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Join us at the San Diego County Fair Flower and Garden Show Stage to honor our 2013 Horticulturist of the Year, Brad Monroe. Brad was the creator and former program coordinator of the Ornamental Horticulture program at Cuyamaca College.
Newsletter article about Brad - Horticulturist of the Year
Our own garden exhibit, created by landscape architect Marty Schmidt (Environs Landscape Architecture), plus all of the other garden show exhibits will be open for viewing on this day when the Fair is closed to the public.
Our exhibit at the San Diego County Fair is sponsored by the:
Members free
Guests $15
Parking free
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Located on a hillside just west of Kit Carson Park off Bear Valley Road, this house has ½ acre of varied plantings.
The front is planted in succulents, palms, and trees with many varieties of aeoniums, euphorbias, dudleyas, aloes (including Goliath and Hercules), agaves, coprosma, salvias (far from the aloes), agonis, arbutus, kalanchoe, vitex, vriesea, and many cacti in pots and in ground. The pool area has a area with an underwater theme, a raised area with cycads, Bismarckia palm, Birds of Paradise, bromeliads, aloes, and aeoniums and a shaded area with hydrangas, camelias, and other shade loving plants. A rose garden accents the outdoor living space and down the slope are vegetable gardens, citrus, avocados, and native plants along with bamboo and flowering trees.
Members free
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