Hello Friends,

What a spectacular spring! Our new location is one year old in May, and we are so grateful to all of you that we have had such a wonderful year. We have some awesome plants in stock and some very fun events coming up. We also received a whole container full of Fermob furniture from France last week - so we are all stocked-up. We hope to see you soon!

Cool Plants
Leucadendron discolor 'Pom Pon'
A brilliant Leucadendron. Growing to a maximum of six feet, though easily kept a bit smaller with pruning, this gem needs full sun, great drainage, and not much water. 'Pom Pon' has flawless foliage and the showy flowers are long-lasting in the garden or in a vase. This guy will take cold down to 20 degrees, deer will not touch it, and it will live happily in a pot on a windy deck, too.

Beautiful foliage - even without a bloom

Unbelievable flowers! WOW!

Cordyline 'Cardinal'
This new Cordyline cultivar is a beautiful grass-like plant with glossy deep-red color. It looks great on pots, all by itself or in a mixed container. As a total bonus, it gets wispy lavender vanilla scented flowers. It reaches three feet tall and tolerates a wide range of conditions. The only thing it does not like is a soggy condition. It will take quite a bit of shade and keep its color, and it will tolerate hot baking sun and is hardy to 20 degrees.

This cordyline is a hybrid between the trunk-forming C. australis and the grass-like C. pumilio. For those who have grown tired of phormium (which sometimes reverts, burns, or gets way too big) this plant is a breath of fresh air.

Cordyline ‘Cardinal’

Agave Mania
Oh, agave. How much do I love thee? Too much, perhaps, for my customers who hate mean plants. Sure, most agaves are a little bit mean. Every member of the staff here knows it, because we have all backed in to one or worse, sat on one. But the cruel injury we suffer has done nothing to dampen our love, so we have more than 30 different types of agave in stock right now. Here are a select few:

Agave Parryi
Shimmering blue foliage, excellent symmetry, black thorns, not too big - this agave has it all. Sometimes difficult to find, we currently have this agave available.

Agave Parryi

Agave 'Blue Glow'
For obvious reasons, this plant sells out whenever we can get ahold of it. Right now, we have it available in one-gallon pots! Get one while they last!

Agave 'Blue Glow'

Agave filifera
This compact beauty is perfect for pots and will tolerate the harshest conditions without a complaint. So pretty...so durable. Great for a front-door pot in the city that never gets watered or a far-flung corner of your garden you can't be bothered to drag the hose to.

Agave filifera

Upcoming Events at Flora Grubb Gardens
with the Garden Conservancy
May 15, 5:30 p.m.
Yard Art and Handmade Places
Jill Nokes, horticulturist/landscape designer, Austin, Texas

Jill Nokes, an Austin-based authority on native plants and ecological restoration, is coming to talk with us about how Austinites are remaking their gardens with art. For her book Yard Art and Handmade Places, she gathered stories from people in the Austin community who had made their yards into oases of art and personal expression. She celebrates those places where people with ordinary means and skills are transforming space with their own hands into an experience that can be enjoyed by all.

Wine and hors d'oeuvre at 5:30 p.m.
Design talk and book signing at 6:15 p.m.
Admission: $25 per person, advance reservation until 5/8
$30 per person, after 5/8 and at door
$45 per person, May 15 and July 10 (program below)

To register, click here or call 415/561-7895 or email wcprog@gardenconservancy.org.

July 10, 5:30 p.m.
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn
A Project by Fritz Haeg

Fritz Haeg, architect and artist, Los Angeles, www.fritzhaeg.com.

Fritz Haeg is an architect by training, but his work synthesizes design principles, optimistic spectacle, and homegrown activism-and he's coming to Flora Grubb Gardens! Haeg is the founder of Edible Estates, series of projects to replace the front lawn-a functionless monoculture that devours natural resources, contaminates the environment, and eradicates native plants-with edible gardens that are responsive to culture, climate, context, and people. These projects reconcile issues of global food production and urban land use with the modest gesture of the domestic garden.

Wine and hors d'oeuvre at 5:30 p.m.
Design talk and book signing at 6:15 p.m.
Admission: $25 per person, advance reservation until 7/4
$30 per person, after 7/4 and at door
$45 per person, May 15 and July 10

Location: Flora Grubb Gardens, 1634 Jerrold Avenue, San Francisco
To register, click here or call 415/561-7895 or email wcprog@gardenconservancy.org.

Congratulations to Ritual Roasters
Our friends at Ritual Roasters (the great people who serve you coffee when you come to our store) won 1st and 5th place in the regional barista championships! In coffee-connoisseur-land this is a very big deal! They are now on their way to the national championships where they'll prove. Congratulations to Chris Baca, Drew Cattlin and the entire staff of Ritual Roasters!

Come and see us soon!
Flora and everyone at Flora Grubb Gardens

Flora Grubb Gardens
1634 Jerrold Ave. at 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94124
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