Landscape show in San Francisco - San Francisco Landscape Garden Show

Sunset, April, 1986

Landscape show in San Francisco

"There are no dogmas that are unbreakable --the only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination,' wrote the late landscape architect Thomas Church. This month, at the first San Francisco Landscape Garden Show, you can see what he meant. Twenty-five temporary gardens will be on display April 16 through 20 at Fort Mason. And the American Society of Landscape Architects is offering free walking tours of downtown plazas and corporate gardens.

Planned by Bay Area landscape architects and designers, show gardens range in size from 10 by 10 to 20 by 40 feet and employ a wide variety of materials and concepts. One exhibit focuses entirely on the work of Thomas Church, with a garden based on the San Francisco design pictured above. A representative sampling of his drawings and photographs of finished gardens complete the display.

You can also see the latest gardening tools and horticultural supplies in an area called the Garden Marketplace, an indoor street of booths.

Show hours are 10 to 7. Admission is $5; children 12 and under are free. Proceeds benefit Golden Gate Park.

Noon walking tours start at the following downtown locations: Saturday, April 19, and Monday, April 21: corner of Montgomery and Market Streets; Wednesday, April 23: 101 California Street; Friday, April 25: Sidney Walton Park entrance (Jackson Street between Front and Davis streets).

Photo: Inscribed to client, Thomas Church design--one of many in Fort Mason exhibit--turns city garden into sequence of outdoor rooms defined by planting