San Mateo Florist & Gifts, Inc

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San Mateo Florist & Gifts, Inc

Address:

2341 S El Camino Real

City:

San Mateo

State:

California

Zip Code:

94403

Phone number:

(650) 574-7227

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Wildflowers are starting to bloom. Here’s where to see them in the Bay Area and California - San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco County line has provided excellent diversity in a year where explosive blooms are less common, said Carla Schoof at San Mateo County Parks. At San Bruno Mountain, more than 15 species were identified last week, she said, including California poppy, lupine, blue dicks, fiddleneck, Douglas iris and Indian paintbrush, but also wallflower, yellow rocket, sun cups and footsteps of spring. Edgewood County Park in Redwood City has also provided a good sprinkling of color, Schoof said. In the past week, rangers identified Henderson’s shooting star, California manroot, California poppy, Fremont’s death camas, Pacific hounds’ tongue, warrior’s plume and tomcat clover. Marin County In northwest Marin, the Douglas iris blooms can be a showstopper, and the best bets are around Limantour Beach at Point Reyes National Seashore and Tomales Bay State Park. “We’re currently enjoying the purple pops of Douglas iris,” State Park Ranger Nick Turner said. At Point Reyes, the Chimney Rock Headland can be legendary — 90 species of wildflowers can provide a coronation of spring. But winds out of the northwest and warm temperatures faded the bloom. Chimney Rock and the nearby Point Reyes Lighthouse are still enough of a draw that the Park Service is enforcing a visitor quota on weekends past the turnoff at Drakes Beach Road. At Marin County Parks, the best prospects are at Loma Alta, Baltimore Canyon, Ring Mountain and Mount Burdell, Passantino said. Ring Mountain Preserve, off Paradise Drive in Corte Madera overlooking the Tiburon shore, can be spectacular, she said. “Expanses of goldfields, tidy tips and other early bloomers make for a spring classic,” Passantino said. “The multicolored flowers provide a foreground for spectacular views of the bay.” East Bay hills Hikers at Mount Diablo State Park have been sharing their wildflower sightings through the Mount Diablo Interpretive Association. Pockets of California poppies are often sighted along North Gate Road and Summit Road. The vicinity of Murchio Gap, accessed from Eagle Peak Trail or Bald Ridge Trail, often has the widest variety. Blooms include poppies, silver lupine, Pacific pea, periwinkle and larkspur. Across the 75 parks in the East Bay Regional Park District, the best for wildflowers are Black Diamond, Anthony Chabot, Sunol and the Briones-to-Diablo Trail. Of these, Black Diamond Regional Preserve, south of Highway 4 near Pittsburg, ranks No. 1 — the Stewartville Trail can be one of the best shows around in early April. Lupine, paintbrush, Ithuriel’s spear, blue dicks and owl’s clover are among the sightings. “Wildflowers are out and seem to be close to normal, even with the dry year,” said Dave Mason at park headquarters. “April is the best time year to see wildflowers in regional parks.” Santa Clara County This has been a good spring for yellow mustard and California poppies across the foothills above Santa Clara Valley. At headquarters for Santa Clara County Parks, Tamara Clark suggested Calero, Santa Teresa, Coyote Lake and Grant County parks. Every April, a wild card is Almaden Quicksilver County Park, south of San Jose. The Mine Hill Trail can be a spectacular show, and early April can be best for monkey flower. Other common early arrivals can include lupine, poppies, buttercup and if you’re lucky, shooting stars.

Carl Jones, Laurel School's man of many hats, dies at 62 - The Almanac Online

Fran Corbit, his mother Mary Moore Madison, and his siblings. The Feb. 14 memorial was held at Skylawn Memorial Park in San Mateo. In lieu of flowers, his family requests that donations be made to the Nine Lives Foundation in Redwood City, a nonprofit cat rescue organization. --- • Sign up for Almanac Express to get news updates. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Or show your support for local journalism by subscribing. ...

Flowers bloom at gallery, courtesy of Linda Salter

Salter has exhibited at community college art shows, Avenue 25 Gallery in San Mateo, Esalen Institute in Big Sur, and the Museum Studios Gallery in Burlingame. She also has a background as an executive in higher education. Salter served as president of Skyline College in San Bruno and chancellor of West Valley-Mission Community College District in Santa Clara County. More recently, Salter has studied with artists who teach at local colleges, as well as Gage Academy in Seattle, Scottsdale Artists' School, and classical ateliers in the Bay Area. Salter currently resides in San Mateo and has an art studio at Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica. The Portola Art Gallery is located at the Allied Arts Guild at 75 Arbor Road in Menlo Park. The work will be on display every Monday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit the gallery website at portolaartgallery.com. ...

Bay Area's big Flower & Garden Show at a new venue this year

After 10 years in San Mateo, the Bay Area’s big annual springtime gardening extravaganza, the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, is returning to the Cow Palace in Daly City.From April 4-8, visitors will find full-size showcase gardens, landscape designs and hundreds of vendors and experts. The 75-plus seminars and workshops will focus on such varied topics as edible gardens, new plants for our region, old-world florals for today, bonsai and ikebana, designing with palms and vertical gardening.New this year will be Patio Living and TableScapes idea centers. Returning favorites include the Plant Market and the Marketplace of gardening gear.The 14 showcase gardens are being created by such Bay Area designers and landscapers as Western Gardens Nursery (Pleasanton), Moon Rox Studio (Dublin), Gomes Nursery (Oakland), Cummings Landscape (Byron), The Waterfall Guy (Menlo Park), Connie’s Pond and Koi (Castro Valley), Tropical Gardens (Sunnyvale), Dells Ivy Acres (Sunol), Bay Area Waterscape (Walnut Creek),...

From flowers to housing: Family-owned Ah Sam property for sale in San Mateo

Samantha Weigel/Daily JournalA new housing proposal is anticipated for the 2.34-acre Ah Sam property along El Camino Real in San Mateo, which the family-owned florist recently been listed for sale. A long-standing family-run florist is planning to hop aboard the push for transit-oriented housing developments by selling an underutilized parcel abutting the Caltrain line. Owners of Ah Sam Florist are looking to sell their nearly 2.34-acre property at 2645 S. El Camino Real in San Mateo, and a mixed-use housing proposal is expected to follow. Zoned transit-oriented development and within the rail corridor, the site just north of 27th Avenue could have around 160 housing units and at least 8,000 square feet of commercial space, said Bruce Paris, first vice president with CBRE, which is listing the property. “Transit-oriented development is the hot button for a reason. To be able to use the transit corridor, with an electrified or more efficient Caltrain, is really the smartest thing we can do,” Paris said. The site stretches to the train tracks just west of the massive Bay Meadows... (San Mateo Daily Journal)