“Oh, Dear! (Oh, Deer!) – Coping with Bambi in the Garden” is the topic for the Tuesday, Aug. 26 Garden Club of Los Altos program.
The speaker is Bob Hornbeck, a teacher, writer, cultivator, botanical guide, docent and lifelong learner in the field of horticulture.
For this meeting, he chooses to share his current topic of interest: getting into the mind of deer.
He will share vulnerable and invulnerable plants for dealing with these visitors in the garden, lawful reminders and suggestions to take away from the talk.
There are a few experts in any field whose personal knowledge and experience are so varied and vast that they can never catalog or archive it no matter how many books are written or lectures given.
Hornbeck is one of those individuals. Horticulturist, nurseryman, teacher and cultivar of unusual plants, he has been in the center of California’s plant world his whole life.
A multi-generational Californian, he was born and raised in Antioch and Concord and traces his Hupa (Hoopa) ancestors back thousands of years.
His own nursery, Muchas Grasses, was the first and only all-grasses nursery in northern California.
The Garden Club of Los Altos meets at the Los Altos Lutheran Church, 460 S. El Monte Ave., Los Altos on the fourth Tuesday of each month except July, November and December.
The meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. and the program at approximately 1:30. There is a $10 fee for guests.
For more information about the club and its activities, visit thegardencluboflosaltos.org.
For Garden Club of Los Altos membership details, email [email protected].
