Five private gardens will be open to the public in the “Secret Gardens of Palo Alto” tour to be held Friday and Saturday, April 28-29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 21st annual tour is a benefit for the Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St. in Palo Alto.
The gardens are identified as English Manor, Cosmopolitan, Moroccan Modern, California Lifestyle, and Adapted Traditional. The Adapted Traditional home and garden was originally designed by Birge Clark and Thomas Church on a full acre in the Crescent Park neighborhood. Landscape architect Mary Gordon has worked with the current owners for more than 30 years.
Tour days will include a plant sale, boutique, talks by garden experts and lunch.
Lunch will be served at Gamble Garden from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. Cost is $18 with advance reservations needed. The garden boutique will be stocked with home and garden accessories, gifts for Mother’s Day, and floral motif items. Visitors may leave knives and tools for sharpening while touring the gardens.
Tour tickets are $30 in advance ($25 for Gamble members) and may be purchased at Gamble Garden, 1431 Waverley St. in Palo Alto. The day of the tour, tickets will be $35. For information or to purchase tour or lunch tickets, go to www.gamblegarden.com, or call 329-1356, ext.23.
‘Spring Sounds’
Spring Sounds, a benefit for Adolescent Counseling Services, will be held Saturday, April 22, from 6:30 to 11 p.m., at the Decathlon Club in Santa Clara. Judy Kleinberg, mayor of Palo Alto, will be mistress of ceremonies for the evening that will include dinner, dancing and an auction.Adolescent Counseling Services is celebrating 30 years of service. Funds raised by Spring Sounds will support school counseling, substance abuse treatment, and group home care for at-risk teenagers and their families in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
Tickets to Spring Sounds are $150 each. For more information, call 424-0852 or go to www.acs-teens.org.
‘For the Kids’
A benefit for the Silicon Valley chapter of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society will be held Sunday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Nealon Park, 800 Middle Ave. in Menlo Park.Billed as “FUNdraising For the Kids,” the event will include rides on Old Tom (the Menlo Park Firefighters Association’s vintage fire truck), a jump house, face painting, pinatas, snacks and more.
Admission is free; there will be a charge for some of the activities and for food. Proceeds will support fundraising efforts of four local athletes — Adrianne and Andy Altman, June Pendergrass and Vivian Distler — who are members of the Leukemia Society’s Team in Training program. The program helps individuals with the training needed to compete in athletic contests where participants raise funds to support the fight against leukemia and other blood-related cancers.
For more information, call Vivian Distler, 213-9171.
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