2nd Annual
Water
Wizard
Festival

Using fun games, exciting activities & cool experiments to educate children on the Guadalupe Watershed, pollution prevention, and water conservation. Here's a list of just some of the fun you can have:

Butterfly Activity sponsored by

Butterfly information, coloring books, view plants that attract local butterflies and plant seeds of these plants to take home.

EnviroScape Interactive watershed model that demonstrates how pollution enters the creeks and rivers and travels to the bay.

Water Wizard Hats

Watershed Watch

Fishing in the City

We are proud to be a part of:

EarthDay

Spring in Guadalupe Gardens

The 2002 Spring in Guadalupe Gardens was a brilliant success.  Thousands of people filled Spring Street to purchase rose, vegetable and decorative plants, get garden advice, listen to live music, and enjoy great food.  The Water Wizard Festival delighted young families with a number of great activities that educated as well as entertained.

For info on next year's event, click here

This year, SGG featured:

• Plant Sales

• Garden Accessories

• Heirloom Tomatoes, Specialty Peppers

• Info for Garden Lovers

• Garden Tours

• Rose Garden in Full-bloom

• Compost Give-Away and Bin Sale

• Food & Entertainment

Music from the Marimba of Mario Monzón and Bluegrass by the "Approach Zone Drifters"

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Thanks to all of our wonderful Vendors & Booths that made SGG such a great success! Four Seasons Garden John E Stowell Dahlia Society Plants To Go Skooters Ice Cream Parlor South Bay Heritage Rose Group Mendocino Heirloom Roses David Anderson, Grower Regan Nursery Pfister's Perennials Blackbird Hill Nursery Calabash Club Topiary Garden Art Glenna Harris Weavers Guild South Bay Water Recycling Watershed Watch Our City Forest Clara B Rees Iris Society San Jose Cactus and Succulent Greenwaste Recovery Seasons ESD/Watershed Outreach BFI (Compost Giveaway) SJ Anti-Graffiti Program Waste Management SCC Master Composters Master Gardeners San Jose Compost Valley Orchids, Inc. Doc Whizzie's General Store Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport Alive n' Silk Carneghi-Hall Designs Lover's Roses Ortiz Pottery Outlet Plants to Go SC Valley Water District San Jose Conservation Corps The Green Team

Special thanks to the following contributors to our best Donation Drawing Ever! Almaden Valley Nursery Antonelli Brothers Begonia Gardens Blossom Floral Shop Calabash Club Carman's Nursery Clara B Rees Iris Society Common Ground David Anderson, Grower Doc Whizzie's General Store Four Seasons Garden Four Winds Nursery John E Stowell Dahlia Society Lucy Perez Tupperware Lover's Roses Mendocino Heirloom Roses Navlet's Garden Center Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport Onishi Florist Ortiz Pottery Outlet Pfister's Perennials Regan Nursery San Jose Cactus and Succulent San Jose Compost Seasons Sequoia Nursery Summer Winds Nursery -Almaden Summer Winds Nursery -Winchester Waste Management Valley Orchids, Inc. Valley's Pride Organics Yamagami Nursery

 

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Thanks to Our Sponsors

Kiwanis Club of San Jose

 

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Lucy Perez Volunteer Coordinator

We Needed Volunteers! And we sure got some! Lucy Perez and all of us would like to thank all of the wonderful volunteers who made SGG such a great event.  A special thanks to the volunteer planning committee for their special talents and willingness to contribute.

 

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Next year's Spring in Guadalupe Gardens will be held on: Saturday, April 26, 2003 Mark your calendars!

 

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The Year of the Rose - 2002 is a world-wide, year long, grassroots event designed to promote the rose as a universal symbol of love, friendship, beauty and peace; a flower of unsurpassed importance in art, history, literature and music. It is the world's favorite flower, one which has provided inspiration to mankind since the beginning of time. Click the icon to learn more!

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