Docents Audrey and Bob will lead an informational tour through the gardens located in Balboa Park in San Diego.  
The tour will include all the wonders and principles that go into creating a traditional Japanese garden.  
These knowledgeable docents will begin the tour in the lovely upper garden, covering our prized koi pond 
and manicured plants the gardeners and volunteers spend hours perfecting.  
Eventually, you will be guided down to our lower garden.
This is a magical area plentiful in flowers, waterfalls and more koi.  
The tour will include the first blossoms as we head into our Cherry Blossom Season.  
We will finish the tour with a live Q/A, where you will be able to interact and ask Audrey and Bob questions about the garden.

Trips and Tours

No Trips are planned for this month.

See the Trips & Tours page for a suggestion for your own trip to
Santa Rosa Plateau.

Cookbooks are for sale.

Recipes provided by TVGC members.

This loose leaf bound book contains a collection of “tried and true” recipes 

first compiled in 2006. They range from appetizers, beverages, 

soups, salads, sides, main dishes, desserts, cookies and candy. 

Plus the book cleverly incorporates a handy cook

book stand stored inside on the binder rings.

Members can purchase cookbooks from Carol Guerard.

Cookbooks are for sale to the public in Old Town Temecula at
Temecula Olive Oil Company, 28653 Old Town Front Street.

If you wish to join TVGC, go to the Membership page and download the application form.

Since we can't get together in person for group gatherings, here is an alternate activity:

Online Native Plant Garden Tour which took place in the LA area on March 28 & 29, 2020.

Click on the link below and then click on links of the tour:

https://www.youtube.com/theodorepayne 

For those of you interested in Floral arrangements:

    

The San Diego Museum of Art’s Art Alive 2020 VIRTUAL Art Alive 2020 welcomed the creative “floral” designs
from their official designers using flowers and items from homes with a “Bloom Bash”
 -an online exhibition of works from the museum collection and then interpreted by designers using items from their homes and exhibited side by side –

https://www.sdmart.org/floral-interpretations-first-floor-galleries-1-15/

https://www.sdmart.org/floral-interpretations-second-floor-galleries-16-20/

The Orange County Rose Society has been busy at the Pat Nixon Rose Garden at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda:

 https://www.facebook.com/219437734883200/posts/1660952210731738/?sfnsn=mo 

and you can see the gardens on their Facebook page and a short narrated tour of the garden is here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTZ4o-nHcCQ&fbclid=IwAR0THGdgVMAScqCpZf3b4VEP2Da6_A0kBJPNPQLAC_Cm80jrCOI35Zd4tIs

 The Chelsea Flower Show has ended but they still have lots of videos saved on their site
and this short video on flower pressing will take you there: 

https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/virtual-chelsea/tuesday/jamjar-flowers

"I would like to suggest than in addition to actually physically planting, pruning, mulching, and harvesting
in your garden, that this might be a good time to learn more gardening tips, tricks, and techniques.
I start most days with some stretches and exercises and while doing that, I watch You Tube videos.
I am learning a lot.  There are videos on any topic you can think of, so why not take advantage."
~ Pat Boyd

        

The first of TVGC’s Gardening Booklets is available for sale for $5 each. 

The booklet lists trees that grow readily in the Temecula Valley, along with beautiful color photos,
and much information about each species and a location where you can see a real tree of each variety. 

The second booklet on Shrubs for our area is available for $6 each.

These beautiful booklets make great gifts.