This past Saturday, over 230 garden lovers traversed Highway 1 from Fort Bragg to Albion visiting six beautiful north coast gardens as part of the 15th Annual Mendocino Coast Garden Tour, making for a succesful fundraising event for the Mendocino Art Center. It was a beautiful, yet windy, blue sky day to check out the private gardens, listen to live music, and watch painting, mosaic and tango dancing demonstrations.

A big "thank you" goes out to the garden owners for their generosity and the dozens of volunteers that make the Tour possible each year. And, a big "congratulations" to the raffle winner, Fort Bragg's Ruth Schroeder, who won a coveted collection of garden books, including "Clematis," by Barry Fretwell; "Garden Diary: Green Thumb Guide & Personal Planner," by Maggie Malone; "Gardening From the Heart (Why Gardeners Garden)," by Carol Olwell; and "Perennials," by Rob Proctor and Rob Gray.