A guide to winter garden events along the Peninsula | News
‘Preventing Pest Issues at Seeding’
March 16, noon to 1 p.m. Free. Registration essential. For extra details, stop by mgsantaclara.ucanr.edu.
Lauren Fordyce, urban and community Detect & Control Pests educator with the Statewide UC IPM System, will chat about how to reduce and deal with pest problems, like damping off and fungus gnats, at the time of seeding new vegetation all through this Zoom presentation.
In-person courses & gatherings
‘Gardening Notebooks with Publications Arts Roadshow’
March 4, 10-11 a.m. Gamble Backyard garden, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto Users, $44 (grown ups)/ nonmembers $55 (grown ups). For more facts, check out gamblegarden.org.
Be a part of instructors from Reserve Arts Roadshow to welcome spring by making and decorating your possess established of 4 pocket-sized Gardening Notebooks with pockets for holding dried blossoms, leaves and seed packets. Participants will go away this workshop with gardening notebooks to use for writing their back garden observations or sketching their garden inspirations. All materials provided, furthermore a handmade linen pouch to shop back garden journals and a starter packet of flower seeds.
Yard & character tours
‘Morning Meander: Up for the Flowers’
Feb. 22, 9 a.m. to noon Pulgas Ridge Preserve, Redwood City Free of charge. Reservations expected. For extra facts, take a look at openspace.org.
Join Docent Naturalists Laura Levin, Emma Finter and Marie-Anne Neimat for a wildflower treasure hunt. This preserve is acknowledged for its prosperous show of wildflowers. Climbing at a leisurely pace together the Cordilleras, Polly Geraci, Dick Bishop and Blue Oak trails, participants can look for for early spring blooms and other points of desire with regular stops to share discoveries.
Filoli’s ‘Bring the Back garden Indoors’
Now-Nov. 6, each day, hours fluctuate by period Filoli, 86 Cañada Highway, Woodside $23-$33 For a lot more info, go to filoli.org.
Admission to Filoli includes a totally free, 15-moment chat, about how the Bourn and Roth family members, who the moment owned the home, blurred the strains concerning indoors and outside by the house’s architecture, ornamental mezzotint prints and floral arrangements. People can wander with staff members and understand how the garden’s structure relates to the inside spaces. As you take a look at the household accented with colourful plants and bouquets, expertise in their possess text how Filoli’s past people brought the yard indoors through floral abundance and botanical decor. No reservations required for discuss. Subjects fluctuate by working day and year.
Come across far more stories like this in the spring 2023 difficulty of House & Backyard Style.