Spring in the Foothills
I love spring, while I say that about every season (so many things to do in the summer, fall and winter in our community), one of the things I love about this time of year are the flowers and the smell of spring. So if you’re a flower happy person here are a few ideas on ways to get out and “smell the roses.”
- Check out the tulips at the Crystal Hermitage Gardens at Ananda. Open Saturdays and Sundays through April, the gardens showcase over 13,000 tulips.
- Soropotimist International Garden Tour is coming May 17th and 18th, $20 in advance, 10am-4pm, rain or shine. Click here, here or here for photos from previous years.
- Buttermilk Bend wildflower hikes are every Saturday and Sunday mornings at 11am down at Bridgeport, along the South Yuba River through mid-May. If you’ve never been down there now is the time of the year to go. Click here, here and here for previous Outside Inn blog posts with more photos.
- Take a workshop at Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply
- Want flowers every week, but don’t want to grow them? Sign up for a flower CSA, Soil Sisters and Mountain Bounty Farm offer weekly flowers.
- Check out the dogwoods around downtown Nevada City
- Daffodil Run in Penn Valley, Sunday, April 13th
© 2014 InnSide Nevada City, Photos by G Aronow Photography and Erin Thiem
We’re doing BOTH the tulips AND the wildflowers on Sat. My friend is from the Bay Area so I’m making sure she, and her 3 kids, get a full dose of our outdoor beauty. Where should we all go for dinner when we get back?
So many great options, tell your friend when she comes to the Inn to check out our basket of menus in the office.
The tulips at Ananda are something not to be missed! But we are very lucky to have lots of wild flowers around – even if a lot of them are very tiny and not as showy as, say, CA poppies.
Thanks Ingrid, so many great opportunities, but good to hear you’re voting for the the tulips too.
One of my favorite times of year here.
We went to the tulips this past weekend – absolutely spectacular! And we’ve been frequenting the South Yuba River. Thank you for posting all the beautiful photos of our area!