The 2008 Spring in Guadalupe Gardens was a brilliant success.  Thousands of people filled Guadalupe Gardens to purchase roses, vegetable and decorative plants, get garden advice, listen to live music, and enjoy great food.  Plenty of children's activities delighted young families as they educated as well as entertained.  The Heritage Rose Garden was in full bloom and did not dissapoint.

Next year's event will be held Saturday April 25, 2009, mark your calendars!

Please see below to what all the fuss was about!

 


Free parking along surface streets, click here for map!

40+ vendors selling plants, garden art, etc.
How to Grow Better Tomatoes Talk
Family Fitness Walk
Food and Entertainment
Heritage Rose Garden in Full-Bloom
Compost Bin Sale & Free Compost
Worm Composting Class

Alternative Energy
Bay Area Garden Railway Society
Just added! -- Free E-Waste Drop Off!

 


 

Expert Garden Advice

  • Tony Tomeo, Silicon Valley Community Newspapers Garden Columnist

  • Tom Liggett, local nurseryman

 


 

Entertainment

  • Bounce Houses, All Day

  • Mission Gold Jazz Band, :  10AM – 12PM

  • El Grito de la Cultura, Academy of Mexican Folk Culture, Director - Elena E. Robles: 12PM - 12:30PM.

  • How to Grow Better Tomatoes, Cynthia Sandberg, owner of Love Apple Farm: 12:30 - 1:30 PM

  • Line Dance Instruction 1:30AM – 3PM

  • Approach Zone Drifters, Bluegrass music, 12-3PM

 


 

Fitness

10:00 AM, Fitness Walk - Start the morning out on the right foot with a gentle walk along the Guadalupe river. Walking and safe stretching technique will be introduced. All ages welcome. The walk will end at the Heritage Rose Garden which will be blooming!  All participants will receive a free GRPG backpack!

 


A colorful booth at SGG 2006

 


Garden Railways will be on display...


 

Thanks to our Vendors & Participants

ACRE Advocates for Clean Responsible Energy
American Fuchsia Society
Anti-Graffiti and Anti-Litter
Bay Area Garden Railway Society
Breathe California of the Bay Area
Cactus & Succulent Society of SJ
Calabash Club of Silicon Valley
California Clean Money Campaign
Camellia Society of SCC
Campbell FFA Boosters
Carman's Nursery
Crescent Hill Nursery
David Anderson, Grower
David Sarasua. Grower
Dr. Ali Tootoonchi -- Chiropractor
Electric Auto Association
Electro Ride
Environmental Volunteers
Foothill College -- Krause Center for Innovation
Friends of GRPG -- Seed Planting
Friends of GRPG -- Explore the Micro Cosmos
Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County
Glenna Harris Weavers Guild
Green Waste Recovery, Inc.
Heritage Rose Garden Volunteers
Horizon Energy Systems
John E. Stowell Dahlia Society
Keep San Jose Beautiful
Knox Gardening Box
Love Apple Farm
Lover's Roses
Manny's Roses
Master Gardeners of SC County
Middlebrook Gardens
Orchid Design
Our City Forest
Paradise Art & Garden
Rexchimes
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum & Planetarium
San Jose Composts
San José Go Green
Santa Clara Open Space Authority
SCC Home Composting Education Program
SCC Registrar of Voters
Sempervirens Fund
Sheshe Miracles
Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition
The Ladybug Project
Watershed Watch
Yume Glass Art
 

 


 

ompost Bin Sale

The City of San Jose's ESD Department will be selling subsidized Compost Bins and Worm Composting Bins at Spring in Guadalupe Gardens.  There are several bins to choose from depending your composting needs, and all are fantastically priced!

 


Click here to see a larger version!
776 KB .pdf File

 


 

FREE -- Electronic Waste RECYCLING

Fund Raiser Benefiting Friends of Guadalupe River Park and Gardens

We Take All Computer & Electronic Equipment Including:

  • Desktops, laptops & PDAs

  • Mice and keyboards

  • Monitors and televisions w Stereos, radios & players

  • Printers, copy & fax machines

  • VCRs, DVD players, etc.

  • Computer systems (we erase HDs)

  • Telephones & cell phones

Click her to see a full page flyer about this. (1 MB .pdf file)

More detailed list of items that can be dropped off. (.4 MB .pdf file)

 


 

Thanks to all of the donors of the Donation Drawing
Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Friends of GRP&G

 
Citti's Florist Lush Green Plant Gift Certificate ($50)
Yamagami's Nursery 5-Gallon Shade Tree Gift Certificate
Yamagami's Nursery 5-Gallon Shade Tree Gift Certificate
Capitol Wholesale Nursery $100 Gift Certificate
AJ's Auto Detailing $50 Gift Card for Express Wax
AJ's Auto Detailing $50 Gift Card for Express Wax
Regan Nursery $25 Gift Certificate
Target $25 Gift Certificate
Target $25 Gift Certificate
Target $25 Gift Certificate
Target $25 Gift Certificate
Four Winds Nursery 1 Dwarf Citrus Tree
Central Wholesale Nursery 2 Flats of Marigolds
Summer Winds Nursery (Campbell) 1-Gallon Red Maple
Summer Winds Nursery (Campbell) 1-Gallon Red Maple
Summer Winds Nursery (San Jose) 1-Gallon Rose
Summer Winds Nursery (San Jose) 1-Gallon Rose

 

 


 

Thanks to our Sponsors and Supporters!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supporters

Goldsmith Seeds
Target at San Jose MarketCenter
EarthCare Recycling

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