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A GROWING PASSION: Garden Tours & Garden Shows: Finding Garden Inspiration

Walled gardens like this one help protect desert gardens from roaming predators and drying winds, Anza-Borrego. Calif.
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Walled gardens like this one help protect desert gardens from roaming predators and drying winds, Anza-Borrego. Calif.

Stream now or tune in Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. & Sunday, Jan. 10 at 11 a.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, Jan. 11 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2

Where do you go for garden inspiration? This episode takes us to some of California's most impressive garden tours and shows.

We start in the Anza-Borrego Desert to see how resourceful and creative gardeners create beauty in spite of punishing heat, sun, and very little water.

A beautiful moment of color in a desert garden.
Courtesy of AGP Productions, LLC
A beautiful moment of color in a desert garden.

Then we visit the coast where lush, low water gardens are filled with art and imagination.

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And we head to the San Francisco Flower Show, California's biggest and best show of all. There, we explore elaborate display gardens, shop the colorful marketplace, and hear experts who speak about everything from design to how to start vegetables from seed.

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About The Series:

A GROWING PASSION is a lifestyle program that explores San Diego County’s agriculture and horticulture activities as an expression of this growing earth-friendly movement. From backyard food production to major horticultural growers, from low water landscapes to sustainable practices around the home and in the garden, we tell stories about the natural and man-made landscapes that shape the social, cultural, environmental and economic interests of our community.

We celebrate how San Diego grows. The series is hosted by Nan Sterman.