, a profound experience, transformative and stimulating.
Ritual's coffees are a treasure within our nursery's walls. Delve into the many dimensions of coffee tasting with the genius baristas who delight us every day with hand-crafted, single-origin coffees. |
We're sold out for Sunday, but please let us know if you would like to participate in a future hands-on flower arranging workshop here at Gardens by emailing Susie (at) FloraGrubb (dot) com.
Registered participants will celebrate Mother's Day with us at a hands-on flower arranging workshop led by Susie Nadler, our floral designer and mistress of our Cutting Garden.
Surrounded by the inspiring springtime beauty of the gardens, we'll use California-grown seasonal flowers and foliage to create lovely bouquets our mothers can bring home and enjoy for days. You'll also learn to transform succulents into cut "flowers" that moms can later plant as a living reminder of the special day.
$50 per person fee covers the cost of materials, including a glazed ceramic vase. We're offering a complimentary bellini to participants for our Mother's Day toast. (If you prefer to work on just one arrangement as a mother-daughter / mother-son team, you need only pay for one registration.)
If you would like to participate in a future workshop, please email Susie (at)FloraGrubb (dot)com. Sunday's class is sold out. Fee will be collected on the day of the event. |
Join us as we celebrate the publication of Sunset magazine's essential guide to growing vegetables, fruits, and herbs in your own backyard. Sunset garden experts, Johanna Silver and Julie Chai, will show you how to turn your backyard -- or fire escape or patio -- into a cornucopia. From plot to pan, Johanna and Julie will give tips on what to grow, when to grow it, and how to enjoy the fruits of your labor all year long.
At 12pm we're talking about keeping urban chickens with Andreas Stavropoulous of Chicken Cribs. Come meet his adorable chickens and see his stylish urban coops.
Little Lane Studios' Julie Benjamin will be offering children's art classes at 11am, 12pm and 1pm. Kids will learn to print napkins with vegetable dyes. $10 fee covers materials. |
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