Festivals, Feasts & Fairs

PEBBLE BEACH--Explore the art of horticulture at the Pebble Beach Garden Show, April 12-14. The show, themed “American Garden Style, Indoors and Out,” is 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Lodge at Pebble Beach on the 17-Mile Drive. Seminars, demonstrations and the Garden Marketplace are featured at the exhibition of landscaping and flowers, presented by Garden Design Magazine. $15 daily; $40, three-day pass. (408) 622-8765.

SANTA MARIA--Celebrate a favorite fruit of the season at the Santa Maria Valley Strawberry Festival, April 19-21, at Santa Maria’s fairgrounds on Staowell Avenue. Featuring: strawberry dishes, a carnival, live music, games for kids and more, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. daily. $4, general; $2, kids 6-11; free for those 5 and under. (800) 549-0036.

WALNUT CREEK--The Lindsay Museum presents an Earth Day Festival, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. April 20. Kids’ activities, Earth-friendly home and garden displays, demonstrations and more are offered at the museum, 1931 1st Ave. (in Larkey Park). $3, general; $2, kids 3-17 and seniors; free for kids under 3 and members. (510) 935-1978.

SAN DIEGO--The 13th annual Avenues of the Arts celebration brings handcrafted wares, live music, children’s projects and exotic foods to the streets of the Gaslamp Quarter, April 20-21. Festivities are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on 5th Avenue, between Market and L streets. Free. (619) 239-1143.

RIVERSIDE--There’s a citrus scent to the fun at the second annual Sunkist Orange Blossom Festival, 10 a.m.-dusk, April 20-21. Riverside, home of the naval orange, celebrates its orange history with a “gourmet grove” of orange delicacies, live entertainment on four stages, vintage trains and cars and a parade at 10 a.m. Saturday. Visitors are encouraged to wear turn-of-the-century costumes to commemorate the area’s citrus-rich period of the 1870s-1930s. Free. In downtown and Citrus State Historic Park. (800) 382-8202.

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