Looking for a nice garden to study in the Bay Area. (Perfer East Bay) Botanical

[teddyca]

Looking to try and kill two birds with one stone. I really want to make the Hooters meet on sunday, but the wife needs to complete a study on a Botanical Garden. We have yet to take the Z on a nice cruise and figured this was my chance. Since Hooters in in Dublin something remotely close would be great. After reading my wifes agenda it looks like we need a Botanical Garden of sorts. Thanks guys. P.S Gilroy Gardens is out I hate that place and it is way to fair. The teacher recommended places like Standford University...

[GreekPT]

There is a fine, widely varied selection of WEEDS in my botanical back yard 'garden'. Want to get a quick workout in? There's a couple huge tractor tires to flip/toss around. Want to wrench a bit? Get my ice cream truck...yes..u read it right....running again. ; )

Or u can pick up the cig butts Arnel and Jerome left. j/k !! ^5

http://www.hakone.com/visit/information.html

That's on Hwy 9 so you can kill 2 birds w/1 Vette right there.

~Phil

[Caboboy]

Here ya go, this one is awesome!

http://www.jgarden.org/gardens.asp?TAB=info&ID=267

[GTLYKME]

Originally Posted by Caboboy

Here ya go, this one is awesome!

http://www.jgarden.org/gardens.asp?TAB=info&ID=267

I was about to suggest the same place. Really nice and quiet, and its FREE!

[qnitro]

Looking to check out some bushes... Go to the hustler club

[Inky Pinky]

Originally Posted by qnitro

Looking to check out some bushes... Go to the hustler club

[MEANZ06]

Originally Posted by qnitro

Looking to check out some bushes... Go to the hustler club

[1998 GTR]

There's also the Ruth Bancroft Gardens in Concord.

http://www.ruthbancroftgarden.org/

My wife's a Landscape Designer and, as she puts it, she is "Horticulturally Obsessed", and is also something of a rare plant collector. She also volunteers with a few garden organizations in puting together garden tours. She has one coming up soon that will include a couple of very well-known metal artists' shops (Mark Bullwinkle and Bruce Beasley) who specialize in garden art. These guys NEVER open their shops to the public, so this is a rare opportunity. I may go on the garden tour just to check out the metal shops. I think this one is a fundraiser for an organization called "OBUGS" (Oakland Based Urban Gardens). She is also very active with a group called the "Horti-Sexuals". Cec (my wife) would also probably be the best source for info on Bay Area gardens, both public and private.

If you"re wife's intersted, PM me and I can pass on Cec's contact info.

Dave

[Robert@Advanced Dyno]

I heard vic has a garden in his basement... botanical, yeah thats what it is

[inoyourtrippn]

Originally Posted by Robert@Advanced Dyno

I heard vic has a garden in his basement... botanical, yeah thats what it is

[teddyca]

Originally Posted by qnitro

Looking to check out some bushes... Go to the hustler club

You need to get out of the closet and realize if it has a "bush" it is not cared properly and I want nothing to do with it.

On a serious note Dave and everyone else thanks a bunch for the leads. The Concord gardens might be my best bet. I am going to look into it now. If open on Sunday we can stop in and my wife can do her homework, afterwards I can meet you clowns at Hooters and do homework of my own.

[folsomlarry]

Here is one more in Tilden Park in the Eastbay. I remember my wife used to go there when we lived in El Sobrante.

http://www.nativeplants.org/about.html

Larry

[teddyca]

Damn Ruth Bancroft Gardens was perfect and are closed on sunday . I am trying to stay away from san Jose area and Oakland area. I do not feel like traveling all that way for some plants. HAHA Concord, Dublin, Walnut Creek are all right there.

[GreekPT]

Priorities mang...you're traveling for Hwy 9, Skyline, Hwy 84, Pesadereo Road, even a little jaunt to Big Basin.....on another KILLER road..and it just so happens the gardens are nearby.