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  • From: growyourown@earthlink.net
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Bay area orchards
  • Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:19:09 -0800 (GMT-08:00)

Spidra,
   Thanks for all the info. We have hit a few of the botanical gardens. We are actually staying in Saratoga just minutes away from Hakone. The garden as a whole didnt blow me away but some of the plant material did.Very old and establish specimens. Filoli is closed to visitors until sometime in feb. We are going to call. My freind from NM who we have met up with is wanting to get some various scion wood while here.
   In general I am always impressed when I come to this area. You can have Citrus and plums and apples.... all growing in the same area. Plus it seems like the easiest place to eat locally year round.Even an average farmers market would thrill most mid-westerners. You have everything  here including several million people too many. Fun to visit.

Thanks again
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Spidra Webster
Sent: Jan 24, 2010 2:56 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Bay area orchards

When I made up this list I considered adding Filoli because I knew CRFG member Todd Kennedy was on the board and consulted about fruit for them. Yet when I went to their site, I saw no real mention of the fruit. However, I have since found out they have 600 apple varieties as well as significant berry holdings so I think you'd have to add Filoli to this list.

http://www.filoli.org/

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On Jan 16, 2010, at 7:57 PM, Spidra Webster wrote:

I've only personally gone to some of these places but they are all places I *would* go.

Both UC Berkeley's Botanical Garden and the SF Botanical Garden are good although I personally have a preference for Berkeley's. The advantage of visiting SF's is that it's in Golden Gate Park so you can do the other things that are in the park like the Japanese Tea Garden and the Conservatory of Flowers (which is not just flowers...you can see tropicals like cacao). http://botanicalgarden.berkeley.edu/ http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/ http://www.conservatoryofflowers.org/

A major source of scionwood for all the Bay Area CRFG chapters' scion exchanges is Prusch Park http://www.pruschfarmpark.org/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Prusch_Farm_Park


Heirloom apple orchards within Garin Park in Hayward, CA http://www.ebparks.org/parks/garin


Ardenwood Historic Farm  in Fremont, CA http://www.ebparks.org/parks/ardenwood

Hakone Gardens: http://www.hakone.com/

Nurseries:

Berkeley Horticultural Nursery - Very good all-around nursery with decent fruit selection as well as CA natives, alpines, water plants, etc. Prettily presented.

Regan Nursery (in Fremont, CA) - Though known for their roses, they also have a good selection of fruit trees. I've gone down there to get things Berkeley Hort didn't have like mulberry, jujube  http://www.regannursery.com/


On Jan 16, 2010, at 1:12 PM, mark wessel wrote:

  I am looking for a little help. Does anyone know of any bay area orchards, botanical gardens, nurseries.... that are must sees. I will be in the area for 10 days soon. I will most likely be radiating out from the city quite  a ways so anything in the general area would be helpful.

Thanks   Mark



Megan Lynch

Berkeley, CA

CRFG, NAFEX: I'm in USDA Zone 9b

http://meganlynch.bandcamp.com



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