Fourth Annual Green Gardens Tour
Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 04:30AM
Fabian Lewkowicz in Environmental , Flowers

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(above) Award-winning garden designer, Docent Mayita Dinos,   explains the benefits of the 'Rain Garden' (located on 1027 Princeton) during the Fourth Annual Green Gardens Tour  'Gardening with Intent: Water Management' on Saturday, April 26, 2008. The rain water garden, which she has been working on for the past 6 years, is drought-tolerant and will save 80,000 gallons of water per year. (top) Steve Gerdes and his wife Michelle, who drove up from Long Beach for the tour, walk through the 'rain garden' on Saturday. The Green Gardens Tour is a celebration of what is beautiful and possible - and together with the Virginia Avenue Project, helps to sustain our planet one kid and one garden at a time! The tour benefits the Virginia Avenue Project, a not-for-profit arts organization that uses the arts to help kids discover their full potential.

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