Golden Gate Garden

Wednesday will be garden tip day from now on. Today, however, is the first day of the rest of my blog, and so my first topic is the blog itself.

     Monday will be gardening news, Wednesday, a gardening tip or idea, Friday, a link to some useful information. Plus, count on plenty of talk about all kinds of topics you care about if you are a Northern California gardener (or one in a similar climate), including the weather, the plants, the bugs, and the bigger issues that affect or concern gardeners. I will also keep you posted about lectures I will be giving, and other selected events of interest to gardeners.

     On this Sunday, March 5th, I will be speaking at Gamble Garden Center, at 1431 Waverly Street in Palo Alto, about the plants in my most recent book, Wildly Successful Plants: Northern California. The talk and slide show will be from 2 to 4 p.m. I will answer questions and sign books after the talk. You can learn learn more about the talk and Gamble Garden Center at http://www.gamblegarden.org.

     March is the month of the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show. I will be attending the opening gala, the press reception, walking the show, and will be speaking there on Friday, March 17th at 6:30. (If you are there on Friday, stop by and say hello after the talk.) I’ll report on it all. (You can link to the show at http://www.gardenshow.com, and learn more about the complete schedule.) My lecture will be about Mediterranean Climate Food Gardening, how to take full advantage of our mediterranean climate to have a year round harvest of garden delicacies.

     In my garden: My first Pacific Coast hybrid iris of the season opened this week, a blue one, and a hard rain is falling on it tonight. In the food garden, ‘Sugar Sprint’ peas are just breaking through.