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Several guided tours are available to Festival of Fruit 2008 CRFG registrants.
Because of limitations and scheduled hours, we ask that you send your tour requests to:
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Any Questions Or Problems CALL 949-633-3756
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You will receive confirmation, hours, and directions by e-mail.
Orange County Member’s garden tours
Eunice Messner Anaheim Hills TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
Eunice’s garden is located on a hillside with a beautiful view overlooking an adjacent golf course. To make room for everything, she’s “borrowed” space from neighbors. The garden is mature and has plantings of all kinds of subtropicals too numerous to mention but including the “Elixir” cherimoya which she developed and named. Pathways are steep, narrow and often convex on the steeper slopes. Accordingly the number of visitors at any one time is restricted.
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Tom Henricks Huntington Beach TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
Tom’s garden covers two adjoining back yards and he’s getting ready to spill over into a third. Like many of our city gardens, his is intensively cultivated in the manner espoused by Dave Wilson Nursery. Plantings include deciduous and semitropical trees with lots of berries including three kinds of blackberries. The latter are attached to concrete reinforcing wire which he also uses to espalier many of his trees.
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Julie and Paul Frink Huntington Beach TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
This yard is another example of intensive planting. The front yard has a token patch of grass and is otherwise filled predominantly with peach and avocado trees and a few others with a very tall calamondin as a backdrop. A beautiful sight in the spring. The back yard is Julie’s working nursery. In addition to a few large trees there are literally hundreds of smaller trees, mostly avocado, in pots and in the ground, everywhere. It’s very crowded so we are limiting the number of visitors at any one time.
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Steve Berger Huntington Beach TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
This organic garden reflects Steve’s many interests, some of which are pomegranates, bananas, and figs but also includes avocados, citrus, stone fruits, berries and more. The basic garden is horseshoe-shaped and the first impression is that it’s a profusion of trees and plants in a seemingly unkempt manner. A closer look, however, reveals that it reflects the intent to allow anything that falls to remain in place to return to nature and replenish the fertility of the soil. As a result there are places where access is limited to the determined.
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Doug Van Mullen Huntington Beach TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
Doug’s garden is relatively newly planted, near and well maintained. It features
14 varieties of avocados on 12 trees as well as several citrus varieties and
other subtropicals:
Long Beach Veterans Administration Medical Center
This two acre therapeutic and vocational garden is full of surprises. Plantings are impressive, ranging from the hardy Nanking Bush Cherry (Alberta) to tropicals like cherimoyas, sapotes and bananas. Fruits are for the patients’ and volunteers’ own use. Activities range from transplanting seedlings into progressively larger pots for ultimate sale in the hospital’s shop, to harvesting. With its own flock of parrots and monarch butterflies it’s truly a gorgeous and inspiring place to spend a summer morning.
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Don Winterstein Brea
Our current chapter chairman has exploited a unique opportunity to expand his city garden. He’s taken advantage of the opportunity to use a utility easement behind his house and which is about a city block long. There, Don grows a multitude of plants which include avocados, stone fruits, cherimoyas, citrus, jujubes, Surinam cherry and other Eugenia, Pakistani mulberry and yakon to name just a few. It’s a win – win for everyone: the utility doesn’t have to spray for weeds, the neighbors have the chance to enjoy some unusual fruits and Don gets an expanded opportunity to exercise his passion: organic gardening.
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Frank Wagoner Lake Forest
This is a relatively new garden in which Frank has re-made a retaining wall at the back of the property using his own design and materials. On the retaining wall he’s planted an herb garden. On the slope several citrus, bananas, and more. The yard also has 4 apple trees. Patio has various plants in pots and containers. Throughout the garden are many mechanical assists Frank has designed and made or adapted from other uses. The steps through out the slope are both permanate and removable to place in different locations as needs change
Melissa’s is the nation’s leading wholesaler of unusual
fruits and vegetables from horn melons to, most recently, mangosteens and
they’re always looking for more. Recently they’ve installed a test kitchen which
we’ll be visiting. Melissa’s is an active FDA certified facility and there are
clothing restrictions: specifically sandals, open toed shoes and high heels
aren’t permitted and wearers thereof will be denied access. Also, the
temperature in some places will be only 2 degrees Celsius so bring a jacket.
We’re limited to just 35 people so visits will be by reservation only.
As parking at Melissa’s is impossible, the tour will
begin with a bus ride starting in Fullerton. The bus will leave at 10 AM;
expected arrival back in Fullerton will be about 1PM. There will be a $16 per person charge.
Request tour by sending e-mail to foftours@verizon.net AS OF 9/16/08 2 spaces additional Available. signup this tour before it is filled up
The Arboretum, adjacent to CSUF, is home to the annual GreenScene, the site of our chapter’s annual plant sale. Its plantings include a large area which contains mature specimens of many of the fruit trees we know and love including mulberries, cherimoyas, malabar chestnut, rose apple, carambola, guavas et al. as well as an avocado forest. There are also community gardens, ponds, meadows, a little lake and lots of flowers.
This is the home side of the Meyers’ nursery. You’ll find many years of experience in the in-ground examples of many fruit trees, which includes a large espaliered cherimoya. There will be plants for sale as well.
SOUTH COAST RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER http://groups.ucanr.org/southcoast/ Space limited register ASAP!!!!!
This test station is home to perhaps the world’s largest collection of avocado and persimmon varieties as well as large interests in warm climate peaches, strawberries and citrus. The tour will be by wagon; there are only forty seats.
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WEDNESDAY 9A.M. FRINK , HENRICKS TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
WEDNESDAY 10A.M. FRINK , BERGER TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
WEDNESDAY 11A.M. VAN MULLEN TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
WEDNESDAY 1:30 P.M. WINTERSTEIN
THURSDAY 9A.M. LONG BEACH VA MEDICAL CENTER
THURSDAY 9A.M. MESSNER TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
THURSDAY 10A.M. to 1:00pm MELISSA’S Bus trip- F - PAST EVENT TIME FULL
THURSDAY 11A.M. MESSNER TOUR FULL NO MORE SPACE
THURSDAY 2pm WAGONER
FRIDAY 9A.M. – NOON FULLERTON ARBORETUM
SUNDAY MORNING SOUTH COAST RESEARCH & EXTENSION CENTER two time slots 9:00am and 10:30am SPACE LIMITED!!!
SUNDAY 9A.M. – 4P.M. MEYER
SUNDAY 1:30 – 6P.M. WINTERSTEIN
PLACES TO VISIT BEFORE AND AFTER THE CONFERENCE
Orange County
ORANGE COUNTY CHAPTER PRE Festival Of FRUIT MEETING.
Our September 18 meeting will be appropriately on Avocados presented by
Dewey Savage, Julie Frink, and Dennis Luby.
It is untitled at the moment, but will be regarding
misconceptions on growing Avocados and Q and A
The time is 7:30 pm -9:45pm
Laguna Hills Nursery www.lagunahillsnursery.com Laguna Hills Nursery is the premier source for top quality rose specimens. Expert information from world renown expert Gary Matsuoka.
Roger’s Gardens www.rogersgardens.com Sitting upon seven acres across from Fashion Island, Roger’s Gardens has grown to be known as ‘America’s Most Beautiful Home and Garden Center’.
Sherman Gardens www.slgardens.org Horticultural retreat in Corona del Mar, featuring a cactus and succulent garden, a tropical conservatory, rose, herb, and Japanese gardens.
Santa Ana Zoo www.santaanazoo.org The Santa Ana Zoo has a reputation as "The Monkey Zoo".The collection is primarily neotropic, or South and Central American animals with a focus on rainforest and rare and endangered animals.
Disneyland www.disneyland.disney.go.com The Disneyland Resort is the perfect place to spend a fun-filled day the entire family will enjoy.
Knotts Berry Farm www.knotts.com What was once an actual berry farm is now 160 acres of world class rides, unique family shows and one of a kind attractions.
South Coast Plaza www.southcoastplaza.com Orange County's largest shopping mall
Fashion Island www.shopfashionisland.com Fashion Island is home to Orange County's shopping experience. With modern and innovative architecture, live vegetation and dazzling water features
Antique Shopping in Orange http://www.beachcalifornia.com/orange2.html Old Towne Orange features a circular street with a park, tall trees and water fountain set in the middle of the roundabout road. Extending out on four streets from the circle are antiques stores and shops, restaurants and even an old-fashioned Watson's Drug Store with a red-checkered theme from the 1950's
LA County
Huntington Gardens & Museum www.huntington.org The Botanical Gardens are divided into more than a dozen thematic areas on 120 acres and include more than 15,000 different species of plants.
LA County Arboretum www.arboretum.org The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden is comprised of a 127 acre botanic garden
Descanso Gardens www.descansogardens.org A 160-acre public garden in La Caņada near Los Angeles
Getty Museum www.getty.edu The J. Paul Getty Museum seeks to further knowledge of the visual arts and to nurture critical seeing by collecting, preserving, exhibiting and interpreting works of art of the highest quality
San Diego Zoo www.sandiegozoo.org
San Diego Wild Animal Park www.sandiegozoo.org/wap/index.html
Lego Land www.legoland.com
Exotica Nursery www.exoticararefruit.com Over 375 varieties of Exotic, Tropical and Rare fruits from around the world on 5 acres - all for sale. Daily fruit tasting!
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