Holiday Home Tour Tickets Available at Poway Store

Once again, Walter Andersen Nursery in Poway will have tickets for sale, by early November, to the NCL Poway Holiday Home Tour (NCL Poway HHT 2006).

This is the fifth year the Poway chapter of the National Charity League has sponsored the home tour. More than 500 attendees are expected to visit the three homes on the tour that takes place Dec. 2 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tickets cost $25. Proceeds will benefit three local philanthropies, one of which is the Gayle Kennedy Scholarship Fund; the other two are to be decided.

For more information, see http://www.nclpoway.org.

San Diego Horticulture Society Presentation

Join one of Walter Andersen Nursery’s favorite people from one of our favorite growers! Nicholas Staddon, Director of New Plant Introductions at Monrovia Nursery will give a presentation Aug. 14 to the San Diego Horticulture Society. See their website at http://www.sdhortsoc.org/meeting_dates.htm for more information.



Nicholas will give a ‘behind closed doors’ look at Monrovia’s new nursery under construction in the Central Valley. He will also introduce guests to some of the great plant hunters of the U.S, and discuss the process of bringing new plants to market.