Southbay Botanic Garden: Docent Tours

Back in Jan­u­ary, a por­tal to a new world opened to me. The invi­ta­tion came in the form of an email from Bill Homyak. Bill was invit­ing ener­getic peo­ple who enjoyed plants, birds, or the envi­ron­ment to lead Docent Tours at the South­bay Botan­i­cal Gar­den. Janka and I decided that since we were look­ing into buy­ing a home, this would be a great way to intro­duce our­selves to some of the par­tic­u­lars of landscaping.

Next we met with Richard Zasueta. Richard is a great guy, knowl­edge­able, per­son­able, ener­getic and sin­cere. I have really enjoyed lis­ten­ing and talk­ing with him. He has taught us so much about the place we live and how to bet­ter coop­er­ate with our envi­ron­ment. Be it a mat­ter of soil, cli­mate, or biol­ogy, gen­er­ally there will be a com­pro­mise that can bring har­mony to the sit­u­a­tion. Richard seems to be able to ask ques­tions that lead you to that har­mony. Richard helped Janka and I pre­pare and facil­i­tate a walk of our own. It was a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence that we can’t wait to par­tic­i­pate in again.

Recently, Kay Smith gave an infor­ma­tive and well laid-out walk dis­cussing the Cit­rus and Fruit trees. Whether it was the aro­matic leaves of the All­spice tree or var­i­ous ways indi­vid­u­als use the shoots, leaves and fruit of the Plan­tain plant, Kay always gave a bit of infor­ma­tion that was both inter­est­ing and use­ful. Whether you facil­i­tate a Docent Tour or par­tic­i­pate in one, they are a great way to meet and min­gle with won­der­ful peo­ple from the com­mu­nity (Pic­tures Here).

Walks are free ($3 sug­gested dona­tion) and require no reser­va­tion. Click for more Info!

A great intro­duc­tion to the South Bay Botanic Gar­den Sat­ur­day Sept. 11th 9:00 am to 3 pm