These are some of my favorite things from the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.
These was the booth of Mediterranean Pots . The owner is from Spain and goes back to find them. They vary in age up to 120 years old and have had many uses in their life. They were absolutely gorgeous and used in a lot of the exhibit gardens.
I think that this was my favorite exhibit garden. It was a little other world. Like Science Fiction world. We last came to this show in 2005 and this has to be my all time favorite garden by Studio Replica, Inc. . I meant to return to their booth to get some cast eucalyptus stepping stones for my own landscaping, but after 7 hours on my feet, I kinda pooped out. That just means I'll have to make a future trip to Petaluma. Darn.
I couldn't resist buying some succulents to add to my collection as they were a common theme in many of the exhibits here.
And combined with other strange looking foliage.
We had to take a break as the show covered about 5 acres, so we parked ourselves in front of the booth for Filoli Gardens and looked at this lovely arrangement of tullips, hyacinths and daffies for a while. I also managed to buy a lovely clock and some plaques from artist Angus Macaulay which he signed, some pretty wild looking poppies from Annie's Annuals and a sort of hydroponic gardening starter kit so I can grow my own organic lettuce. 
Then we loaded up, drove to Japantown to do even more shopping, especially at Kinokuniya, the always interesting bookstore, where I had to buy some books on Japanese quilting, had a nice tempura dinner then drove home. Whew. Now, if the weather would only cooperate, I could get all my plants settled and the yard going. Are you listening weather?
Sunday, we took a drive to the foothills. The scenery was beautiful and the wildflowers are just starting to bloom. We had some errands to run one of which was getting our supply of olive oil in Copperopolis. Coppperopolis is a lovely California Gold Rush era town where we once happened upon a man selling first press olive oil several years ago. Then, we didn't know of the Italian obsession with the liquid gold. Now, we understand why.
The Calaveras Land and Olive Oil Company offices where olive oil tasting is available.
We sampled this year's fresh press. Those are our gallons of 1st press, extra virgin olive oil behind the sample bottles. We don't mess around! Do you prefer buttery, creamy or peppery oil?
