garden experience one of our biggest finding is 74 percent of our folks hadn't been at a garden center but eave talked with a lot of the folks and you know asking about how we are not duplicating anything and this survey result shows there's a lot of people not engaged by counter resources. so about half of people expressed or were identified as intermediate gardeners and we have an extensive wait list yet 92 percent of people were not on waiting lists. members of the public are allowed to be on as many waiting lists as that he, but several people are on the waiting lists placing the waiting game. we asked the folks what their goals were and the largest goals was growing food for personal consumpti consumption. folks are wanting to have a forum to meet with other community members or growing their own produce and some folks are growing food important other. this the 9 percent survey and at places like knob hill and community garden they're looking at the hamil and therapy prospects. the garden has several areas the raised spots and space force demonstration garden and this center makes

shakespeares' garden is ada accessible. located at the bottom of this hill, it is a secret garden with an infinite in captivating appeal. carefully tucked away, it makes the top of our list for most intimate pyknic setting. avoid all taurus cars and hassles by taking a cable car. or the 30, 45, or 91 bus. the garden was designed by thomas church in 1957. grow old with me, the best is yet to be is inscribed on a sundial. it is anchored by twin white gazebos and flowers that bloom year-round. this is the place to tell someone special or the place to declare the commitment you two share. weddings and the event reservations are available for this adorable hidden gem. we know there are many other romantic parks in san francisco. we hope you have enjoyed this torre of lookouts, picnics, and strolls that are available every day. until next time, do not forget to get out and play. for more information about reserving one of these romantic locations or any other location, call 831-5500. this number is best for special events, weddin

ruth wallace came up with the idea of a garden tour and a lot of us thought, a garden tour?ur neighborhood? who is going to come? well, we had every -- we've done it for six years. every year we've grown incrementally. after the first two years of raising money for the library -- there's our new library -- we then it was such a great community builder that we recently decided to keep wanting to volunteering and do it. we established a scholarship at city college for the horticultural department. and we have just gone gangbusters. we get good press and we get to see everybody's neighbor -- all our neighbors' gardens. because of the way san francisco s you get to be veuyer because usually you have to go through their garage or their house to see the gardens. and ruth gets known through the neighborhood because she's constantly peeking over fences and leaving fliers in people's mailboxes saying, do you want to be on the garden tour, and all this sort of thing. but anyway, so, we've -- just to show you how much the neighborhood has gotten to know each other, all the people in th

the garden is a gem to share with someone special. pack a picnic, find a bench, enjoy the sunshine and let the whimsical words of william shakespeare float you and your loved one away. this is one of the most popular wedding locations and is available for reservations. shakespeares garden is 8ada accessible. this park is located at the bottom of a hill. it is a secret garden with an infinite and captivating appeal. carefully tucked away, one block from the bottom of lombard street, it makes the top of our list for the most intimate picnic settings. avoid all tourist cars and parking hassles by hopping on the cable car. or the 30, 45, 41, or 91 bus. this garden was designed by a the landscape architect thomas church in 19 to -- 1957. grow old with me, the best is yet to be is inscribed at this gem of a park. a lush oasis anchored by gazebosanchoreddekcs, -- gazebos, anchored by decks. this is the place to tell your family the love you share. reservations are available for this hidden gem. i am jamie hopper. until next time, don't forge

i can definitely appreciate the other gardens and spaces and gardens that people have for me and my child. thank you. >>> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is darren [speaker not understood]. i'm an architect here in san francisco. i've been brought in by the d-r requestors and the neighbors to present some certain documents some of which you already have, others you don't which i'd like to give to you now. and these represent some studies that were done on the property. ~ sun studies the first set of documents i wanted to talk about were the floor plans that you've already received. i'd just like to be clear that these floor plans aren't represented to be a substitute design for the project. it's obvious with some difficulty to take a much larger [speaker not understood] and shrink within that all the problematic requirements and make it work. however, i think the floor plans in general show that with some obvious trade-offs, a fit is possible to stay within the existing building envelope. i'm only going to show you the ground floor level. the floor levels are fairly similar. the tr

(laughter) is a garden -- let's say call the garden for the mind for a second, can we do that?. >> stephen: you sometimes drill down. you have such an intricate level of plants in your -- in your garden. firm the mezzanine your character is -- it takes place going up an escalator. it's about a five-minute trip that takes a 200 page book. >> it's a travel book. >> stephen: yes, it's a travel book. it is. it is. but it's almost a schizophrenic level of detail in the things you write. you see patterns all over the place. sometimes where maybe patterns don't exist. have you ever thought of your writing as a cry for help? (laughter) >> i look at it differently. i think you really -- anyone who lives a life and this is about it everyday and kind of ad hoc just ideas about what's happening. and those things are eventually worth putting a book. >> stephen: why not a broad stage of more action, quality kills? (laughter) >> good ideas. but i think that -- when you -- when you're going along and thinking about what actually happens to human beings the way we -- the people in your life, we

pn street garden. how many people are loik i didn't even know that was there because they come off the offramp and look in that direction. an oasis in the city maintained, not just by annie anymore, but a team of neighbors who volunteer one saturday morning a month to keep the garden growing. annie said she didn't know before the guard opinion .annie said she didn't know what she's get into back then. if she did, the garden never would have been planted and an urban success story never would have taken root. >> i think being able to understand the community i lived in was very important to me. something that was completely asleep before this. >> esh now partners with with the park alieng lines and cal tran to keep the garden going. they're even beautifying a part of pennsylvania street a few blocks away. annie can only guess how hard she's worked on her garden, but one group of santa clara students exactly know how hard they worked to build a house. 1.2 million calories worth. this is an update we did

how many people are like, i didn't even know there was a garden there.se they come off the freeway offramp and they're looking in that direction. >> an oasis in the city maintained by a team of neighbors who volunteer one saturday morning a month to keep the garden growing, neighbors an any says she didn't know before this whole thing got started. >> i feel like i know everyone in the neighborhood and i know how deeply involved people can be in improving their neighborhood. >> annie says she is glad she didn't know what she was getting into back then, or if she did, the garden never would have been planted and an urban success story never would have taken root. >> i think that being able to understand the community that i love in and accept that that's something that's very fornt me which is something that was completely asleep before. that's been really heartwarming. i love it. i love it here. >> while she may have started out on her own were annie now partners with caltrans to keep the garden going. they've extended to a second location butte fieg a se

narrator: where space was too tight for expansive gardens, they painted gardens on the walls.the villas and houses and their contents reflected the enduring roman fascination with greek culture. paestum near naples was colonized by the greeks in 600 b.c. southern italy was part of greece before it was part of rome. naples, its name abbreviated from neapolis -the new city, retained its greek character for centuries. once rome's rival in the mediterranean, greece fell captive to rome in 146 b.c. swept from the stage by war, greece returned in a new role. its artistic traditions became a handsome backdrop to the mixture of politics, business and pleasures conducted in the private spaces of roman homes and villas. knowledge of ancient greek culture was a status symbol and badge of cultivation for the residents, who adopted greek history as their own. horace noted ruefully that: reader: "greece took captive her savage conqueror and brought civilization to the rustic latins." narrator: walls in the maritime villas and the houses and buildings of pompeii and herculaneum depicted gree

this slide shows some illnesses that the garden looked like. you can see a lot of raised bed and our sort of standard rec and park to share information with visitors. so n in perpetration during construction of the garden we initiated a e-mail for sfmta for folks to express interest and in may we did american people online survey to ask them give me frantic evangelist information to find out their experience so we could take our conceptual plan to meet the needs of the public as much as possible. of the 2 >> i pledge allegiance to the flag and 11 individuals that were on the wait list 1 hundred and 37 respond and it's 65 percent response. we had this on our page and we found their comments were the same as the waiting list members. waiting for our presentation. so how did we administer e-mail to the current list of folks who expressed interest in the garden. here we have some demographics on age and gender half were been the ages of 35 and 55 so a third of our folks on the list were from a young list. majority caucasian and down the list. where

the white house gardener, let's re-create this garden at the white house. ellen wilson could look out her bedroom window and see the flowers all day. roses.ted to see this becomes the rose garden at the white house. alan does not live to see the rose garden completed. she dies in the summer of 1914. is watches as the garden work done, but does not live to see the completion of the garden. it is a vision that begins here at prospect garden. >> so, ellen wilson cannot wait to see the rose garden completed. and as become part of our national lexicon. has become part of our national lexicon. here's what it looks like today. we have her tenure in the white house. we have a list of things that she did during the 17 months. we talked about the rose garden. the fact that she was a broughtonal artist and her profession to the white house. how significant was that? >> they did not set a standard for future first ladies. she earned money from selling her paintings. she'd set up a charity for her brother. the only of the first lady to earn money in the white house was

and specifically the residents of the maripsa gardens, the first meeting saying that the gardens was confusing and made it clear to us and those attending that the information had been estimated, thank you. and des i mated by word of mouth and they were asking about amenities as if they thought that they were living there. will there be cable and so the first meeting was a pr campaign and people had received different information and in regards to the authorization for a large project, asking for exceptions, for drawing exposure and open space and rear yard, the maoelting was not substantive and the 64 units were not sent the proper notification in spanish so the purpose of the meeting was not to address the impact of the community. our neighborhood groups had organized a meeting with the sia consulting and at that meeting the issues were presented but not resolved. >> the negative report had been submitted prior to the meetings and we have to rely on the sunshine ordinance for the information. and it became clear to us that the purpose was unfair and daunting for the neighbors, the

gardens for the residents. which will be very popular by all accounts. and solar equipment and other mechanical equipment on the roof and the roof decks that meets and collectively we meet the requirements. and so this diagram, flashed up here on the screen it just shows that you need the whole layout of all of the open space from the project starting with the residential strips in front. >> so the design of the outside of the building starts with the history of the neighborhood and it is a rich history and this is a picture of potrero point and irish hill that were leveled to fill in these codes. and that layering of this neighborhood, that the success and generations new things will happen showing a historic police station and a american building that have different eras in the dog patch and across the street as well. is the dog patch which is the launch condos. and so showing you the street of the neighborhood and the mix of the building types and scales, the very diverse area. >> your time is up. >> okay. >

annie now partners with cal-trans, the dpw to keep the garden going.n beautified pennsylvania street a few blooks away from the original location. now, annie can only guess mao hard she has worked on her garden, but one group of students nou know exactly how hard they worked to build a house. 1 .2 million calories wor. this is an update to a bay area proud story we did back in july on jim rietz. at age 75, he's been a key member of and mentor to santa clara's entries into the department of energy's solar decathl decathl decathl decathlon. it's a competition to see kwh school can build the most efficient, most attractive solar home. the team that did this year's entry wore nike bands. the now finished home trucked away from santa clara last week on its way to the competition being held next month in irvine. >> an eastbound couple takes animal ownership to a whole new level. >> guy from animal control was here counting. when she got to 115, she said i not going to count anymore. >> how they turned their home into a refuge. >>> our final story tonight is

and gardeners in training. and so we need to encourage that department to do better in that, and but even more, effective would be just to build the relationships with the department of the environment and help to get these folks to work yourselves. and so i was really glad to see that that was in their motion and in your resolution. and so once again, kutos to local 261, for partnering with the environmentalists at times and when we need them. and although, we want them to do more of that, of course. and strong support of your resolution, thanks. >> mr. brian? >> switched it. >> james bryant from the april, institute, and western region director. i also commend the commission for moving forward and supporting the laborers as you all probably know is that these are the kind of programs that are established back in the days and absent those kind of, somebody looked over me and said what is seda? those were the programs who gave the opportunities to minorities and the people of color, that after the nixon days, s

see you, too, all of you, too, on sunday gardener. >> if you have a gardening question call 21211. you can dwoe to the web site wbal-tv.com. >> have kerry engel show up and rachel gardener. >> that is too funny. >> 9:29. 50 degrees at the airport. sunday morning q and a is coming up next. >> the folks from the chow reare going to help us to remember the hit series breaking bad but in a sweet way. i am going to get sleep tonight. >> it is great for that. how long this present weather is in the forecast. >> welcome back. thank you for joining us. we are going to take another look outside with i've vau. it is starting to be a really pretty day. >> this weather pattern has been quiet. 9 days of rain. most of the days have only had a trace. today we are rain free. sunshine right now at in marshals. high pressure in place. we are going to see scattered clouds as we go through the day. as we look at the rain stats for the month so far we are about 2 inches below normal. for the entire year we are past 4 inches below normal. it has been rather dry. it is not great room for the farmers but

but the gardens of england are another matter. "the gardening in this country," he says, "is the article in which it surpasses all the earth." jefferson has read for years about these romantic places, where all nature seems to have been turned into a garden. but it is in the parks of paris where jefferson's life will be, for a short time, transformed. he has met a young woman. his capitulation is complete. his love letters to he are unlike any other words he has ever written. "our friendship is precious," he writes, "not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life. "and on the days we have lately passed, "the sun has indeed shone brightly on the presence of my charming companion." she is maria cosway. at 27, she has a musical voice, an air of intelligence and sophistication... and a husband. they have met here, the halles aux bleds, where trumbull had introduced them and jefferson had pronounced the design of the dome as "the most superb thing on earth." "how beautiful was every object!" he would write to her later. "the gardens

this is one of the early marina gardens on marina boulevard. we also have side yards that are developed in several different ways and as in the letter we wrote to you. some of them are front to back. most often occurring closest to the water to the marina boulevard and in this case also to another body of water, the house of fine arts lagoon. in some cases we have [speaker not understood] developed side yards. in this case and common cases a one-story garage and also a secondary one-story entrance. but all of these cases have in common is they were built adjacent to residential buildings with property line windows which provide light and air to the rooms overlooking the side yard. this is another example of a one-story garage. this is in fact the case you saw about a year ago and i'm going to come back to that later. what we have not said or as mr. armor implies in his d-r response is that all of these iterations or any of them are uniform [speaker not understood] and the contrary, they're varied and unique. they're frequent enough to be clearl

the memory of our ruth is very real it's suspended like the due drops she watched in the gardens. it hangs low in the greatness of san francisco fog that convinced the city. the journey is never easy it involves disappointments. the hero encounters take care forgiving obstacles. are you talking about face them all one-on-one and she kept moving. she reached her goal with embrace like a stone falling through water. she lived her life her own way and there is comfort in her, she did it all in art to raising a loving family and there's a lot of joy and celebration. ruth loved life. as this day we've done we take on the mantel as it she passed as we all must. i'd like to ask colleagues we adjourn in hear memory and take a moment to recognize supervisors mary >> i want to thank two of ruth's children for being here in addition to our artistic director. i believe that susan and others go choose a great memorial in our park and i wanted to read the parts that had a big impact on me. it's so great to see those young people with some enthusiasm and the lines their voices were so heavenly a

i hope you will maintain our beautiful marina garden area. thank you. >> if those people -- you can come up to the podium. those people lined up blocking the door, you are creating a fire hazard so i need to ask you guys to line up on this side of the room, please. could you line up on this side of the room, please? closest to the monitors. on the opposite side of the room, please. >> this is like the ice rink. >> thank you. >>> my name is ford sibley, senior. you already spoke to my son, floyd, jr. and i'm opposed to the project. everything pretty much has been talked about. there is kind of a main issue here. this is one of largest -- the the project is one of largest houses in area already. already. and i can feel the pain they want to president hu an elevator in. but they already have the largest house. the elevator -- a commercial residence elevator only needs to be 12 square feet. that can easily take up a house that's already bigger than almost twice the the size of our house next door at 37 08. so, it was really -- i don't think -- i

gardener: depressed he is already, and deposed he will be. thou! how dares thy harsh rude tongue sound this unpleasing news? what eve, what serpent, hath suggested thee to make a second fall of cursed man? why dost thou say king richard is deposed? darest, thou... thou little better thing than earth, divine his downfall? speak, thou wretch. gardener: pardon me, madam: little joy have i to breathe this news; yet what i say is true. king richard, he is in the mighty hold of bolingbroke: their fortunes both are weighed: in your lord's scale is nothing but himself, but in the balance of great bolingbroke, besides himself, are all the english peers, and with that odds he weighs king richard down. post you to london, and you will find it so; i speak no more than every man doth know. queen: and am i last that knows it? come, lady, go, to meet at london, london's king in woe. was i born to this, that my sad look should grace the triumph of great bolingbroke? gardener, for telling me these news of woe, pray god the plants thou graft'st may never grow. poor

she is still the chair of the board of the cusada gardens. we know it's quesada.laughter] >> she is still the board. she is still very much at the heart and soul of everything we do. she is our spiritual mentor, and we love her. we truly, truly adore this woman. and i'd like to introduce her to you and i think you'll understand why. congratulations, annette young smith. (applause) >> first of all, i thank god for being here and i thank god for all of you being here. >> amen. >> and i'd like to thank jeffery for nominating me and i accept the award. thank you. that's all. [laughter] (applause) ♪ ♪ (applause) >> what a fantastic way to end this evening. a standing o. that's fantastic. (applause) >> and a woman who obviously practices actions speak louder than words we need here in city hall. without further a do, we conclude this year's nen awards. i want to acknowledge my partner michael pollack back there. (applause) >> not only does he make me look old and fat, but he's an incredibly talented young man. these amazing videos, we'll get all this up on the web for y

. >> imagine that is in the garden. a nice two-everyone top dressing, and what you can do for the wintertime and this is really really helpful, take pure mulchc and do that.do and you have a 2 1/2 everyone o layer around the base of the plant. going to help that once the plant actually freezes stays frozen. the reason you want that, is that way the plants won't heath. heathing is when a plant freezes and thaws. if it freezes and thaws the plant will come up. the plant is sitting up, and what happens, is those tender td roots are exposed to a repeat frost or freeze. the oil is alive, it's the most important thing you can do is do get out there and get the soil working. me moree, and send questions and we will make sure we get them up. >> thank you, derrick. >> thank you, sarah. >> we will be right back. we love this kitchen! what's next? great! d do you have measuremen? yeah, i paced it off. it's about twenty by twelve of these. so, we can measure, plan and install it for you. yea, let's do that! ikea. professional kitch