Plant Nurseries A B C D E F G H I J 1 Plant Nurseries Recommendations within Driving Distance of LAVGC – Nurseries with Gardens
2 Garden Special Time Recommended Pictures Garden Additional Name Location Cost to Visit to Visit Highlights By Available Garden URL Hyperlink Comments
References and Reference Abbreviations used in the “Recommend By” Column Past KAVGC Garden Tours - Garden Tour 3 Northern California Garden App – No Cal Garden App “Gardens Getaways Public Gardens and Special Nurseries/Northern California” by Nona and Jimmie Pierce – Garden Getaways Resources on the LAVGC website - LAVGC website “West Coast Gardenwalks” by Alice Joyce – West Coast Gardenwalks Wikipedia List of USA Botanical Gardens – USA Botanical Gardens Alden Lane 981 Alden free No Cal Garden yes (KLJ) http://www.aldenla Alden Lan Nursery 4 Nursery Lane App ne.com/ Livermore Amador 22001 free Daylilies Garden Tour http://www.amado Amador Fl Nursery Flower Farm Shenandoah rflowerfarm.com/ 5 School Road, Plymouth
Annie's 740 Market free Garden Tour http://www.annies Annie's A Nursery 6 Annuals Ave, annuals.com/ Richmond Bamboo 5601 free 31 acres of gardens No Cal Garden yes (KLJ) http://www.bambo Bamboo Gi Nursery 7 Giant, Aptos Freedom with 100 varieties of App ogiant.com/ Blvd, Aptos Bamboo Bamboo 666 Wagnon free 8 acre demonstration Garden Getaways http://bamboosour Bamboo So Nursery 8 Sourcery Road, garden cery.com/ Sebastopol Berkeley 1310 McGee free Garden Tour, http://www.berkele Berkeley Nursery 9 Horticulture Avenue, Garden Getaways yhort.com/ Nursery Berkeley Cottage 3995 free Garden Tour http://www.cottage Cottage G Nursery Gardens of Emerald gardensofpet.com 10 Petaluma Drive, / Petaluma Garden 498 Pepper Fee 10 AM to 4 Nursery and display American Rose yes (Sondra) http://www.garden Garden Va Nursery;Gon Valley Ranch Rd, Petaluma PM cutting garden with over Society Mag valley.com/ e down hill in 11 Nursery Wednesday 10,000 roses July/Aug 2012 recent years. through Issue Sunday
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2 Garden Special Time Recommended Pictures Garden Additional Name Location Cost to Visit to Visit Highlights By Available Garden URL Hyperlink Comments Geraniaceae Kentfield free Garden Tour http://geraniaceae Geraniace Nursery 12 .com/cgi- bin/welcome.py Lone Pine 6450 Lone free Specializes in bonsai Garden Getaways http://www.lonepin Lone Pine Nursery; Nursery Pine Road, and succulents egardens.com/ph Open Thurs, 13 Sebastopol oto_tour.htm Fri, and Sat 10 – 5 Orchard 4010 Mt. free Garden Tour http://www.orchar Orchard N Nursery 14 Nursery Diablo Blvd, dnursery.com/ Lafayette Rosemary's 12600 $5.00 10 AM to 4 This is a nursery and Karen Jefferson http://www.farmso Rosemary' Nursery Roses Yankee Hill PM garden featuring 8 ftuolumnecounty.o 15 Road, acres of heritage roses rg/content/9916 Columbia Roses of 803 Brown's free May,June roses and redwood No Cal Garden http://www.rosesof Roses of Nursery Yesterday, Valley Road, forest App, Garden yesterday.com/ 16 Today, and Corralitos Getaways Tomorrow Russian 1685 $11-15 April-May roses No Cal Garden yes (Sondra) http://www.russian Russian R Nursery River Rose Magnolia App -river-rose.com/ 17 Co. Drive, Healdsburg Sierra Azul 2660 East free Garden Tour, No http://www.sierraa Sierra Az Nursery Nursery and Lake Avenue, Cal Garden App zul.com/ 18 Garden Watsonville
Sloat Nursery 828 Diablo free Garden Tour http://www.sloatga Sloat Nur Nursery Road at El rdens.com/ 19 Cerro Blvd., Danville
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2 Garden Special Time Recommended Pictures Garden Additional Name Location Cost to Visit to Visit Highlights By Available Garden URL Hyperlink Comments Sonoma 3970 Azalea free (charge azaleas and No Cal Garden http://www.sonom Sonoma Ho Nursery Horticultural Avenue, for groups rhododendrons amid a App, Garden ahort.com/index.h Nursery Sebastopol over 10) wealth of colorful Getaways; West tm perennials including Coast foxgloves and climbing Gardenwalks 20 clematis vines. Over 1 ½ miles of pathways allow visitors to explore every corner of the lush tree shaded nursery and gardens.
Sunset Color 1436A San free Garden Tour http://www.sunset Sunset Co Nursery Nursery Ramon colornursery.com/ 21 Valley Rd, default.aspx Danville The Dry 6556 free Garden Tour http://www.thedry The Dry G Nursery 22 Garden Shattuck Ave gardennursery.co Oakland m/ Yerba Buena 19500 free Gerda Isenberg Native Garden Tour, No yes (Sondra) http://www.yerbab Yerba Bue Nursery Nursery Skyline Blvd, Plant Garden Cal Garden App, uenanursery.com/ Woodside LAVGC website, 23 Garden Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks
Page 3 Gardens Public Garden Recommendations within Driving Distance of LAVGC – Gardens From Other Sources Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments
References and Reference Abbreviations used in the “Recommend By” Column Past LAVGC Garden Tours - Garden Tour Northern California Garden App – No Cal Garden App “Gardens Getaways Public Gardens and Special Nurseries/Northern California” by Nona and Jimmie Pierce – Garden Getaways Resources on the LAVGC website - LAVGC website “West Coast Gardenwalks” by Alice Joyce – West Coast Gardenwalks Wikipedia List of USA Botanical Gardens – USA Botanical Gardens AIDS Memorial 856 Stanyan free Serene setting amongst No Cal Garden http://www.aidsmemorial.org/ AIDS Memo Garden Street, San rhododendrons & redwoods App Francisco Alameda County 43885 S. Grimmer free No Cal Garden http://www.acwd.org/wc_garden. Alameda C Water District Blvd, Fremont App php5 Drought Tolerant Garden
Alcatraz Island Alcatraz Island, $26 docent led terraced landscape of roses, lilies, No Cal Garden http://www.alcatrazgardens.org/i Alcatraz San Francisco tours available succulents and other hardy plants App ndex.php Bay. on Friday and Sunday
Allied Arts Guild 75 Arbor Road at Free Open Garden Tour, No http://www.alliedartsguild.org/ind Allied Ar Cambridge Monday Cal Garden App, ex.html Avenue,Menlo through Garden Park Saturday. Nov Getaways; West and Dec open Coast Sunday Gardenwalks Ardenwood 34600 Ardenwood Tue, Wed, No Cal Garden http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ard Ardenwood Historic Farm Blvd, Fremont Sat.--$2 adult, App, Garden enwood $2 snr $1 Getaways child; Thur, Fri,Sun--$5 adult, $4 snr, $4 child Artesa Winery, 1345 Henry Road, free Artesa Winery is set into the crown of No Cal Garden http://www.artesawinery.com/abo Artesa Wi Winery Napa Napa a hill and covered with earth and App; West Coast ut/vcenter/ native grasses. Gardenwalks
Auberge du Soleil 180 Rutherford Hill free An open-air sculpture gallery shaded No Cal Garden http://www.aubergedusoleil.com/ Auberge d Hotel/restaurant Road, Rutherford by mature olive trees exhibits over App blog/2010/06/auberge-du-soleils- 100 works by California sculptors. sculpture-garden/
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Benziger Winery 1883 London Free The insertory is part of IPM. Garden No Cal Garden http://www.benziger.com/come- Benziger Winery Insectary Ranch Rd, Glen contains salvia, agave, .. App visit Ellen Beringer 2000 Main Street, free Oldest operating winery in Napa, No Cal Garden http://www.beringer.com/winery Beringer Winery Vineyards, St St. Helena U.S. Constitution Bicentennial Tree App Helena as it was alive at the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Berkeley Rose 1200 Eucld free May No Cal Garden http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/cont Berkeley Garden Avenue, Berkeley App, Garden entdisplay.aspx?id=12048 Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks Blake Garden 70 Rincon Road, Free Garden Tour, No http://laep.ced.berkeley.edu/blak Blake Gar Kensington Cal Garden App, egarden/?page_id=2 LAVGC website, USA Botanical Gardens, Garden Getaways
Bouquets to Art de Young Museum Fee Approximately 150 floral designers Karen Jefferson http://deyoung.famsf.org/ Bouquets 50 Hagiwara Tea are inspired by the de Young's art Garden Drive, San objects to create flower designs that Francisco pay tribute to particular art objects
Boyd Gate House 1125 B Street Free Japanese maples, magnolias, Garden http://www.marinhistory.org/histo Boyd Gate San Rafael, monkey puzzle tree. Getaways ry.html CA State Capitol Sacramento Free L & 15th Streets 1/2 -acre World No Cal Garden http://www.parks.ca.gov/? CA State World Peace between N and L Peace Rose Garden 600 roses; App, Garden page_id=495 Garden Streets at 13th covers 40 acres of downtown. Getaways Cabrillo College 6500 Soquel Drive, free Salvia garden with 100's varieties are No Cal Garden http://www.cabrillo.edu/academic Cabrillo Salvia Garden Aptos grouped based on growing areas. App, LAVGC s/horticulture/botanicgardens.ht Website ml#salviagarden California 36501 Niles Blvd., free No Cal Garden http://www.fremontica.com/CNC Californi Nursery Park, Fremont App o/ Niles Camp Joy 131 Camp Joy Donation This is a primarily a teaching facility Garden http://www.campjoygardens.org/ Camp Joy Organic Gardens Road, Boulder requested of biodynamic intensive gardening.. Getaways Creek Reservations appear to be required.
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Charles C. 8520 Fair Oaks Free spring The garden is noted for its display of No Cal Garden http://www.carmichaelpark.com/j Charles C Jensen Botanical Boulevard, thousands of tulips in the spring. An App, USA ensen.htm Garden Carmichael accessible Nature Path for the Blind Botanical allows visually impaired visitors to Gardens, Garden feel the textures and enjoy the Getaways fragrances of a variety of plants. Charleston Park Between Free A bold striped brick plaza set in a No Cal Garden http://www.asla.org/meetings/aw Charlesto The water establishes (aka Google Charleston Rd. recreational meadow continues up App ards/awds01/mtview.html a boundary between Park) and Amphitheatre the slope through a series of terraces the public park and Parkway at and shallow pools lined with rows of private campus. A Shoreline Blvd., cherry trees and horsetails. grove of Grecian Mountain View laurels at the top of the slope marks boundary. Chateau 1429 Tubbs Lane, free Second owner built Chinese garden. No Cal Garden http://www.montelena.com/visit/t Chateau M Winery Montelena Calistoga Chateau Montelena is renowned for App astingRoom its role in “The Judgment of Paris”, a 1976 competitive wine tasting in France where California chardonnays prevailed. Chateau St Jean 8555 Sonoma Free Gardens inspired by country villas in No Cal Garden www.chateaustjean.com/the_gar Chateau S Winery Highway, Kenwood southern France and no. Italy. Rose, App dens hydrangeas,... Chimney Rock 5350 Silverado free Rectangular trough fountain planted No Cal Garden http://www.chimneyrock.com/ Chimney R Winery Winery, Napa Trail, Napa with horsetail reeds (Equisetum App hyemale) Colorful beds of annuals in the inner courtyard Cline Cellars 24737 Arnold Free Situated on former site of Miwok No Cal Garden http://www.clinecellars.com/ Cline Cel Winery Drive, Sonoma village. Garden contains over 5000 App rose bushes Colma Cemetery El Camino Real, free 17 cemeteries (1 pet), cypress trees. No Cal Garden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm Colma Cem Burial place of W.R. Garden Colma App, LAVGC a,_California Hearst, Joe Di Maggio, Website Wyatt Earp,...
Concannon 4590 Tesla Road, Free No Cal Garden http://www.concannonvineyard.c Concannon Winery Vineyard Livermore App om/
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Conservatory of 100 John F 7, seniors 5 Aquatics and lowland and highland No Cal Garden http://www.conservatoryofflowers Conservat Flowers Kennedy Drive, tropics gallery App, LAVGC .org/ San Francisco Website, USA Botanical Gardens, Garden Getaways
Contra Costa 1331 Concord free No Cal Garden http://www.ccwater.com/conserv Contra Co Water District Ave., Concord App e/demogarden.asp Cornerstone 23570 Hwy 121, Free 9 acres of gallery style gardens. A No Cal Garden http://www.cornerstonegardens.c Cornersto Featured on PBS's Gardens Sonoma series of twenty walk-through App om/gardens_uc.php Victory Garden gardens showcase new and innovative designs from renowned landscape architects and designers. Crocker Galleria 50 Post St., San free Giant sundial three stories above No Cal Garden http://www.conservatoryofflowers Crocker G Access to A roof Francisco Market Street and rooftop garden App .org/ garden above a Wells Fargo Bank branch overlooking busy Market Street is reached from the top floor of the Galleria. Note: Best tour of this area is with City Guides ( http://www.sfcityguid es.org/desc.html? tour=11
Crow Canyon 105 Park Place, free Garden Tour, http://sanramon.patch.com/listing Crow Cany Gardens San Ramon LAVGC Website s/crow-canyon-institute CSU Sacramento 6000 J Street, Free 3-acre site. The Arboretum is home No Cal Garden http://webs- CSU Sacra west of the north Arboretum Sacramento to more than 800 species of trees App, USA web2.irt.csus.edu/mailbag/article entrance to campus and shrubs from throughout the Botanical /705/ off J Street world’s temperate regions Gardens, Garden Getaways
CuriOdyssey at 1651 Coyote Point $8 , seniors $6 1.3 acres. Hummingbird, butterfly, LAVGC website http://www.curiodyssey.org/exhib CuriOdyss Coyote Point Drive and seasonal gardens its-and-animals/gardens San Mateo,
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Di Rosa Nature 5200 Carneros fees vary from Protected in perpetuity, the di Rosa No Cal Garden http://www.dirosaart.org/ Di Rosa N Preserve Highway, Napa $5 for Gate property includes a 35-acre lake, a App house gallery wildlife preserve, and native plant to $10-$15 for habitats, including oak woodlands, hites grasses, ferns, herbs and flowers. Domaine 1240 Duhig Rd., free Formal, clipped box hedges and No Cal Garden http://www.domainecarneros.co Domaine C Winery Carneros Napa topiaries. Planting beds introduce App m/AboutUs summer color
Drew School 2901 California free 1,720 square feet and three stories No Cal Garden http://www.drewschool.org/about Drew Scho Vertical Garden Street, San high the garden wall is the largest in App _us/newroots.aspx Francisco the U.S. Nearly 5,000 plants representing more than 100 species of California natives are set in pockets. Created by Patrick Blanc Dublin Water 7051 Dublin Blvd, free ½ acre site of drougt tolerant plants No Cal Garden no website Dublin Wa Conservation Dublin App Duckhorn. St. 1000 Lodi Lane, St free cottage garden, drought toloerant No Cal Garden http://www.duckhorn.com/ Duckhorn. Winery Helena Helena plants App Dunmuir House 2960 Peralta Oaks free Year round Mature trees Olivia Cox, http://www.dunsmuir- Dunmuir H and Gardens Cour,t Oakland Garden Tours; hellman.org/ No Cal Garden App, Garden Getaways Edgewood 10 Old Stage free Natural (500 acres) wildflower garden No Cal Garden http://www.friendsofedgewood.or Edgewood Contains 150 acres of Natural Preserve Coach Rd, App, USA g/ serpentine soil, so only Redwood City Botanical natives grow. Gardens, Garden Getaways
Emma Prusch 647 S. King Road, Free 47-acre park - heritage and rare fruit No Cal Garden http://www.sjparks.org/regional/e Emma Prus Farm Park San Jose orchards, a Plant Science Center, App, Garden mmaprusch.asp two community gardens, pollinator Getaways and butterfly gardens,acres of lawns. Friendship Forest is planted with trees from around the world. Santa Clara Home Composting Program demonstration site
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Eugene O'Neil's 1000 Kuss free Wisteria, ferns, gingers Garden http://www.nps.gov/euon/index.ht Eugene O' Guided tours of Tao National Historic Road, Danville Getaways m House are offered Site Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays at either 10:00 am or 2:00 pm by advance reservation only. Self guided tours on Saturday. Fair Oaks 8100 Temple Park Free 1 acre Water Efficient Landscape No Cal Garden http://ucanr.org/sites/sacmg/Fair Fair Oaks WEL garden is open Horticultural Rd., Fair Oaks (WEL) contains: Front Perimeter App _Oaks_Horticulture_Center/ to the public every day Center garden, Mediterranean garden, throughout the year. Perennial Walk, Common Variety The edible landscape garden, a Native Plant garden, and areas are open only future Asian garden. Also a orchard, during workshops and vegetable garden, and vineyard open garden days.
Fairmont Hotel 950 Mason St., Free Patio garden (lobby level) Cjhef No Cal Garden http://www.fairmont.com/sanfran Fairmont Note: Best tour of this hotel is with City Guides Nob Hill tour (KLJ) http://www.sfcityguides.org/desc.html?tour=53 San Francisco garden (second floor)with beehives App cisco created Falkirk Cultural 1408 Mission Ave, 1888 Queen Anne style mansion, No Cal Garden http://www.falkirkculturalcenter.or Falkirk C Center San Rafael Firs, redwoods, and exotic bunya App g/ bunya trees; 1927 greenhouse; Succulent, International, Habitat, and Dry-shade gardens Far Niente, 1350 Acacia Drive, $50 for tour spring 13 arcres of gardens, azaleas and No Cal Garden http://www.farniente.com/ Far Nient Winery Oakville Oakville and wine dogwoods. App tasting. Appointments only Ferrari Carano 8761 Dry Creek 5 acres. Classic Italian/French No Cal Garden http://www.ferrari- Ferrari C Winery Winery Road, Healdsburg parterre-style beds – 10000 App; West Coast carano.com/visit/gardens/ tulips/daffodils. Enclosed Garden – Gardenwalks 2000 species trees
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Filoli 86 Cañada Road, $15/Senior Year round.; Beautiful house and gardens. Truly Betty Nostrand, http://www.filoli.org/ Filoli Truly a beautiful Woodside $12 (65+) January/Feb year round interest. No Cal Garden historic garden and ruary App, LAVGC house. Spring through Camellias; website, USA fall is a wonderful time March/April Botanical to visit. House and spring Gardens, Garden gardens part of the bulbs, Getaways; West National Historic Trust peonies, Coast and donated by wisteria; Gardenwalks second owner Mrs May-roses... Roth. Original owner (Bourns) owner of http://www.fi Empire Mine (Grass loli.org/expl Valley). ore-filoli/the- garden/bloo ming- calendar.ht ml
Firestorm Tunnel Road and Free No Cal Garden http://northerncaliforniagardens.s Firestorm Saw comment on web Memorial Garden Hiller Drive, App utromedia.com/firestorm- about too many Oakland memorial-gardens.html smokers at this site!! First Plaza #100 100 First St., San Free one floor from streep, popular brown No Cal Garden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_ First Pla This is one of SF's Francisco bag lunch place, waterwall -a ocean- App First_Plaza Privately Owned wave fountain Publically Accessible Spaces (POPAS). Flight 93, 9/11 30700 Carr Way, Free No Cal Garden http://www.flight93memorialsfb.c Flight 93 Memorial Union City App om/ Flood Park 215 Bay Rd., Free 20 acre park famous for oaks and No Cal Garden http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/p Flood Par Menlo Park bay trees App ortal/site/parks/menuitem.f13bea d76123ee4482439054d17332a0 /? vgnextoid=fb6bc8909231e110Vg nVCM1000001d37230aRCRD&c psextcurrchannel=1 Foothill Bamboo 12345 El Monte free but $2 to Created to help homeowners No Cal Garden http://www.bamboogarden.org/ Foothill On Foothill campus Garden Road, Los Altos park (quarters) understand adaptibility of bamboo to App below Japanese Hills Bay Area. 70 varieties cultural center. Supposedly in TLC
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Forrest Deaner Benicia State State park fee 3.5 acre Native Plant garden within No Cal Garden http://baynature.org/organization Forrest D Note: park slated for Garden, Benicia Recreation Area, state park App, LAVGC s/forrest-deaner-native-plant- closure. State Park Rd, Website botanic-garden Benicia Fountain Square 7115 Greenback free Rose garden near Civic Center. Won American Rose http://www.citrusheights.net/hom Fountain Rose Garden Lane, Citrus AARS Achievement for Maintenance (American Rose e/index.asp? Heights award for 14th straight year Society) page=963&recordid=876&ref=96 July/August 2012 3 Issue Gamble Gardens 1431 Waverly free Garden Tour, No http://www.gamblegarden.org/ Gamble Ga Street Palo Alto Cal Garden App, LAVGC website, Garden Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks Garden for the 7th Ave. & Lawton, Free Demonstration garden for small-scale No Cal Garden http://www.gardenfortheenvironm Garden fo Environment San Francisco urban food production App ent.org/
Garden Valley 498 Pepper Road, $5.00 Garden Tour, No http://www.gardenvalley.com/ Garden Va This garden has gone Ranch Petaluma Cal Garden App, down hill over the past Garden years (KLJ) Getaways Gilroy Gardens 3050 Hecker Pass $30.00 Grafted sycamore trees into shapes. No Cal Garden http://www.gilroygardens.org/lear Gilroy Ga Theme Park Hwy, Gilroy Family friendly rides. 6 horticultural App, LAVGC n/majestic-gardens.cfm themed gardens. Website, Garden Getaways Golden Gate Lincoln Blvd below Free 5 acre garden of perennials and No Cal Garden http://goldengatebridge.org/visito Golden Ga Memorial Garden Hwy 101, San annuals App rs/whattodo.php Francisco Goldsmith Seed 2280 Hecker Pass Free Wholesale grower of seeds. No Garden Tour, No http://www.syngentaflowers.com/ Goldsmith Trial Grounds Hwy, Gilroy purchasing of seeds, but supposedly Cal Garden App, country/us/en/seeds/ContactUs/ can view grounds during business Garden Pages/Contact_Us_Main.aspx hours. Getaways Grace Merchant Filbert St. Steps at Free 284-foot steep stairway leading from No Cal Garden http://www.tpl.org/what-we- Grace Mer Nesting area for feral Garden Montgomery St., the waterfront to the top of Telegraph App do/where-we-work/california/san- parrots San Francisco Hill roses, ferns, hydrangeas, banana francisco-bay-area/grace- plants, wisteria, brugmansia, and marchant-garden.html Japanese maples.
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Green Gulch 1601 Shoreline free; parking Flower and vegetalbe gardens. Garden Tour; No http://www.sfzc.org/ggf/default.as Green Gul Farm Highway, Sausalito charge on Restufl, meditative. Ca Garden App p Sundays Hakone 21000 Big Basin Famous for Hill and Pond Garden; The Zen Sandy Yamaoda, www.hakone.com Hakone Huge, quiet, and Way, Saratoga the spring Garden; The Tea Garden, The Garden Tour, No peaceful. blossoming Bamboo Garden Ca Garden App, of wisteria, USA Botanical cherry Gardens, Garden blossoms, Getaways; West and a wide Coast variety of Gardenwalks Japanese maples, the gardens are equally exuberant in other seasons. See URL for more info
Hamilton Square 1000 Broadway free Best from An exquisitely maintained perennial Karen Jefferson http://www.oldcitycemetery.com/ Hamilton Hamilton Square is Sacramento April garden. Great place to see unusual hamilton.htm located on the through and usual perennials. The majority of southwest side of October the plants in Hamilton Square are Sacramento Historic from the five Mediterranean areas of City Cemetery, near the world – California, the the Old Mortuary Mediterranean Basin, Chile, South Chapel. The garden is Africa and Southern Australia. Roses the burial site of donated from the San Jose Heritage William Stephen Rose Garden, City of Sacramento, Hamilton, the Heirloom Old Fashioned Roses and youngest son of Barbara Oliva, are modern versions Alexander Hamilton, of “old fashioned” roses. These roses the first Treasurer of bloom almost continuously for eight the United States. months of the year. Perennials are mixed with the roses.
Hayward 22372 N. Third free No Cal Garden http://www.dmtonline.org/Japane Hayward J Japanese Street (at App se%20Gardens.htm Garden Crescent), Hayward
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Heather Farms 1340 Marchbanks free Garden Tour, No http://www.gardenshf.org/ Heather F Dr Walnut Creek Cal Garden App, USA Botanical Gardens, Garden Getaways
Hess Collection, 4411 Redwood free Grasses and sculptor garden No Cal Garden http://www.hesscollection.com/ Hess Coll Winery Napa Road, Napa App; West Coast Gardenwalks
Historic Orchard, West Taylor and Free 3.3 acre orchard planted with 200 No Cal Garden http://www.grpg.org/HistoricOrch Historic San Jose Spring Streets, varieties of fruit App ard.shtml San Jose Iron Stone 1894 Six Mile free March foir Holds No Ca daffodil show Garden Tour http://www.ironstonevineyards.co Iron Ston Winery Vineyard Road daffodil m/index.cfm? Murphys, days method=pages.showPage&pagei d=eb22ae0d-baa4-ed37-a496- 5293e3b923a4 Jack London 2400 London $6.00 House of Happy Walls Museum, the No Cal Garden http://www.parks.ca.gov/? Jack Lond Service reductions due Historic Park Ranch Road, Glen Beauty Ranch Trail sites App page_id=478 to state cutbacks Ellen demonstrate London's new agricultural tecniques Japanese 1300 Senter Road, Free 6-acre Japanese Garden at the No Cal Garden http://www.sjparks.org/regional/ja Japanese Patterned after Friendship San Jose southern end of Kelley Park. More App, USA panesefriendship.asp Korakuen Park in San Garden western style than other Jap gardens Botanical Jose's Japanese sister Gardens, Garden city of Okayama. Getaways
Japanese Tea 75 Hagiwara Tea $7 non SF late March Beautiful year round, however in late Karen Jefferson, http://japaneseteagardensf.com/i Japanese This is the oldest Garden Golden Garden Drive San residents $5 March the cherry trees, azaleas, and No Call Garden ndex.php Japanese tea garden Gate Park Francisco senior non- rhodendrons are blooming. App, Garden in the US. Enjoy a cup resident Getaways; West of tea in the tea Coast house. Gardenwalks John Muir Home 4202 Alhambra free Garden Tour, No http://www.nps.gov/jomu/index.ht John Muir National Park Ave. Martinez Cal Garden App, m Garden Getaways
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Joy Stairway, Between Brewster Free 150 steps of perennials, shrubsm, No Cal Garden Joy Stair San Francisco St. & Holladay and eucalyptus App Ave., San Francisco Kaiser Roof 300 Lakeside Dr, free No Cal Garden http://www.kaisergarden.com/ Kaiser Ro Garden Oakland App, Garden Getaways Keeyla Meadows 1137 Stannage free Open An artist and landscaper's garden. Roger and Janie http://www.keeylameadows.net/h Keeyla Me Garden and Art Avenue garden days Chapin ome/home.html Albany 3/1 until 7/ 31 the first and second Sunday of each month 1-4 PM
Kendall Jackson 5007 Fulton Road, Free Red and White sensory gardens, 3 Garden Tour, No http://www.kj.com/kendall- Kendall J Winery Winery Fulton culinary gardens Cal Garden App jackson-wine-center Korbel Winery 13250 River Road free Antique roses (250), perennials, Garden Tour, No http://www.korbel.com/Tour_Gar Korbel Wi Winery and Gardens Guerneville shrubs,... Cal Garden App, den.aspx Garden Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks Kruse Jenner free Spring- Call Hiking Trails/Rhododendrons No Cal Garden http://www.parks.ca.gov/? Kruse Rho http://www.sonomahiki Rhodpdendron park for Directions:Highway One, Adjacent to App page_id=448 ngtrails.com/parks/kru Reserve hours Salt Point State Park. Near Fort se-rhododendron- Ross, N of Jenner state-natural-reserve/ Lachryma Montis, 363 3rd Street grounds free Home of General Vallejo. garden No Cal Garden http://www.parks.sonoma.net/lac Lachryma Sonoma West, Sonoma containining perennials, roses, App hryma.html orchard, grapes. Lakeside Park 666 Bellevue Ave., Free Garden Tour; No http://gardensatlakemerritt.org/ Lakeside Bonzai garden is great and Garden Oakland Ca Garden App, Center Garden Getaways Land Park, 15th Ave & Land Free Large city park with lakes, mature No Cal Garden http://www.cityofsacramento.org/ Land Park Sacramento Park Drive, trees, golf course, and ¾ acre WPA App parksandrecreation/parks/sites/la Sacramento rock garden nd_map.htm
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Landmarks Art 841 Tiburon Blvd, Free Offers a panoramic view over No Cal Garden http://www.landmarks- Landmarks Located on part of El and Garden Tiburon Richardson Bay; 1 acre garden App society.org/landmarks/art_garde Rancho Corte Madera Center featuring drought tolerant plants, n.php del Presidio, the roses earliest European settlement on the Tiburon Peninsula, Lester Rowntree 28500 Hatton Free Named for naturalist whose seed Garden http://montereybay.cnps.org/nati Lester Ro Arboretum Road, Carmel collection brought attention to Ca Getaways ve-gardens Natives. 1 acre containing a great variety of native plants Letterman Digital One Letterman Free Site of Letterman Hospital Presidio, No Cal Garden http://www.onelettermandrive.co Letterman Arts Center Drive, San 17 acre landscape park owned by App m/ Francisco Lucas Film. 500 foot stream Levi Strauss 1155 Battery St., Free Two waterfalls with gardens Both No Cal Garden http://tclf.org/content/levi-plaza Levi Stra Plaza and Park San Francisco sides of Battery App Lindsey Museum 1931 First Avenue, External 1.1 acre garden featuring 9000 plant No Cal Garden http://wildlife-museum.org/ Lindsey M Garden Walnut Creek garden free, varieties App $7 museum fee Lodi Japanese 11793 Micke Free 3-acres surrounded by 60 Kwanzan No Cal Garden http://www.mgzoo.com/rental- Lodi Japa Garden Grove, Lodi flowering cherry trees with five App, Garden facilities/japanese-garden.htm Akibono flowering cherries in the Getaways center. Influenced by 3 Asian religions:Buddhism lanterns, Shintoism stones, and Taoism islands. Lombard Street, Lombard between Free 8 switchbacks bordered by lovely Karen Jefferson, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- Lombard S A great story about the San Francisco Hyde & gardens No Cal Garden bin/article.cgi? person who maintains Leavenworth Sts., App f=/c/a/2004/05/08/BUG9B6HLG this garden area. San Francisco D1.DTL When Tom and I visited, we saw him working. Los Altos Civic 51 S. San Antonio Free Working orchard with J. Gilbert Smith No Cal Garden Los Altos Behind the library Center Rd., Los Altos History House. Towering oaks App
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Luther Burbank 204 Santa Rosa Free Garden Tour, No http://www.lutherburbank.org/ Luther Bu There is also a Gardens Avenue Santa Cal Garden App, preserved orchard in Rosa USA Botanical Sebastopol - 7781 Gardens, Garden Bodega Ave., Getaways; West Sebastopol Coast Gardenwalks
Lyon Street Steps Lyon St. & Great views of bay, presidio, palace Karen Jefferson, http://www.hiddensf.com/lyon- Lyon Stre A great way to tour this area is by City Guides Billonaire Tour.http://www.sfcityguides.org/desc.html?tour=34 Broadway, San of fine arts, next to Pacific Heigts. No Cal Garden street-steps-san-francisco- Francisco Next to Diane Feinstein's house. App ca.html Macy's Flower Macy's Union Held two weeks before Easter Karen Jefferson Macy's Fl and Garden Square Show 107 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco Marin Art and 30 Sir Francis Free Ancient trees, lawns, and themed No Cal Garden http://www.magc.org/gardens/gar Marin Art Community resource Garden Center Drake Blvd., Ross gardens - rose, succulent, butterfly App, Garden den_areas.html for education and habitat, fChannel Islands, Native Getaways; West cultural activities. American basketry materials and Coast medicinal species. Gardenwalks Marin Bolinas 250 Mesa Road, Free open only 14 acres; 6 greenhouses; 2000 USA Botanical http://www.calhortsociety.org/Bull Marin Bol See description on Botanical Bolinas on weekends species; 280 varieities in succulent Gardens etins/oct_2001.pdf page 2 Gardens until 3 PM garden. Just created 6.5 acre native Marin garden Marin Civic 10 Avenue of the Free Frank Lloyd Wright designed No Cal Garden http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/ Marin Civ Center Flags, San Rafael building. App, Garden CU/main/flw/cctourarch.cfm Getaways Maritime Plaza 300 Clay Street, Free Sculpture garden and a collection of No Cal Garden http://tclf.org/landscapes/one- Maritime San Francisco small green parks sits atop a parking App maritime-plaza garage. Pedestrian bridge across Clay Street links to the Embarcadero Center with interesting courtyards and planters Markham 1202 La Vista Free Garden Tour, No http://markhamarboretum.org/ Markham A Arboretum Avenue, Concord Cal Garden App, LAVGC website, USA Botanical Gardens
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Matanzas Creek 6097 Bennett free June when A mediteranean garden with field of Sharon Howard, http://www.matanzascreek.com/v Matanzas There is no "official" Winery Valley Road lavender is lavender. Garden was designed by No Cal Garden isit/index.html tour but lovely to walk Santa Rosa blooming Gary Ratway of Integrated Design App; West Coast the grounds. The and are spectacular. His wife is the Gardenwalks winery has a owner of Digging Dog Nursery . wonderful picnic table area up under the oaks to enjoy a bottle of their great wine and a picnic lunch McKinley Rose 3330 McKinley Free Within a 36 acre park, the 1.5 acre No Cal Garden http://www.cityofsacramento.org/ McKinley Garden Blvd, Sacramento rose garden planted with 1000 App; Robbie parksandrecreation/recreation/ro modern roses. Ridenour segard.htm McLaughlin's 18310 Rams Horn Free March to Naturalized daffodils (300,000) Garden http://www.daffodilfestivals.com/i McLaughli Call (209) 296-7048 Daffodil Hill Grade, April. Getaways nsidetemp.php?festid=1359 (recording) for an Ranch Volcano Check update on flowers website Meek Estate Park 240 Hampton Rd, free No Cal Garden http://www.haywardareahistory.o Meek Esta Hayward App rg/about_us/meek_estate Melita's Half Higgins-Purisima free Open the The small garden reflects the No Cal Garden http://www.johnstonhouse.org/in Melita's Moon Bay Rd., Half Moon third Saturday Hispanic heritage of the pioneer’s App dex.html Bay of each month mother-in-law with old garden roses and other flowers popular in the mid- 19th century. Merritt College 12500 Campus free Plant sale in Plantings focus on native and No Cal Garden http://www.merrittlandhort.com/ Merritt C Campus Drive, Oakland May drought tolerant species. A new App, LAVGC salvia garden was planted on a Website, USA sunny hillside in 2009. Botanical Gardens Mission San Jose 43300 Mission $3.00 No Cal Garden http:http://www.californiabeat.org Mission S Blvd., Fremont App /2008/07/31/fremonts-mission- san-jose-stands-as-a- monument-to-east-bays-early- pioneers //http://www.californiabeat.org/20 08/07/31/fremonts-mission-san- jose-stands-as-a-monument-to- east-bays-early-pioneers
Mission San Juan 406 Second Street free Garden Tour http://www.oldmissionsjb.org/ Mission S Not quite clear the Bautista San Juan Bautista status of the gardens (KLJ)
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Montalvo Arts 15400 Montalvo Free Palatial mediterranean historic (1912) No Cal Garden http://montalvoarts.org/programs Montalvo Offers tours of villa Center Road, Saratoga house. 175 acres, 2.5 miles walking App, USA /villa_grounds/ and grounds trails. The Italianate Garden & Botanical Phelan Cactus Garden Gardens, Garden Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks
Monterey 720 Via Mirada, $10.00 Garden Tour http://www.montereyart.org/ Monterey Museum of Art Monterey Moraga Stairway Moraga Street Free 163 steps covered with mosaic tiles No Cal Garden http://www.tiledsteps.org/ Moraga St between 15th and surrounded by perenial gardens. App 16th Avenues, San Tiles were sponsored by Francisco neighborhood Morcom Rose 700 Jean Street, free Year round Roses and historic gardens. Garden Olivia Cox, http://www.friendsofoaklandrose. Morcom Ro The Rose Garden was Garden Oakland but best in built in 1930s. Garden Tour; No org/news constructed in 1932 as spring and Cal Garden App, a project of the Works fall for roses Garden Progress Getaways Administration. It was named in honor of former Oakland mayor Fred N. Morcom. As well as thousands of roses, the garden features winding walkways, a reflecting pool, and a cascading fountain.
Muir Woods Muir Woods Road, $7.00 Muir Woods National Monument No Cal Garden http://www.nps.gov/muwo/index. Muir Wood Sausolito Sausalito protects over 500 acres of forest, App htm including 240 acres of old growth Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). Murrieta's Well 3005 Mines Road, free No Cal Garden http://www.murrietaswell.com/ab Murrieta' Livermore App out-us Museum of 351 Homer Free Former Sunset Mag owner's house, No Cal Garden http://www.moah.org/exhibits/ind Museum of Museum of modern American Avenue, Palo Alto grounds restored to mirror 1940's App ex.html invention Heritage landscape including Victory Garden Newton Winery 2555 Madrona $40 a person; Garden Tour, No http://www.newtonvineyard.com/ Newton Wi Supposedly has Avenue, St. reservations Cal Garden App visit-us/ famous parterre Helena only gardens. Winery
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Oakland Museum 1000 Oak Street, $6 seniors No Cal Garden http://museumca.org/ Oakland M of California Oakland $4.50 App
Old St. Hilary's 201 Esperanza Free John Thomas Howell Wildflower Garden http://www.landmarks- Old St. H Street, Tiburon Preserve, adjacent to Old St. Hilary's Getaways society.org/landmarks/st_hilarys. Landmark, is home to several rare php plants, including the Tiburon paintbrush, Tiburon buckwheat, Marin dwarf flax and the black jewel flower, which exists only in serpentine on the tip of the Tiburon Peninsula. 217 species of ferns and seed-bearing plants grow in the preserve and two-thirds are native to the area.
Our Own Stuff 3017 Wheeler Free – Private Marcia Donahue's Garden is privately Garden Tour; http://www.finegardening.com/ite Our Own S Should check this out furtherhttp://dodsworthville.com/fred/profl/PrOurGal.htm Gallery Garden Street South, garden open owned. Showcases her sculpture West Coast m/19675/another-definition-of- Berkeley to the public with lovely plantings Gardenwalks vertical-gardening-marcia- on Sunday donahue Overfelt Gardens 368 Educational Free Three large percolation ponds rise No Cal Garden http://www.sjparks.org/regional/o Overfelt Park Drive., San and shrink throughout the year, App, Garden verfelt.asp Jose providing habitat for birds and Getaways animals. A garden for peace and reflection. 33 acres. Fragrance Garden and Garden for Visually impaired Palace of Fine 3301 Lyon Street, free Between the gorgeous architecture, Karen Jefferson http://sfrecpark.org/PalaceOfFine Palace of Arts Garden San Francisco location next to the Bay, lovely Arts.aspx plantings, and lake this is a great place to go. City Guides also has a great tour of the area. Palo Alto Demo Center Road near Free 7300 sq ft demo gardens for Santa No Cal Garden http://www.mastergardeners.org/ Palo Alto Gardens Martin Street, Palo Clara Master gardeners. Waterwise App projects/padg.html Alto and Edible gardens Peju Province, 8466 St. Helena free sycamore trees, roses, curly willow No Cal Garden http://www.peju.com/peju- Peju Prov Winery Rutherford Hwy, Rutherford App story/gardens.php Pemberton Place Pemberton Place Free Lush plantings of Japanese maples, No Cal Garden Pemberton Photo only Stairway at Clayton St., San azaleas, shrubs, vines App http://www.panoramio.com/photo Francisco /36581918
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Phipps Ranch 2700 Pescadero 5 to 59 $5 Garden Tour http://www.phippscountry.com/in Phipps Ra Rd., Pescadero everyone else dex.html free Prevost Ranch 4195 Sierra Road, Free Spring Nola's Iris Farm – Bearded Iris No Cal Garden http://www.walking-p- Prevost R and Garden San Jose Nursery open to public in spring App bar.com/shopsite/ Quarryhill 12841 Sonoma $10 Adults Spring – Quarryhill is a 25-acre botanical Karen Jefferson, http://www.quarryhillbg.org/home Quarryhil Sponsors educational Botanical Hwy, Glen Ellen Every Tuesday Species garden of mature, flowering Asian Garden Tour, No .html speakers and events Gardens Seniors free Roses, trees & shrubs. Magnolias, Cal Garden App, Today, Quarryhill is dogwood, dogwoods, maples, birches, roses, USA Botanical home to one of the rhododendr lilies, rhododendrons, and many Gardens largest collections of ons Fall fall others are laced with paths and scientifically colors hidden places to sit and relax, while documented, wild- surrounded by ponds, waterfalls, and source Asian plants in vistas of the Sonoma Valley. All North America and plants were obtained through seed Europe, many of which collection activities in Asia. represent ancestors of horticultural favorites found throughout the western world.
Queen 1690 John F free Early March Beautiful tulips in a lovely setting Karen Jefferson, http://www.golden-gate- Queen Wil Wilhelmina Tulip Kennedy framed by a windmill No Cal Garden park.com/queen-wilhelmina-tulip- Garden – Golden Drive San App garden.html Gate Park Francisco Regional Parks Wildcat Canyon free Garden Tour, No http://www.nativeplants.org/ Regional Botanical Garden Road and South Cal Garden App, (aka Tillden Park Park Drive within USA Botanical Tilden Regional Gardens, Garden Park, Berkeley Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks
Rengstorff House 3070 N. Shoreline Free Oldest house (Victorian Italianate) in No Cal Garden http://www.r-house.org/ Rengstorf Blvd, Mountain Mountain View suraounded by App View welands and English style gardens Rios-Lovell 6500 Tesla Road, free No Cal Garden http://www.rioslovellwinery.com/ Rios-Love Winery Livermore App
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Roadside Located free Catalogs the remaining trees left by No Cal Garden http://www.fremontica.com/roads Roadside The idea for a Arboretum throughout the Califronia Nursery Co, which had App ide/usermap3.php?master=1 Roadside Arboretum Fremont, Union a huge variety of trees. of Washington City, and Newark Township sprang from a 1974 project for Fremont’s Museum of Local History. A group of volunteers developed and published a list and maps of more than 450 landmark trees on public and private land to create a world-class arboretum on the streets of their neighborhoods.
Rose Gardne Park Presidio Blvd Free 1100 roses No Cal Garden http://www.golden-gate- Rose Gard Golden Gate and Fulton St, San App park.com/rose-garden.html Park Francisco Rosicrucian 1660 Park Avenue, Free Peace garden based on gardens No Cal Garden http://www.egyptianmuseum.org/ Rosicruci Museum of Egyptian Egyptian San Jose from Amarna – Upper Egypt App, Garden rosicrucianpark artifacts Museum Getaways Rubicon/Niebau 1991 St. Helena free tree-shaded reflecting pool . No Cal Garden http://www.inglenook.com/flash.p Rubicon/N Winery m Estate Hwy, Rutherford courtyard area in front of the three- App hp story, ivy-covered winery likened to the Tuileries Gardens of Paris. Sacramento 1000 Broadway, free April This is a gem of a garden. Historical Karen Jefferson, http://www.cemeteryrose.org/ Sacrament Other additional websites are http://www.oldcitycemetery.com/ Historical Rose Sacramento through setting (Mark Hopkins and Sutter) are No Cal Garden Garden October. buried here with a superbly App Spring maintained garden of roses of celebration historical value to N Ca. The Historic is held the Rose Garden is dedicated to the third preservation of California's heritage Saturday of roses. It contains nearly 500 antique April and old garden roses with particular emphasis on those roses found in abandoned sites, homesteads, cemeteries, and roadsides throughout northern California.
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments San Francisco San Mateo Event Fee Karen Jefferson http://www.sfgardenshow.com/ San Franc Flower and Center Garden Show San Mateo San Francisco San Francisco free Karen Jefferson http://www.localecology.org/imag San Franc Gardens open during Privately-Owned es/popos_SF.pdf working hours. A few Public Open POPOS are included Spaces in the City Scapes and Places City Guides Tour. San Jose Spring and Taylor free April The garden collects the many (3000) No Cal Garden http://www.heritageroses.us/inde San Jose A joint venture Heritage Rose Streets, San Jose through rose varieties of heritage, miniature, App, Garden x.html between the City of Garden October. and modern roses. If you are Getaways San Jose, the Spring interested in seeing heritage roses Guadalupe River Park celebration this is a place to start. The roses Conservancy, is held the have never looked great (other the South Bay fourth gardens do a much better job), Heritage Rose Group, Saturday of however this is an opportunity to and the many April learn more about rose varieties in dedicated civic addition to hybrid teas and volunteers who floribundas continue to propagate, plant, fertilize, prune, weed, catalog and care for our precious collection of roses
San Jose Naglee Ave & free April An historic garden containing modern Karen Jefferson, http://www.friendssjrosegarden.o San Jose Was voted America's Municipal Rose Dana Ave San through roses. The garden is situated in a Garden Tour, No rg/ Best Rose Garden by Garden Jose October. beautiful old neighborhood of San Cal Garden App, the AARS. In the last Has over Jose USA Botanical five years, the garden 4000 rose Gardens has been brought from shrubs and the depths of despair 189 to the beautiful garden varieties it is today by the Friends of the San Jose Rose Garden
San Mateo 50 E. 5th Avenue, Free Japanese Tea Garden, rose garden, Garden Tour, No http://www.cityofsanmateo.org/in San Mateo Central Park San Mateo 70 varieties of tres, Arboretum Cal Garden App, dex.aspx?NID=718 LAVGC website, USA Botanical Gardens
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments San Mateo 605 Parkside Way, Free Compact garden areas bordering No Cal Garden http://sanmateogardencenter.org San Mateo Garden Center San Mateo Parkside Way include redwood grove App /home with bubbling waterfall and koi fish pond, a rose garden, a paved patio area with seating, and a large gazebo with plants for sale.
Sansome St 15th Floor, 343 Free 15th floor roof top garden with No Cal Garden http://visitsanfrancisco.blogspot.c Sansome S Again a POPAS. Best seen through City Guides “City Scapes and Public Places” tour http://www.sfcityguides.org/desc.html?tour=11 #343 Sansome St., San scuplures App om/2008/06/rooftop-garden-sun- Francisco terrace.html Santa Clara 500 El Camino Free Medieval Garden (St Clare) and wall No Cal Garden http://www.scu.edu/stclaregarde Santa Cla University Real, Santa Clara of roses (planted by San Jose App n/ethno/layout.cfm Campus Heritage Rose Garden) on fence http://www.heritageroses.us/SCU .php Saratoga 13650 Saratoga Free 14 acre orchard and Warren Hutton No Cal Garden http://www.recreationparks.net/C Saratoga Heritage Orchard Avenue, Saratoga House (1896) App A/santa-clara/heritage-orchard- saratoga Saturn and Saturn & Vulcan at Free Gardens, ranging from carefully No Cal Garden http://www.sisterbetty.org/stairwa Saturn an Saturn & Vulcan steps Vulcan Stairways Ord Street, near cultivated drought-tolerant plantings App ys/vulcansteps.htm are located one block 17th St., San to over-grown jungles, are http://www.sisterbetty.org/stairwa apart on Ord St. Walk Francisco maintained by residents. ys/saturnstreet.htm up Saturn, turn right along Lower Terrace and Levant and then back down Vulcan Stairway to Ord
Schramsberg 1400 Schramsberg Beautiful Victorian house and West Coast Schramsbe Winery Vineyards Road, Calistoga Mediterranean gardens Gardenwalks
Schramsberg, 1400 Schramsberg free Victorian mansion, informal plantings No Cal Garden http://www.schramsberg.com/ Schramsbe Winery Calistoga Road, Calistoga of perennials and roses App
Secret Gardens Monterey – see Free Garden http://www.parks.ca.gov/? Secret Ga May through Sept of Old Monterey website for Getaways page_id=952 gardens are open locations of all gardens Sensory Garden 5353 Sunol Blvd., Free Interesting and beautiful plants and Karen Jefferson http://www.lavgc.org/Community/ Sensory G Adjacent (west) to Pleasanton Pleasanton sculpture index.html#sensory Pleasanton Senior Center on Sunol Blvd
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Shakespere Martin Luther King Free flowers and shrubs with quotes No Cal Garden http://www.golden-gate- Shakesper West of Academy of Flower Garden Jr. Drive and (bronze statues) from Shakespere's App park.com/garden-of- Sciences Buklding Middle Drive East, plays shakespeares-flowers.html San Francisco Shinn Park and 1251 Peralta Blvd., free No Cal Garden Shinn Par http://www.museumofl Arboretum Fremont App ocalhistory.org/pages/ shinn.htm Sonoma 3970 Azalea free open Specializes in azaleas and Garden Tour Sonoma Ho While this is a nursery Horticultural Avenue, Thursday rhododendrons it also has 8 acres of Nursery Sebastopol through gardens Monday Staggs Leap 5766 Silverado free drought tolerant plant garden open to No Cal Garden http://stagsleap.com/visit Staggs Le Winery Cellars, Napa Trail, Napa public; Moon garden, Kitchen garden, App Apothecary, and Winemaker's Sensory garden created for staff but available for tour Stanford Arizona Near Quarry Rd Free Designed for Leland Stanford. No Cal Garden http://bgm.stanford.edu/groups/g Stanford Garden and Campus Currently being restored. 58 beds of App, USA rounds/special/arizona Drive, Stanford cactus Botanical Gardens Stanford El Camino Real at Free Open air mall features award winning No Cal Garden http://www.simon.com/mall/landi Stanford Shopping Center Willow Rd., Palo gardens and walkways with App ng/841/ Alto fountains, raised beds and numerous pots Stanford 295 Galvez Street, Free White Plaza, Geology Corner, No Cal Garden http://bgm.stanford.edu/groups/g Stanford University Stanford Arizona Garden, Citrus Garden, App, USA rounds/special/map Campus Papua New Guinea and Rodin Botanical sculpture gardens, and the Gardens, Garden Arboretum site of the Stanford Family Getaways Mausoleum and Angel of Grief memorials Strybing SF Botanical $7.00 55 acres with 8000 kinds of Garden Tour, No http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org Strybing Arboreteum Garden plants;Helen Crocker Russell Library Cal Garden App, / 9th Ave at Lincoln is the largest horticulture reference LAVGC website, Way resource in Northern California;five USA Botanical San Francisco categories of plantings spanning Gardens, Garden Main Gate, Meadows, Temperate, Getaways Mediterranean, Cloud Forest, and Special Gardens Sunnyvale 550 E. Remington Free 10 acres of apricot trees adjacent to No Cal Garden http://www.heritageparkmuseum. Sunnyvale Heritage Orchard Drive, Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum App org/index.html
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments Sunset Magazine 85 Willow Rd free Garden Tour, No http://www.sunset.com/garden/la Sunset Ma Gardens Menlo Park Cal Garden App, ndscaping-design/sunset- Garden garden-tour-00400000015024/ Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks The Ruth 1500 Bancroft $10 , $7 Garden Tour, No http://www.ruthbancroftgarden.or The Ruth Bancroft Garden Road Walnut Seniors Cal Garden App, g/ Creek LAVGC website, USA Botanical Gardens; West Coast Gardenwalks The Wave 615 Western free Year round. A garden overlooking San Francisco Dennis Murray, http://www.friendsofoaklandrose. The Wave Parking is avaliable Garden Drive, Point Especially a Bay, designed by Victor Amador No Ca Garden org/news throughout the Richmond clear day. containing snaking paths and drought App neighborhood, but tolerant paths. there is no official parking lot. Tor House 263044 Ocean $10.00 English Cottage Garden Garden http://www.torhouse.org/ Tor House Tours are Friday and View Avenue, Getaways Saturday from 10AM Carmel to 3 PM. Limit of 6 people. Trefethen 1160 Oak Knoll free Country garden – roses, perennials, No Cal Garden http://www.trefethen.com/visit- Trefethen Winery Vineyards, Napa Avenue, Napa cypress, redwoods App us.html UC Davis Garrod Drive, free parking April Several gardens are definite Karen Jefferson, http://arboretum.ucdavis.edu/ UC Davis There are many other Arboretum Davis on weekend; through Nov highlights: the Mediterranean Garden Tour, No gardens within the UC $7.00 during collection, Carolee Shields White Cal Garden App, Davis Arboretum such week Flower Garden, Ruth Ridson Storer USA Botanical as a native plant Garden (a water wise garden), and Gardens, Garden garden, redwood Peter Shields Oak Grove (80 Getaways grove etc... varieties) UCB Botanical 200 Centennial $10.00 Rose Garden (No Cal Garden app) Garden Tour, No http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.e UCB Botan Gardens Drive, Berkeley Cal Garden App, du/ LAVGC website, USA Botanical Gardens, Garden Getaways; West Gardenwalks
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Special Time to Recommended Additional Garden Name Location Cost to Visit Visit Highlights By Garden URL Garden Hyperlink Comments University 1156 High Street $5.00 Alan Chadwick Garden Garden Tour, No http://arboretum.ucsc.edu/ Universit Arboretum Santa Santa Cruz Cal Garden App, Cruz LAVGC website, USA Botanical Gardens, Garden Getaways; West Coast Gardenwalks
Wente 5050 Arroyo Road, free Spring tour Kitchen garden No Cal Garden http://www.wentevineyards.com/ Wente Vin Winery Vineyards, Livermore App winery/ Livermore William Joseph Corner of Free Arboetrum, thematic planting beds USA Botanical http://www.mills.edu/academics/ William J McInnes Botanic Seminary Ave and Gardens undergraduate/bio/botanic_gard Garden and McCarthur en.php Campus Boulevard, Mills http://www.mills.edu/academics/ Arboretum College, Oakland undergraduate/bio/botanic_gard en_facilities.php Woodside Library 3140 Woodside free Native Plants. Created and No Cal Garden http://woodsideathertongc.org/cg Woodside Garden Rd, Woodside maintained by the Woodside Garden App, Garden i-bin/p/awtp-custom.cgi? Club Getaways d=woodsideatherton-garden- club&page=9513 Yerba Buena Mission St. Free 5 1/2 acres of meadows, trees, No Cal Garden http://www.yerbabuenagardens.c Yerba Bue Located above the Gardens between Third & flowers, falling water, public art, and App om/ Moscone Center Fourth Sts., San small cafes covering two square city Francisco blocks in the South of Market area. 50 fot water fal and 2 acre children's garden
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