Highlights:
- Holidays are highly popular when the creative staff goes all out with unusual décor. Halloween is a big hit with all sorts of scary amusements that head designer Eric Cortina layers on with skeletons and spider webs.
- For serious gardeners, Roger’s Gardens’ weekend seminar series are well attended with talks about gardening, food and design from experts such as Cristin Fusano, Steve Goto, Pat Welch, Jamie Durie and others.
- Experts are always on hand to help out gardeners. “Our rosarian is Laure Chaffin, a renowned rose breeder, and our bulb expert is Steve Hampson, the regional vice president of the American Daffodil Society,” general manager Ron Vanderhoff said.
Claim to fame: Roger’s Gardens is a garden center first and tourist destination second. Gardeners from all over the region, plus tour buses galore, stop in and see what Roger’s Gardens, located on seven acres, has in store at its gift shops, fresh floral bars, furniture levels and garden center. Roger’s went organic in 2007 and launched a California Friendly Landscapes program to promote and encourage homeowners to garden sustainably. “We are unique in our natural and organic approach and you won’t find that at other large nurseries,” Vanderhoff said. More, Rogers Gardens has led by example. It reduced its electricity consumption by 35 percent by installing fuel cells, eliminated runoff with smart-watering technology and relandscaped the grounds with low-water plants.
Did you know? Roger’s Gardens has food trucks on weekends serving fare from Lobsta, SoHo Taco, KogiBBQ, SeaBirds, The LimeTruck and more.
, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
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