Visitors face new fee to see SF Botanical Garden

For tourists, enjoyment of San Francisco’s beloved Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park will come at a cost. As the Recreation and Park Department struggles financially, it’s banking on a nonresident fee for entry to the Botanical Garden to help out with its bottom line. The cost to enter the garden…

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Franklin Co. Couple Encourage Others to Garden to Survive Oil Spill Disaster

A couple living in Eastpoint has planted more than just a garden: it helps put food on the table. They’re hoping other folks in the area follow the trend in wake of the oil spill threatening their livelihood.

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Seymour Main Street Lawn, Garden and Patio Show Set for Saturday

The Seymour Main Street Lawn, Garden and Patio Show is being held Saturday at the Robertson Feed Mil Parking Lot in the 100 block of South Walnut Street in downtown Seymour. All types of lawn, patio, porch, personal, home and garden supplies will be…

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S.F. sculpture garden wins design award

Buildings in Florida and New York shared the top honors for architecture with a San Francisco sculpture garden in the 2010 Design Awards presented by the San Francisco chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Honor awards also went to projects as…

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SF Garden Show celebrates green living (KGO-TV Bay Area)

The 25th annual San Francisco Flower and Garden Show is filled with hundreds of green living ideas.

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Worries of 2009 fade as new team takes over Flower & Garden Show (Inside Bay Area)

Last year at this time, the fate of the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show was in a bit of flux.The show had moved from its 12-year home at the cavernous Cow Palace in Daly City to the San Mateo Event Center.

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Old SF Freeway Site Becomes Urban Garden (CBS 5 Bay Area)

Amid the urban jungle that is San Francisco sits an oasis of green. Under eucalyptus trees and where old highway on and off ramps once stood, community organizers are building on a vision, an urban garden they call the Hayes Valley Farm.

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Valley Oak Garden Club sponsors trip to San Francisco Flower and Garden Show (Visalia Times-Delta / Tulare Advance-Register)

The Valley Oak Garden Club is sponsoring a bus trip to the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show at the San Mateo Event Center on March 25.

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Garden-inspired gifts (San Francisco Chronicle)

It might sound cliche but sometimes the best gifts are those that give back either in the form of a donation or a plant that will reproduce and feed or shelter someone else. Share your successes in the garden with others this holiday season by creating gift…

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Children’s garden takes root at S.F. library (San Francisco Chronicle)

As a rule, libraries don’t mix with muddy little hands. But that’s what’s happening at the San Francisco Public Library’s Mission Branch, where a Teaching Garden opened this fall. With the help of a designer and a gardening instructor, interim Children’s Room…

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