SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2013 — /PRNewswire/ — The 28^th Annual San Francisco Flower Garden Show dramatically ushers in Spring with a spectacular new show featuring unique and beautiful display gardens created by top West Coast garden designers inspired by this year’s international “Gardens Make the World Go Round” theme. It’s held over five days, Wednesday through Sunday, March 20-24, 2013 at the San Mateo Event Center. Tickets are available at www.sfgardenshow.com and it’s free for kids 16 under.

New gardens this year show a great diversity in design approach, green materials and bold styling.

The Globe- “A World of Succulent Gardens”: Succulent Gardens, comprises the world’s largest living, rotating succulent Globe with succulents depicting the seas and continents.

China- “Harmonious Visions”: Academy of Art University illustrates powerful use of simple elements of nature to create a place of serenity and contemplation.

England- “Wanted Weeds”: Urban Hedgerow inspires conversation about European weed “invaders” with their true virtue being host plants nectar sources.

Wonderland- “The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday”: Arterra Landscape Architects features all that a garden can be– fun, colorful and creative.

Mexico- “Inside Out”: Arizona State University uses inspiration from urban Mexican culture, combining elements that differ in size and function.

Hawaii- Cummings Masonry Landscape uses cliff rock and resort-style water use in their outdoor living design.

Thailand- Bay Maples garden uses recirculating aquaponic vegetable beds, with salvaged and re-purposed materials.

Babylon and Assyria- “Ancient Gardens” :SF Flower Garden Show, Quality First Construction, Cummings Masonry, Golden Gate Palms, Vecchio Olives, Pacific Nurseries, French’s Waterscapes, and Zeterre– An interpretation of the historical Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

United States- “California Dreaming Green”: Gibeaus Gardens features color and form ensuring a haven for birds, bees and butterflies.

The Island of Flores- “Aqua Vita”: Goulart Designs focuses on the healing waters of the Azores, with natural water features, boulder seats and natural stone pathways.

The Netherlands- “Tectonic Rift—Pangea Future”: The Groundworks Office symbolizing the ephemeral quality of landscape and delicate plantings.

China- “Harmonious Visions”: UC Berkeley-The school of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning design is their riff on a Chinese garden.

The Philippines: Landscape Restoration by Dan Pozzi shows a tropical paradise with simple elements easily incorporated in any yard.

Ireland- “Glade”: Mariposa Gardening Design and Greenlee Associates features dry-laid leaning flagstone walls and conifer trees evoking the mystery of a meadow glade.

Iceland- “The Hidden People”: McKenna Landscape amplifies the people of Icelandic folklore utilizing natural landforms suitable for outdoor dining and play space.

South Africa- “Djuma Safari Lodge”: Outdoor Environments creates a lodge lying in the heart of the veldt, the great grasslands flowing through Africa.

Italy-“Bel Giardino, Alfresco”: Seville Landscape–reminiscent of an ancient Roman-style pleasure garden including courtyard and kitchen.

Australia-Envision Landscape Studio—A garden of Mediterranean-climate plants suitable for growing in the Bay Area.

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Inside the grotto, Trapp placed coral, seashells, and even bones into the crevices of the stone walls.

From the outside, a toolshed turned library is alluring in its humbleness. A pair of 19th-century Italian putti, found at a market outside of Paris and damaged during shipment, charms the pediment.

Inside, the library glows; its weathered and dusty terra cotta pots, faded tomes, glass terrariums, books, bones, and old bird’s nests are Trapp’s enchanting keepsakes.

Moss grows in the cracks of the cobblestone patio, where vintage elements combine to make a table. A concrete banister, architectural salvage from Trapp’s trove, frames the space.

Topiary and potted grasses line the lichen covered concrete bannisters found around the property.

A bubbling fountain between tall juniper trees is a lively introduction to the garden and shop.

Inside the grotto, Trapp placed coral, seashells, and even bones into the crevices of the stone walls.

From the outside, a toolshed turned library is alluring in its humbleness. A pair of 19th-century Italian putti, found at a market outside of Paris and damaged during shipment, charms the pediment.

Inside, the library glows; its weathered and dusty terra cotta pots, faded tomes, glass terrariums, books, bones, and old bird’s nests are Trapp’s enchanting keepsakes.

Moss grows in the cracks of the cobblestone patio, where vintage elements combine to make a table. A concrete banister, architectural salvage from Trapp’s trove, frames the space.

Topiary and potted grasses line the lichen covered concrete bannisters found around the property.

A bubbling fountain between tall juniper trees is a lively introduction to the garden and shop.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The 28^th Annual San Francisco Flower Garden Show dramatically ushers in Spring with a spectacular new show featuring unique and beautiful display gardens created by top West Coast garden designers inspired by this year’s international “Gardens Make the World Go Round” theme. It’s held over five days, Wednesday through Sunday, March 20-24, 2013 at the San Mateo Event Center. Tickets are available at www.sfgardenshow.com and it’s free for kids 16 under.

New gardens this year show a great diversity in design approach, green materials and bold styling.

The Globe- “A World of Succulent Gardens”: Succulent Gardens, comprises the world’s largest living, rotating succulent Globe with succulents depicting the seas and continents.

China– “Harmonious Visions”: Academy of Art University illustrates powerful use of simple elements of nature to create a place of serenity and contemplation.

England– “Wanted Weeds”: Urban Hedgerow inspires conversation about European weed “invaders” with their true virtue being host plants nectar sources.

Wonderland- “The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday”: Arterra Landscape Architects features all that a garden can be– fun, colorful and creative.

Mexico– “Inside Out”: Arizona State University uses inspiration from urban Mexican culture, combining elements that differ in size and function.

Hawaii- Cummings Masonry Landscape uses cliff rock and resort-style water use in their outdoor living design.

Thailand- Bay Maples garden uses recirculating aquaponic vegetable beds, with salvaged and re-purposed materials.

Babylon and Assyria- “Ancient Gardens” :SF Flower Garden Show,
Quality First Construction, Cummings Masonry, Golden Gate Palms, Vecchio Olives , Pacific Nurseries, French’s Waterscapes, and Zeterre– An interpretation of the historical Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

United States– “California Dreaming Green”: Gibeaus Gardens features color and form ensuring a haven for birds, bees and butterflies.

The Island of Flores- “Aqua Vita”: Goulart Designs focuses on the healing waters of the Azores, with natural water features, boulder seats and natural stone pathways.

The Netherlands– “Tectonic Rift—Pangea Future”: The Groundworks Office symbolizing the ephemeral quality of landscape and delicate plantings.

China– “Harmonious Visions”: UC Berkeley-The school of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning design is their riff on a Chinese garden.

The Philippines: Landscape Restoration by Dan Pozzi shows a tropical paradise with simple elements easily incorporated in any yard.

Ireland– “Glade”: Mariposa Gardening Design and Greenlee Associates features dry-laid leaning flagstone walls and conifer trees evoking the mystery of a meadow glade.

Iceland– “The Hidden People”: McKenna Landscape amplifies the people of Icelandic folklore utilizing natural landforms suitable for outdoor dining and play space.

South Africa– “Djuma Safari Lodge”: Outdoor Environments creates a lodge lying in the heart of the veldt, the great grasslands flowing through Africa.

Italy–“Bel Giardino, Alfresco”: Seville Landscape–reminiscent of an ancient Roman-style pleasure garden including courtyard and kitchen.

Australia-Envision Landscape Studio—A garden of Mediterranean-climate plants suitable for growing in the Bay Area.

Photos: http://sfgardenshow.com/press/press-photos    
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Pat Welsh

By Karen Vander Vorst

Emmy Award winner Pat Welsh, a Del Mar resident for 57 years, will speak on how to “Grow Great Organic Vegetables Year-Round,” at the Del Mar Powerhouse, Monday, March 25, at 9:30 a.m. In her talk, Welsh will explain how to choose, plant, harvest, and grow popular vegetables, and to control pests and diseases without synthetic fertilizers or dangerous pesticides. Her slide presentation will demonstrate growing crops in raised beds or in the ground.  She will fill you with tips, hints, garden timing, new techniques, and old-time secrets culled from a lifetime of growing edible crops.

The public is invited to attend this free presentation sponsored by the Del Mar Garden Club. Following her talk, Welsh will sign and personalize three of her published books.

Born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England, Welsh immigrated to the United States in 1939. Through the war years, her family lived on an organic farm in Bucks County, Penn. This experience and the wonderful gardens of her grandparents in England planted the gardening seeds in Welsh. She earned a B.A. in English Literature at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., where she also studied painting, ceramics and design.

Welsh is the widow of Superior Court Judge Louis M. Welsh. She has two daughters, Francesca Filanc and Wendy Woolf, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. Her home in Del Mar was designed by her father-in-law John Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright.

Welsh’s career highlights include being the first Garden Editor of San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine, from 1979 to 1983; host of the twice-weekly gardening segment, “The Resident Gardener,” on the local evening news of KNSD-TV, from 1981 to 1987; host of videos for Better Homes Gardens, HGTV, and infomercials since 1990. She is currently a public speaker and lecturer on gardening.

Also a lifelong painter and sculptor, in 2002 Welsh designed and built, with Betsy Schulz and 80 volunteers, the 92-foot-long, mixed-media mural in front of the Del Mar Public Library on Old 101 in Del Mar. Out of this tribute to beautiful Del Mar came the inspiration to write “The Magic Mural and How it Got Built: A Fable for All Ages (2005).”

Welsh’s other books include: Pat Welsh’s Southern California Gardening: A Month-By-Month Guide (1991, revised 2001); All My Edens: A Gardener’s Memoir (1996); The American Horticultural Society Southwest Smart Garden™ Regional Guide (2004); and Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening (2010). All these books can be found on Amazon.com.

Recognized for the contributions she has made to the world of gardening and garden design, Welsh has received numerous awards, including: San Diego Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement, Performer/News, 1985; San Diego Press Club Award, 1986; three “Quill and Trowel” Awards from the Garden Writers Association; Cuyamaca College Botanical Society Horticulturist of the Year, 2001; San Diego Botanic Garden Lifetime Achievement Award, 1996; and Honorary San Diego County Master Gardener (2003).

The Del Mar Garden Club invites you to hear Pat Welsh speak on Monday, March 25, at the Del Mar Powerhouse at 9:30 a.m. You can also visit Welsh and join her blog on her website: www.patwelsh.com.

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On Wednesday, March 13, at 1 p.m. in the Wakelin Room of the Wellesley Free Library, Lexington resident and Wellesley College graduate, Maureen Bovet, will be guiding Tau Beta Beta through the public parks of New York City with her collection of beautiful slides and unique view of the green spaces available in the Big Apple.  Included in the presentation, “New York Garden Spaces – Maureen Bovet presents the green side of the Big Apple” are Wave Hill; the garden at the Cloister, Olsmsted-designed Central Park, with its 70-year-old Conservatory Garden; the new High Line Park modeled on a Paris railroad bed reuse; the New York Botanical Garden, and Battery Park at the top of Manhattan looking out at the Statue of Liberty.  She will discuss garden design and plant cultivation along with the fascinating history of these parks.  Maureen has propagated plants for Historic New England, developed the volunteer gardening program at Habitat in Belmont; designed the Memorial Garden at First Parish Church in Lexington, is a Museum Associate at the MFA on the Flower Team and provides practical garden counsel and coaching to her garden design clients.

The program is being presented by Tau Beta Beta, a charitable organization founded more than 100 years ago in Brookline.  Tau Beta Beta’s membership is made up of women from Brookline, Newton, Wellesley and surrounding towns.  Its sole purpose is to raise funds and grant yearly scholarships to worthy young women from Brookline, Newton or Wellesley desiring college or vocational school training.  The organization no longer raises funds through events, but through contributions of its members.  Its social component is maintained through a series of six meetings held September through April, with many of the gatherings being of an educational nature presented by qualified speakers.  Membership is open to any woman within a 25-mile radius of Brookline who wishes to contribute toward the scholarships awarded to deserving young women each year.  For information about membership contact Adele Beggs at 781-237-1497.

The event at the Wellesley Main Library on March 13 is open to the public at no charge.  

 

 

One of the most important garden designers of the 20th century, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was a prolific writer and hugely influential horticulturist.

Landscape historian and author Judith Tankard will explore Jekyll’s gardens and her theories on color, planting, and design with a selection of some of her famous garden commissions at 11:30 a.m., Thursday, March 13 at the Beverly Hills Women’s Club, 1700 Chevy Chase Dr.

Attendees will learn abut Jekyll’s most important collaboration with Sir Edwin Lutyens, spanning more than 40 years and producing landscape masterpieces of the Arts and Crafts movement including: Hestercombe, Folly Farm and Deanery Gardens.

This event is produced by the Royal Oak Foundation and co-sponsored by the Garden Conservancy and the Beverly Hills Women’s Club.

The event begins with an 11 a.m. book signing, followed by the lecture and luncheon at 12:30 p.m.

Tickets are $58 for Royal Oak Foundation, Garden Conservancy, and Beverly Hills Women’s Club members, and $68 for non-members and guests.

Register online on the Royal Oak Foundation’s website, royal-oak.org.

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A garden room created by Lorraine Linkhauer and Nancy Drew is one of five spaces by local American Society of Interior Designers members as part of the ASID Designer Showcase at the 32nd annual Pittsburgh Home and Garden Show at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. More photos at www.post-gazette.com.

This is the show’s last weekend, which features 1,600 exhibits, including “Gettysburg 150” dedicated to the battle’s 150th anniversary this summer. Home show hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

David Fox wants to change the world, one garden at a time.

The gregarious 25-year-old is the executive director of the S.F.-based Amir Project, in which he is trying to do just that.

The project, which Fox founded in 2010, was included in last year’s Slingshot Resource Guide to Jewish Innovation. Fox will be one of the many presenters at the Hazon Jewish Food Festival on March 17.

A longtime camper and camp counselor, Fox started the Amir Project (http://www.amirproject.org) due to his frustration with attempts to teach social justice in the camp setting. He witnessed how campers could spend several hours learning and talking about an issue such as the genocide  in Darfur, but would forget it by the time of the next activity.

“I wanted to create an everyday program that spoke about inequality and all of these problems in the world; I wanted to capitalize on making kids think critically about these issues.”

Unequal access to resources is just one issue that can be taught in the garden, Fox said. Others include world hunger, poverty, stewardship of the Earth and nutrition.

While Fox — whose office is not in the great outdoors, but in the concrete jungle at 144 Second St. in San Francisco — hopes to have anywhere from 15 to 20 Jewish camps participating in the project this summer, his larger goal is for every Jewish camp to eventually have a garden, and then for non-Jewish camps to have them as well.

Fox was still in college while these ideas were taking root, and other than his parents growing a few veggies here or there, he had no gardening experience at all. In fact, he said, “I hated gardening when I was young.”

Fox received a grant to go to Israel but was unclear in his direction. A discussion with a Hillel staffer at Washington University in St. Louis, which he attended, changed everything.

The staffer’s brother, Jakir Manela, was the executive director of Kayam Farm at the Pearlstone Center in Maryland, where he was running a farm in accordance with Jewish tradition. “Go visit my brother,” she told him.

What Fox saw at the farm set his mind in motion. Manela showed him the “Gan Adam,” or “Garden of the Humans,” where, instead of traditional rows, vegetables were planted in the shape of a human being.

Using garden design as a teaching tool, Fox went to Israel and designed a community garden with local youth in Yerucham, in the south. When he came back to the United States, he used his new gardening knowledge to teach natural science in a low-income school in north St. Louis.

“There I could use it to talk about projecting growth and how much the seed costs, versus how much we can sell it for,” he said.

At the Hazon festival, Fox will focus on using garden design as a vehicle for Jewish education. Gardens can be shaped like menorahs, or the State of Israel, or in seven concentric beds, for example. Seven not only is dinnertime, he half-jokingly suggested, but it’s also the number of the shmita  year, the biblical mandate that farmers let their land lie fallow for one year every seven years (the next such period begins Sept. 24, 2014).

“We can teach whatever we want to through the medium of the Earth,” Fox said.

“Red with Dragonflies,” a print from Danish painter Henrik Simonsen. His work will be among pieces exhibited at the Afforable Art Fair in New York April 4 – 7.

Home improvement plans this spring? A variety of upcoming events in New Jersey and New York can help, offering access to design ideas, expert advice and a variety of home and garden goods in one place.

In the ever-changing home design landscape, it can be difficult to keep up with all the options all the time. There is help, however, at home shows and other design-friendly events that bring together numerous experts, contractors and manufacturers.

Attending one can simplify the process of learning as much as possible about what’s available before your project starts. At events in the following list, visitors can find a variety of solutions — from making the most of space in a tiny first apartment to outfitting a grand home that requires exclusive, upscale furnishings.

The learning opportunities range from nuts-and-bolts chats with contractors at the New Jersey Home Show to zany fun and design advice at Ikea’s Bring Your Own Friends Day, to the design seminars with the showcase of fine home fashions and fixtures at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show. There also will be opportunities to learn more about antiques and their value at the Pier Antiques Show, and on selecting and displaying contemporary art at the Affordable Art Fair.

Author Joey Green, shaving with peanut butter.

• New Jersey Home Show and Interior Design Expo: Tomorrow through Sunday at the New Jersey Convention Center, 97 Sunfield Ave, Edison. More than 300 home improvement professionals will be exhibiting at this PSEG-sponsored show that promises access to the latest design trends, home remodeling ideas and energy efficiency solutions. Author Joey Green, known for his wacky ways with foods and common household products, will demonstrate his techniques each day. A few of them: using Coca-Cola to clean your toilet, polishing furniture with Spam, cleaning diamond rings with Efferdent and starting a campfire with Doritos. Show hours are 3 to 9 p.m Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m Sunday. $10 (free for children younger than 16); visit HomeShowExpo.com.

• Bring Your Own Friends Day: Saturday at Ikea stores in Elizabeth (1000 Center Drive) and Paramus (100 Ikea Drive). Home design advice will be available from staffers and in seminars. Those who pre-register on Facebook get a coupon for a free Ikea shopping bag and free breakfast before 11 a.m. Tweet a picture of yourself pretending to cook in a store kitchen display, or doing something else from the Twitter Photo Scavenger Hunt list, and be entered to win a $100 Ikea gift card. There will be giveaways and food samples throughout the day. Visit TheLifeImprovementProject.com/byof.

Bosai will be demonstrated and exhibited at Springfest.

• Springfest Garden Show: March 14 through 17 at Sussex County Fairgrounds, 37 Plains Road, Augusta. If you’ve ever wished for a home office but don’t have the room, a backyard shed just might be the answer. One of the features of this show will be a display of three sheds turned into living spaces: the previously mentioned home office, a space to share with a pet, and a man’s space. The living garden exhibits, housed in a custom-built glass conservatory with 34-foot mahogany beams, also will feature a bonsai demonstration. Along with the garden ideas and goods, speakers will include Margaret Roach, garden writer and formerly editorial director and garden editor for Martha Stewart Living. Other show topics will address preserving garden edibles. Kid’s Zone activities will get youngsters excited about plants. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. $12 ($9 for seniors, free for those younger than 12); visit SpringFestGardenShow.org or call (973) 948-9448.

Cari Cucksey, host of the HGTV show “CashCari”

• Pier Antiques Show: March 16 and 17 at Manhattan’s Pier 94, 711 Twelfth Ave. (at 55th Street), New York. Cari Cucksey of the HGTV show “CashCari” will appear both days, sharing tips to repurpose old and found objects. Shoppers at this 500-exhibit show of furniture, fine and folk art, silver, ceramics, textiles and more also can have pieces evaluated for $5 each by “Antiques Roadshow” appraisers Gary Sohmers and Gordon Converse. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m both days. $15 (free for those younger than 16 with an adult, free for college students on March 17). Visit StellaShows.com.

• The Architectural Digest Home Design Show: open to the public March 22 to 24 at Pier 94, 711 Twelfth Ave. (at 55th Street) New York, bills itself as “a showcase of the best new ideas in the home design and luxury market.”

The Grigio chair by Wild Chairy has a sexy lace-up back. The Haddonfield company recycles classic chairs with updated designs, creating one-of-a-kind pieces. Wild Chairy will be among exhibitors at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show. This year, more than 500 premium brands will be showing kitchen and bath products, indoor and outdoor furnishings, flooring, lighting, decorative accessories and more. The show’s MADE area will offer locally produced, limited-edition and one-of-a-kind fine art, furniture, photography and lighting. In addition to the expansive display area, the show is known for its seminars led by top design professionals. Sessions will explore kitchen design, decorating with color and texture, working with art and other design topics. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 22 and 23, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. March 24. $30 in advance online (includes an Architectural Digest magazine subscription), $35 at the door (children younger than 12 admitted free with adult). Visit ArchDigestHomeShow.com for information about the $95 March 21 show preview.

• Affordable Art Fair: April 4 through 7 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St. (between Sixth and Seventh avenues) in Manhattan. Original art can be a great way to freshen things up and this collector’s fair will showcase 84 galleries on two floors. At least half of the pieces will be priced under $5,000. The traveling contemporary art show visits 16 cities internationally this year. The New York stop includes original paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs, with prices ranging from $100 to $10,000. Show curators buy with an eye for the seasoned collector, as well as first-time buyers. Show hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. April 4 to 6, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 7. $15 ($10 for students and seniors, children younger than 12 admitted free with an adult). Visit AffordableArtFair.com/newyork for information about the $65 private preview party on April 3.

Kimberly L. Jackson may be reached by e-mail.