The California Garden Club statewide organization is calling all green thumbs to assist with transplanting lupines this Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Fort Funston Nursery in San Francisco. The effort is part of "Project: Mission Blue," sponsored by the California Garden Club for the past five years. This project works to save the endangered Mission blue butterfly by growing and planting its lupine host plant. "We have had a surprisingly high success rate germinating our summer lupi

It was 99 in Windsor Sunday -- are you wilting yet? If you're ready for fall, come get in the mood for autumn at the Windsor Garden Club meeting Tuesday (Sept. 20) at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room at the Windsor Senior Center, 9231 Foxwood Drive. We're holding a free hands-on workshop on how to build decorative holiday pumpkins fit for centerpieces, hostess gifts, mantles, front porches and more. The club's floral design experts will demonstrate how to use moss, succulent

What's a Hypertufa? Find out at the Windsor Garden Club's first Hypertufa Workshop in the Garden Sunday Sept. 11. (You've waited long enough: a hypertufa is a molded concrete container that you make yourself. Boxes, leaves and other materials can serve as your cement molds. When finished, you've got a unique planter.) Participants should bring a some "modest sized" boxes to use as forms for a decorative planter made with cement. The free workshop begins at 9 a.m. in the Town