| Tom Karwin, On Gardening: Conservancy offers tours of gardens A vid gardeners have a small number of valuable champions. Admission to the gardens is free, but visits involve a private ferry that does charge for its services. Open Days Program: The Garden Conservancy also facilitates access to many additional private gardens, which are selected by the Conservancy for inclusion in its Open Days program. Visitors are welcome at any time within the announced schedule; admission $5 per garden. The Conservancy provides the Open Days Directory, a national publication that lists Open Days and participating gardens with garden descriptions, open hours and directions. The Conservancy conducts two primary programs, as follows: Garden Preservation Program: Here, the Conservancy identifies exceptional gardens and works to help them survive and prosper. 1908) who continues her interest in the garden. The Conservancy has continuing relationship with 16 gardens in the United States, of which two are in Northern California. The other Preservation Program in California is the Gardens of Alcatraz, in San Francisco Bay. The organization groups gardens in clusters within a given area, for the convenience of visitors. The garden is managed by a nonprofit organization, which maintains a regular schedule of days for public visits. One of these is the Ruth Bancroft Garden in Walnut Creek, which is in fact the first garden of the Conservancy's Preservation Program. These two gardens are interesting and memorable destinations for daytrips by Monterey Bay area gardeners. This weekend, for example, includes Open Days on Saturday for a cluster of four gardens in the San Francisco Peninsula area (Atherton, Palo Alto, Portola Valley), and on Sunday for a cluster of gardens in the Telegraph Hill area of San Francisco. Tom Karwin, On Gardening: Conservancy offers tours of gardens |
Sunday, 3 June 2012
Tom Karwin, On Gardening: Conservancy offers tours of gardens
