Hello Friends –

We’re having a Labor Day succulent sale!

Late rains (remember the end-of-June downpour?) and cool summer weather have left our gardens especially luxuriant this August. Come celebrate the lushness with us. Grab plants now that you’ll want to play with in your garden on those warm autumn days.

Beginning Friday, September 2, we’re offering 20 percent off all succulents, select Fermob furniture, and select pottery. The sale runs till 6pm on Labor Day, Monday, September 5.

These pots will be 20% off!

Succulents on sale! Besides these cuties, the sale also includes cactus, agaves, aloes, yuccas, and the like.

We’ll have some special agaves in stock and on sale, like Agave vilmoriniana, the unarmed “octopus agave,” in 1g. It’s hardy in most parts of the Bay Area. Photo by Saxon Holt

This dreamy Carmel beach scene exemplifies how Agave attenuata
(also part of our Labor Day sale) begs to be used in varied gardenscapes – from seaside dune meadow to rocky hilltop. Photo by Saxon Holt

Rebecca Burgess’s Harvesting Color Workshop

Sunday, September 11, 2011: 11 am - 12 pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens
(free: bring your own natural-fiber white fabric)

What's your fibershed?

Excerpted from Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess. (Artisan Books).
Copyright (c) 2011. Photographs by Paige Green

We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to share the wisdom of author, educator, and textile artist Rebecca Burgess here at the nursery. Rebecca will teach us how to use the beautiful natural colors that derive from our place here in the California Floristic Province to pigment our fabrics.

Excerpted from Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess. (Artisan Books).
Copyright (c) 2011. Photographs by Paige Green

Bring a piece of natural-fiber white fabric from home to dye! Please RSVP online so that Rebecca can provide enough dye sources for all.

After the workshop, Rebecca will be discussing and signing copies of her marvelous book, Harvesting Color (2011). It’s both beautiful and instructive, at home on the garden, craft, and natural-history shelves of your library.

Similar to a watershed or foodshed, your fibershed is the area in your town or region that provides fibers and dye colors needed for textiles and clothing.

Rebecca's work with local dyes and textiles - including growing, harvesting and processing her own dye ingredients - helps to bring the colors of our California fibershed into our daily lives.

Excerpted from Harvesting Color by Rebecca Burgess. (Artisan Books).
Copyright (c) 2011. Photographs by Paige Green

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