(DEL MAR) -- The 20th anniversary Spring Home/Garden Show will be held March 4-6, 2005 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. More than 500 exhibits with products and services for inside and outside the home will be presented throughout the five-acre Home/Garden Show, as well as free seminars addressing such subjects as how to grow a successful low water garden and how to incorporate stepping stones, one of the hottest landscaping elements.
A special show feature is “The Garden Masters,” showcasing the landscape design and installation ingenuity of San Diego’s finest designers and firms. Each participant creates a full garden just for this show, where theatrical lighting, sounds of trickling fountains, and sheer creativity make for a spectacular collection totaling thousands of square feet inside the Garden Masters building. You’ll find solutions for everything from how to create an urban garden in a small space or one with lush meandering meadows with child-friendly features.
To create this show feature, the Garden Masters will bring in more than 2,000 yards of soil, 375 palettes of landscaping blocks, 300 boxed specimen trees, shrubs, tons of stones; plus 9,000 gallons of water to fill water features, ponds and waterfalls.
Show hours are from noon-7 p.m., Friday, March 4; 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday, March5; and 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sunday, March 6. Admission is $12.00; children under 12 are free. Seniors receive a special admission price of $6.00 on opening day only; half-price tickets are available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday after 3 p.m. for $6.00
Both the Spring and Fall Home/Garden Shows at the Del Mar Fairgrounds are produced by Lawrence Bame of Westward Expos in San Diego. For recorded information, call (858) 519-0855, or visit www.springhomegardenshow.com.
