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Spring Events
We have lots of fun events coming up this spring — come out and join us! February 5th, 10:45 am: Join Leslie Bennett and Stefani Bittner at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show, for “The Beautiful...
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This week on Instagram
A few days of rain has done wonders for our gardens this week! Especially for the edible flowers. Rosemary, Violas, Calendula and English Lawn Daisies — we are harvesting them all! The post This...
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Mark your calendars and save the date for Sunset Magazine’s Celebration Weekend, May 31 -June 1! We are thrilled to be designing one of five demonstration gardens for this year’s event along with Bay...
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Peppermint Candyflower
Miner lettuce’s pretty cousin — the edible Peppermint Candyflower (Claytonia sibirica). Both leaves (taste like miner’s lettuce) and flowers are edible and great additions to salad mixes. A shade...
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SF Flower & Garden Show
We’re heading to the SF Flower & Garden Show this week! Join us Thursday, March 20 at 2:15 pm and Sunday, March 23 at 10:30 am for a talk on The Beautiful Edible Garden! Plus Stef is giving a solo...
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Bronzed Beauty Calendula
It is easy to see why Bronzed Beauty Calendula is one of our favorites! The beautiful two toned petals are stunning in the garden and equally so in your salad mixes. We grow Bronzed Beauty year round...
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Edible Flowers!
Everyone enjoys a big, cheerful bouquet of flowers, but did you know that many of the flowers you know and love are also edible? It’s true – everything from roses and nasturtiums to violas and...
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Recent Projects: A Beautiful Edible and Low Water Front Garden
Here’s a preview of a recent project we’re really excited to share. Apricots, agastache, lavender, pomegranates and rosemary are all feautured in this beautiful edible low water front garden. Verbenna...
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Bay Meadows
What do you get when you combine Star Apple, an 83-acre development, raised beds, a steel drum band, 50+ excited gardeners of all ages, free vegetable start giveaways, and delicious food and cocktails?...
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Images from the Summer Garden
We are already reminiscing the season as we enter these last few days of summer. Before we start swapping tomatoes for brassicas, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite images from the...
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Small Space, Big Dreams in the October issue of Sunset Magazine
So fun to see our ‘Edible Bounty’ demonstration garden in the October issue of Sunset Magazine! This June we created a 25 ft x 25 ft edible landscape for Sunset’s Small Space, Big Dreams challenge...
View ArticleThe Bagrada Bug
We here at Star Apple just wanted to update you on a particularly pesky and destructive insect that’s made its way up to the Bay Area. It’s a non-native, invasive species called the bagrada bug....
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