Garden Events

Walks, Talks, Shows and Special Sales

Saturday: Plant sale at Quail Gardens, with many northern San Diego County rare-plant nurseries exhibiting, including Buena Creek Garden, Bird Rock Tropicals, Solana Succulents, Weidner’s Gardens and others, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Quail Botanical Gardens, 230 Quail Gardens Drive, Encinitas, (760) 436-3036. Admission: $3, adults; free for children 12 and under.

Saturday: California Deserts Day, with children’s activities such as a tortoise race and desert scavenger hunt, a “cactus corner” and tours of the desert garden, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden at Claremont, 1500 N. College Ave., (909) 625-8767. Free.

Saturday and May 24: Show and sale by the South Bay Geranium Society, noon-4 p.m Saturday and 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 24, at the South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula, (310) 544-1948. $5, adults; $3, seniors and students; $1, children.

Send garden announcements to Garden Events, Los Angeles Times, Times Mirror Square, Los Angeles, CA 90053, at least three weeks before the event date.