California Gardening: Time to whine about the heat again!, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Hot here too. It was in the 80s here which is so hot for here. I so need to water but I hurt my leg which is killing me at the moment so I am not going out there. I have A/C too but I am still whining.

I went out to lunch with a friend and toured a garden up in the hills and was so miserable. It is so dry all over. The garden I went to was at the Gomes home as in Gomes Nursery. The Gomes are the family who used to do the Macy's Easter Show in the SF store.

Mr. Gomes showed me pics of the Oakland Garden Shows from years past where his and his father's displays dominated the show. Puts the SF Flower and Garden Show to shame. I think the shows were in the 50s. The senior Mr. Gomes is dead and his son (the man I visited) is in his mid 80s, such a delightful man. His son is running the nursery now.

The view across his backyard and from all the Eastern windows across the back of his house was just amazing.