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Learn to design beautiful dish gardens and compositions with succulents. Make a gift for your beloved or share a workshop together.
Your guide will be Flora Grubb Gardens' own Patrick Lannan - one of our garden-design specialists. He'll discuss the nuts and bolts of using succulents in compositions and the basics of care for these charming "forever flowers."
No charge for the workshop. Pay only for your materials - plants, containers, and soil.
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Create a beautiful Bird Cage Aerium.
Our own tillandsia specialist Zenaida Sengo will guide you in creating your own Bird Cage Aerium. She will also teach the nuts and bolts of caring for tillandsia air plants.
Sign up in our Web Shop. The $95 fee covers all supplies and you'll go home with your own creation. |
Learn to design beautiful dish gardens and compositions with succulents. Make a gift for your beloved or share a workshop together.
Your guide will be Flora Grubb Gardens' own Patrick Lannan - one of our garden-design specialists. He'll discuss the nuts and bolts of using succulents in compositions and the basics of care for these charming "forever flowers."
No charge for the workshop. Pay only for your materials - plants, containers, and soil. |
Come meet Flora Grubb Gardens' expert in tillandsia air plants, Zenaida Sengo and learn about all the cool things you can do with these exotic beauties. Because they need no soil, they can live in places (and on objects) few other plants can.
Zenaida will show you how to create living sculpture, vertical gardens, and miniature living worlds. You'll also gain confidence in caring for these durable jungle dwellers. |
Learn to create living gifts and decor with succulents - from everlasting bouquets and centerpieces, to otherworldly forest sculptures, terrariums and dish gardens.
Your guide will be Flora Grubb Gardens' own Patrick Lannan - one of our garden-design specialists. He'll discuss the nuts and bolts of using succulents in craft and the basics of care for these charming "forever flowers." |
One of the best books of the year for crafty gardeners is Rebecca Burgess's Harvesting Color. We'd love for you to come meet Rebecca and hear about her groundbreaking work making beautiful clothing with local dyes and fabrics - including growing, harvesting and processing her own dye ingredients.
Her last visit drew a big crowd, and many people have asked for an encore. It's also a great opportunity to purchase a signed copy of the book as a gift.
Rebecca's concept of the "fibershed" is similar to a watershed or foodshed. It is the area in your region that provides fibers and dye colors needed for textiles and clothing. Rebecca's work helps to bring the colors of our California fibershed into our daily lives. |
Come for a demonstration of the many ways to use succulents in decoration - from everlasting bouquets and centerpieces, to otherworldly forest sculptures, terrariums and dish gardens.
Your guide will be Flora Grubb Gardens' own Patrick Lannan - one of our garden-design specialists. He'll discuss the nuts and bolts of using succulents in craft and the basics of care for these charming "forever flowers." |
| Come on down to the nursery for garden chat, free hot cider, a demonstration of craft with succulents (1pm), drinks from Ritual coffee, and a lunchtime taquito bar by our neighbor Ray from La Laguna Taqueria. Festivities run 10am to 4pm, and we're open regular hours, 10am - 5pm, for shopping. |
Come join Flora Grubb for a talk with architect and designer Seth Boor, product designer Sascha Retailleau, and jeweler Julia Turner.
Flora Grubb is launching not one but two new Bay Area-made products this season. She and her collaborators will be discussing the creative process and local sourcing. Bringing something from an idea to a thing that you can hold in your hand is a fascinating story. We're divorced from so much of the making process, it sometimes doesn't occur to us to ask, who made this thing I am touching? How did it come to be? Was it made by a machine or by human hands?
Flora would love for you to meet the team that helped us bring these ideas to life.
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If you missed Friday's talk, join Flora Grubb Gardens' expert in tillandsia air plants, Zenaida Sengo, for a demonstration of all the cool things you can do with these exotic beauties. Because they need no soil, they can live in places (and on objects) few other plants can.
Zenaida will show you how to create living sculpture, vertical gardens, and miniature living worlds. You'll also gain confidence in caring for these durable jungle dwellers. |
Come on down to the nursery for garden chat, free hot cider, a demonstration of tillandsia air-plant craft (1pm), Ritual coffee, and a lunchtime taquito bar by our neighbor Ray from La Laguna Taqueria. We'll also have a discussion at 11am about how we're making our newest products here in the Bay Area.
Festivities run 10am to 4pm, and we're open regular hours, 9am - 5pm, for shopping. |
Join Flora Grubb Gardens' expert in tillandsia air plants, Zenaida Sengo, for a demonstration of all the cool things you can do with these exotic beauties. Because they need no soil, they can live in places (and on objects) few other plants can.
Zenaida will show you how to create living sculpture, vertical gardens, and miniature living worlds. You'll also gain confidence in caring for these durable jungle dwellers. |
| Come on down to the nursery for garden chat, free hot cider, a demonstration of tillandsia air-plant craft (11am), Ritual coffee, and a lunchtime taquito bar by our neighbor Ray from La Laguna Taqueria. Festivities run 10am to 4pm, and we're open regular hours, 9am - 5pm, for shopping. |
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011: 5:30pm - 7:30 pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens
It took more than a village to conceive, plan, design, plant and maintain an elevated mile long public garden on an abandoned railroad track in New York City. Patrick has been involved with this urban regenerative project for much of its conceptual and practical life. Join us for a social hour and Patrick's vibrant illustrated talk. The event includes wine and h'orderves and is generously sponsored by Fermob, the makers of our colorful bistro furniture.
Presented by the Garden Conservancy and Flora Grubb Gardens.
Admission:
Pre-registration: $25 per person
At the door: $30 per person
Pre-register on the Garden Conservancy website.
Patrick Cullina, horticultural designer, photographer, and lecturer, served as Vice President of Horticulture and Park Operations for Friends of the High Line in New York City and as Vice President of Horticulture, Operations and Science Research at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He has also worked as consultant and adviser to a wide range of municipal, commercial, and private projects. His achievements in public horticulture has been recognized by a number of organizations, earning the Garden Club of New Jersey/National Garden Clubs Inc.'s Gold Medal in 2005 and the Garden Club of America's Zone Horticulture Commendation in 2010.
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"How to Resist Your Desire to Control Nature"
$20 AIA Members | $30 General Admission
Friday September 23rd, 3pm to 5pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens
Registration through the American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter.
As architects venture further into the realm of landscape design, there is an increasing need to get beyond the tired palette of equisetum and bamboo and embrace the unruly, changeable, and ultimately uncontrollable aspects of nature.
Join Bonnie Bridges, AIA and Seth Boor of Boor Bridges Architecture and Flora Grubb for an interactive workshop exploring messy nature and its power to transform mood and space. Participants will have the opportunity to design their own model planting arrangement and present it to the group. A discussion and cocktails will follow! |
Sunday, September 11, 2011: 11 am - 12 pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free: bring your own natural-fiber fabric)
What's your fibershed?
Author, educator, and textile artist Rebecca Burgess will teach us how to use the beautiful natural colors that derive from our place in the California Floristic Province (the land we call home, designated by flora not politics) to pigment our fabrics.
Bring a piece of natural-fiber white fabric from home to dye!
Please RSVP 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).
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 fibershed to life. |
Saturday, July 23, 2011: 11am - 1pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (materials fee)
Come play with Peg Conley, Words and Watercolors greeting card creator, as she provides basic lessons in drawing and watercolor painting. Pick any plant that inspires you and render it's unique look in pencil/watercolor.
Bring your own materials or, for a $12 materials fee, Peg will have available sketchbooks and 8 tray watercolor sets. No end-of-class grades, critiques or judgments - just have fun and express yourself.
Please RSVP so the correct amount of materials can be purchased. |
Sunday, July 17, 2011: 11am - 12pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free)
How to Design with Gorgeous Rosette Succulents
Sean Hogan will talk with you about how to use our favorite rosette succulents - like agaves, yuccas, echeverias, bromeliads - in making beautiful gardens. One of the premier plant explorers in North America, Sean will also be giving a sneak peek of cool new succulent rosette plants he's propagating at his astonishing nursery in Portland.
We ask that you RSVP so that we can gauge how many people will be coming - but there is no assigned seating and the event is open to anyone who would like to come along. Best to arrive by 10:30.
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Saturday, July 16, 2011: 11am - 1pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free)
The Sunset Western Garden Book boasts of having "more than 8,000 plants" in its pages.
"You really don't have enough room for all of them" says garden-design coach Billy Goodnick, who adds, "You need tools to help you sort through the overload. The Design Like a Pro Workshop teaches you how purchase with purpose, so you can bring home the only best plants for your garden."
Here are some principles Billy will discuss:
o Before you buy: Observe and understand your garden: sun, wind, purpose of the space. Decide what you want from it - entertaining, chilling, playing, farming?
o What style are you going for? Traditional, contemporary, Mediterranean, naturalistic?
o What can these plants do for you? Screen views, provide shade, enclose a space, provide food and habitat?
o What size do they need to be and where do you put them? Billy sorts plants into four categories: tree, high, medium, and low.
o Will they thrive where you put them? Sun/water/wind/soil conditions, spacing, and pests determine plants' success.
o How do you make it beautiful year-round? Basic visual design principles to ponder include harmony and contrast, balance and scale, color schemes, designing with form and foliage, shock value, and accessorizing.
Santa Barbara-based Billy Goodnick is an award-winning landscape architect, columnist and blogger at Fine Gardening Magazine, college instructor, and co-host of Garden Wise Guys, a comedic sustainable landscaping TV show in Southern California. This workshop will be entertaining and super-useful!
We ask that you RSVP so that we can gauge how many people will be coming - but there is no assigned seating and the event is open to anyone in case you decide at the last minute. Best to arrive by 10:30AM to find a chair and have time to buy a cup of coffee.
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On Saturday and Sunday, July 2 & 3, before our one-day closure on July 4th, we'll have a few things on sale for your long-weekend gardening pleasure.
Fermob clearance sale
We're putting shopworn and discontinued Fermob furniture on sale at 40% off!
Select plants 30% off
We're also featuring a few selections of the plants we grow ourselves at 30% off. See our recent newsletter for some plant examples.
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Sunday, June 26, 2011: 11am - 1pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free)
Dahlias are a real favorite of ours. They provide a vibrant splash of color from middle to late summer, taking over from the spring blooms. We love to mix them with succulents, phormiums, and other unusual plants - both in the garden and in floral bouquets. At this event you'll learn all about them from Mike Schelp - the man who grows them for us on his farm in Half Moon Bay. Learn the tricks that will allow you to grow florist quality Dahlias in your own garden.
We ask that you RSVP so that we can gauge how many people will be coming - but there is no assigned seating and the event is open to anyone in case you decide at the last minute. Best to arrive by 10:30AM to find a chair and have time to buy a cup of coffee. |
Start Homesteading!
Saturday, June 25, 2011: 11am - 12pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free)
Eager to start homesteading in your urban space? Wondering how to fit anything into the small amount of space you have? How to begin?
This experiential talk is an opportunity to learn about the different elements that make up an urban homestead and how to put them together in whatever space you have. This workshop will offer some basics in permaculture design, as well as some common sense how-to projects for the urban homestead. Come with your questions, inspirations and ideas and expect to experiment with a variety of homesteading options to fit your life.
11:00AM-12:00 Rachel Kaplan, co-author of Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living.
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The Birds and The Bees
Saturday, June 25, 2011: 1pm - 2pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free)
1:00-1:30PM Managing Partner of Her Majesty's Secret Beekeeper, Bryon Waibel, and his young assistants, will give a demonstration of urban beekeeping.
1:30-2:00PM Priscilla Morris, also a partner at HMSB, will discuss the joys of keeping chickens.
We ask that you RSVP so that we can gauge how many people will be coming - but there is no assigned seating and the event is open to anyone in case you decide at the last minute. Best to arrive by 10:30AM to find a chair and have time to buy a cup of coffee. |
Saturday, May 21, 2011: 11am - 1pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free)
Join us to learn how to make your own vertical garden. Lots of plants love to grow on steep, vertical surfaces like cliffs and trees. Using vertical-loving plants like succulents, vines, and epiphytes (bromeliads, ferns, and rhipsalis for instance) in Woolly Pockets makes wall gardening super easy and fun. Our friends from Far Out Flora will also show you how easy it is to securely mount epiphytes directly onto vertical surfaces.
Be sure to get here early for your cup of Ritual coffee - the lines get long on Saturday morning and everyone would like to start on time. We open at 9am.
Please RSVP online. |
Sunday, April 24, 2011: 11am - 1pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens (free)
We're welcoming Matt Ritter to talk about stylish new trees for California landscapes. He'll discuss the most beautiful, interesting trees available for your gardens, as well as why it's important to develop a diverse tree canopy for our California cities.
Matt is the author of A Californian's Guide to the Trees Among Us -- which he'll be signing -- and is a professor of botany at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He's also bringing rare trees to discuss and sell!
We're campaigning this year to get you more interesting, beautiful trees for your gardens and Matt's book is a concise, colorful guide to the many lovely, unusual trees we can grow in this state. |
Saturday April 23, 2011: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens. (free)
Join us for a discussion of gorgeous options for reworking your lawn!
One of the rock stars of California gardening, Dave Fross, will share ideas for redesigning and getting more from your lawn area. Dave is the owner of Native Sons Wholesale Nursery and co-author (with Carol Bornstein and Bart O'Brien) of the new book, Reimagining the California Lawn. Dave grows some of your favorite plants here at the nursery and we'll also have plenty of books on hand for you to take home.
We often ask customers, is your lawn worth the input of water, fertilizer, and effort? Does it bring you the pleasure equal to the toll it takes on resources and your time? Usually the answer is "no," and the alternatives are far more beautiful. |
A Q&A with Stephen Orr and Flora Grubb, Sunday April 17, 2011: 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, at Flora Grubb Gardens. (free)
Our friend Stephen Orr is the gardening editorial director for Martha Stewart Living magazine and author of Tomorrow's Garden - Design and Inspiration for a New Age of Sustainable Gardening.
I'm delighted to take part in an event with Stephen here at the store the Sunday following the Garden Conservatory event. Steven honored me with a story in his book about my own endeavors to keep our business environmentally responsible in an industry which, despite all the plants, is not terribly green. We'll be discussing how to make sound choices while deciding what to plant in your garden. Hope to see you then. -- Flora
Please RSVP.
You can purchase Stephen's book in our Web Shop.
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The Way We Garden NOW - Sustainability, Aesthetics, and Gardens with Integrity
A Garden Conservancy Seminar, Friday April 15, 2011: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, in the Presidio. (fee)
Flora Grubb Gardens is co-sponsoring a Garden Conservancy seminar, The Way We Garden NOW, featuring Stephen Orr and several other notable speakers on April 15, in the Presidio.
You can register for this Garden Conservancy seminar here or by calling 415.441.4300. Note, this event is NOT at our store. |
Join us for our annual customer celebration. Hot drinks and other surprises.
11:00 - 4:00 Hot Spiced Apple Cider (Fri.,Sat.,Sun.)
11:00 Wreath Making -- with a Twist!, (Fri.,Sat.,Sun.: $125 fee and RSVP required)
Susie Nadler and Patrick Lannan will teach participants how to make wreaths with fragrant conifers and local winter garden gems.
2:00 - 4:00 Paintings by Patrick Lannan
Our multi-talented colleague, Patrick, will be showing his paintings here in the store. Come meet the artist and see his beautiful BIRCH series. |
Join us for our annual customer celebration. Hot drinks and other surprises.
11:00 - 4:00 Hot Spiced Apple Cider (Fri.,Sat.,Sun.)
11:00 Kids' Workshop (Fri.& Sat.)
Kids' will be making winter trees with decorations.
Modern Playhouse will provide fun structures for imaginative play.
11:00 Wreath Making -- with a Twist!, (Fri.,Sat.,Sun.: $125 fee and RSVP required)
Susie Nadler and Patrick Lannan will teach participants how to make wreaths with fragrant conifers and local winter garden gems.
2:00 Revolutionary Yardscapes, Book Launch Party
By Matthew Levesque, photographs by Saxon Holt
Reception and book signing
Our friend and Bayview neighbor, Matthew Levesque, is responsible for some of the most exquisite designs with found objects that we've seen. Matthew has created beautiful gardenscapes out of others' discards by tapping into the trash stream the way an artist delves into the unconscious.
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Join us for our annual customer celebration. Hot drinks and other surprises.
11:00 - 4:00 Hot Spiced Apple Cider (Fri.,Sat.,Sun.)
11:00 Kids' Workshop (Fri.& Sat.)
Kids' will be making winter trees with decorations.
Modern Playhouse will provide fun structures for imaginative play.
11:00 Wreath Making -- with a Twist!, (Fri.,Sat.,Sun.: $125 fee and RSVP required)
Susie Nadler and Patrick Lannan will teach participants how to make wreaths with fragrant conifers and local winter garden gems. |
With just a bit of attention (and snooping over the garden fence), you can spy some pretty cool, unusual trees around San Francisco. Join us for a discussion and a slide show of trees we love for San Francisco gardens, parks, and streetscapes.
Friends of the Urban Forest's Doug Wildman and Flora Grubb Gardens' own Jason Dewees will share their enthusiasm for beautiful, rare trees that thrive in San Francisco's unique climate. Fall is the best time to plant trees. Come learn how to use them in your home environment!
Admission: Free |
We're excited to offer an event in collaboration with San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers: "Exotics at Home." Join us for three short talks and demonstrations here at the store about gorgeous, high-impact, low-input garden design.
11AM - Flora Grubb Gardens staff demonstrate how to create a Woolly Pocket cloud forest vertical garden using fog-loving exotics.
12PM - Learn the secrets of how we compose our lovely succulent dish gardens.
1PM - Make your own Aerium. A hands-on demonstration and everything you need to compose a tillandsia micro world (pay for the materials you use).
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Join us to have fun with and learn about building nature into the city!
10:45am Our kids' workshop will be making Halloween masks inspired by bugs and wild habitats with Little Lane Studios' Julie Benjamin. $10 fee covers materials.
11:00am Urban Hedgerow: Artful Ways to Design Habitat and Make Space for the Wild - Flora Grubb Gardens' own Jason Dewees and Lisa Lee Benjamin, principal of Evo Catalyst
11:45am Nature in the City: Linking Forage and Habitat Corridors - Amber Hasselbring, designer, Mission Greenbelt
12:30pm Report from an Urban Beekeeper - Phillip Gerrie
1:15pm Urban Hedgerow: New Perspective on Wildness and the City - Jason Dewees and Lisa Lee Benjamin
1:30pm Q&A and DIY habitat sculptures
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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. |
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 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. |
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 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. |
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. |
| 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." |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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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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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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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. |
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. |
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. |
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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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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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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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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