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Quarryhill Botanical Gardens – Sonoma

$15 for Botanic Gardens Evening of Music Event (Up to $30 Value)

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Plan Be’s American rock tunes serenade ears in an Asian garden draped in fall colors

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  • Expires Sep 17, 2011
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Live music unites people from all walks of life, unlike silence, which only unites librarians and people who crack safes. Bond over shared sound waves with today's Groupon: for $15, you get admission to Music in the Garden at Quarryhill Botanical Gardens in Glen Ellen on Saturday, September 17, from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. (up to a $30 value).

Quarryhill flourishes with a lush landscape of Asian plants documented and collected from the wild, and musicians collected from the surrounding area will create engaging soundscapes that perk up ears and spur feet to dance. Sitting picnic style, music-lovers can sup on home-prepared snacks and wine as they listen to American rock tunes played by Plan Be and admire exotic foliage as it sways in the breeze and begs feebly for a chance to sing. The grounds are open before the 6 p.m. showtime, encouraging garden-goers to wander through Quarryhill’s vibrant plant habitats, crunching through falling red and orange maple leaves and eavesdropping on beds of gossiping lilies.

Quarryhill Botanical Garden

A fire swept through the Mayacamas Mountains foothills in 1964, creating an environment ripe for the knobcone pines that quickly repopulated the land. Four years later, Jane Davenport Jansen purchased more than 40 acres of the nascent thicket, taming it with vineyards planted on the open valley floor. In 1987, she began cultivating a garden along the rocky, steep hillsides, which were pocked with the remains of abandoned rock quarries. Heavy rains and natural infiltration of waters created a group of ponds, creating a serene natural environment that Jansen soon planted with seedlings, flowers, and plants from seeds collected on more than 25 annual Asian expeditions. Until she passed away in 2000, Jansen funded the growth and cultivation of the 25-acre garden, which is now one of the largest collections of scientifically documented, wild-source Asian plants on the continent. Visitors can view the rare plants and vast selection of Asian greenery blossoming from the Glen Ellen countryside as they meander through the gardens during self-led tours.

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The Groupon Guide to: Summer Bugs

When the weather heats up, Mother Nature's pores open to let out all the insects that have been spent the last 9 months feasting on her insides. If you plan on leaving your house this summer, here are some bugs you'll encounter:

Lightning Bugs: Kids love trapping fireflies in mason jars and then burying the lighted jars so worm mommies and worm daddies have enough light to finally read bedtime stories to their worm babies.
Cicadas: The song of the cicada can be heard for miles away if there is a man standing near a horde of them with some sort of sound-amplification device he spent years building.
Ants: These tiny creatures typically show up at picnics to test all your food for poison before you eat it. Remember: "If they end up dead, don't eat that bread. If they're still breathing, time for your feeding."
Bees: Though many scientists have privately admitted that a bee extinction could end the world, publicly they all just seem to publish articles about how cute bees are if you imagine them with no stinger and a human smile.

Can a lightning bug survive in a jar if there is also some lettuce in it?

Quarryhill Botanical Gardens

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    12841 Sonoma Hwy.
    Glen Ellen, California 95442
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