I'm Happiest Gardening

Get your happy on with a one-year family membership to the California Botanic Garden. Add to your knowledge of sustainable gardening with two excellent books: SoCal Yard Transformation and Wild Suburbia: Learning to Garden with Native Plants.

Then head into your garden wearing a Botanic Garden Cap, carrying a handcrafted tool basket, a sturdy kneeling pad, a set of four quality wooden-handled trowels and hand rake, and a charming “Plant the Seeds” sign.

Back inside, treat yourself to local SoCal wildflower and sage honey. Enjoy six miniature terra cotta pots holding tiny cactus candles. Life is good.

This unique basket includes the following garden treasures:

• California Botanic Garden one-year family membership

For two adults and children or grandchildren 17 and younger. Membership benefits include free admission to the Garden, special entry offers at nearly 300 other botanical gardens and arboreta, and discounts on merchandise, events, and classes at the Grow Native Nursery. It is located in Claremont, CA.

• California Botanic Garden cap
   
• California Botanic Garden Coaster by Claremont’s Howling Coyote Studios
   
• Six (6) Tea Light Succulent Candles, 1¼” tall, in 1½” ceramic-like pot holders. From a distance, these novel candles look like cute mini-cacti.
   
• SoCal Yard Transformation -  a step-by-step guide to get the yard you want. Pam Pavela, editor (Western Municipal Water District, 2017). 134 pages

“A comprehensive, simple-to-understand guide to home landscaping in southern California. Sets the record straight on designing a yard with adapted, water-efficient plants. Extensive information with step-by-step photos on planning before you plant. Includes background on water sources for the region.

Explains how to create a sustainable landscape that is in tune with its environment. Detailed irrigation coverage includes how to design, install and maintain an irrigation system that is correct for your yard. A part details how much water different plant types need to grow successfully. Discusses California native plants and how to grow them successfully.

Written for residents who have a yard in the Santa Ana Watershed of Southern California, although the basic principles will apply to most landscapes anywhere.”

• Wild Suburbia: Learning to Garden with Native Plants, by Barbara Eisenstein (Heyday, 2016)

“Wild Suburbia guides us through the process of transforming a traditional, high water-use yard into a peaceful habitat garden abounding in native plants. The author emphasizes that gardening is a rewarding activity rather than a finished product.

For plant lovers curious about their own ecosystems, Wild Suburbia offers a style of gardening that nurtures biodiversity, deepens connections to place, and encourages new and seasoned gardeners alike to experiment and have fun.”

• Project Source Kneeling Pad, 16 ¾ x 11 x 1.”

Considered Earth Edge’s “flagship” product, NBR kneeling pads are bigger, offering ultimate comfort! Made in the U.S.

• Four sturdy, serious, and beautiful Metal Gardening Tools with wood handles.
   
• Handcrafted Gardening Tool Basket

Made of natural materials and handmade in Vietnam. For indoor or outdoor use and water resistant.

• Pacifica Pure Virgin Coastal Wildflower Honey 

Raw, unfiltered, Southern California Coastal Wildflower Honey. Coastal wildflower is the delicious result of nectars gathered in the spring from various flowers blooming along the California Coast. Pure virgin. Cold packed—16 oz. 

• Pacifica Pure Virgin Sage Honey 

“... is light, delicate honey with an elegant floral aftertaste, produced from the black sage plant blooming in early spring on the mountain slopes of CA.” Natural Grade A. 12 oz.

• Hanging 10” wide Plant the Seed Sign.

Beautifully gift-wrapped!

California Botanic Garden is the largest garden in the world devoted to California native plants.

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