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LEIGH KLOCK
STEPHANIE LOPEZ
Realtor®, DRE#01874255
Realtor®, DRE#01370548
925.212.5593
925.932.7329 841 Royal Ann Lane
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Fabulous 2 bedroom 2.5 bath town home in highly desirable Cherrywood. Located across from DeLaSalle High School and around the corner from Trader Joe's! Two bay windows, garage, lots of storage and more! Clubhouse, green space, swimming pool and tennis courts. Don't miss!
Offered at $389,000
www.329AhwaneeLane.com Gorgeous Eagle Peak home! Wonderful 4 large bedrooms, 2.5 baths with chef size kitchen, and huge master suite. Approximately 3,000 sf on a .50 acre premium lot. Live at the top with views, privacy, and trail access.
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Offered exclusively at $875,000
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Completely remodeled 4 bedroom 3 full bath home on a large premium serenity lot! Gorgeous stone counters, high amenity cabinets, stainless appliances in kitchen, updated baths, vaulted ceilings up and down, newer Trane heating/air, light bright and lovely windows that bring in the warm outdoors and upstairs. Mt. Diablo views. Gardener's dream yards.
Offered at $575,000
www.1901CarzinoCt.com Beautiful Expansive Rancher on Clayton Border. 4 bedrooms 4 1/2 baths, 2 masters, 4080 square feet, possible in-law, or au pair set up. Beautifully landscaped lot 29,621 sq. ft. RV parking-Clayton Valley Charter High School!
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Offered at $795,000
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April 25, 2014
Clayton gardens and Concord’s Markham featured on Natives tour Two Clayton gardens and a Concord landmark will be part of the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour, which will take place Sunday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at various locations throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Karen and Jeremy Amos’ garden, as well as Kelly Marshall and Mike Weidner’s garden, will be among the 35 native plant showcase gardens on the free tour. Also featured is Concord’s Markham Arboretum. In the 10th anniversary of the popular self-guided garden tour, visitors have the opportunity to learn how to select and care for California native plants, lower their water bills, design a low-maintenance garden, attract butterflies, birds, and bees, and garden without using pesticides. More than 40 talks will be offered throughout the day. More than 6,000 people are expected to register for this annual event, which will fill up; early registration is suggested to ensure a place. The collection of gardens offered this year range from five-acre lots in the hills to small front gardens in the flats, and from professionally designed gardens to those designed by homeowners. Garden styles run the gamut— from restoration gardens containing local native plants to the horticulturally available suite of natives from throughout California, and to gardens containing a mixture of natives and Mediterranean plants. The Amos’ garden is actually two installments, a 1,500square-foot front yard space and 3,000 square-foot backyard
Courtesy of Bringing Back the Natives
KELLY MARSHALL’S GARDEN IS A COLORFUL ARRAY OF HARDY NATIVES that can take Clayton’s hot summers. The owners recently replaced a water-hogging back lawn with a drought-tolerant meadow of bunchgrasses and flowering native perennials.
garden. The front garden is a terraced slope with a variety of Manzanita’s, California lilac, lots of blue blooming native perennials to bring out the colors of the house. In the back garden a small play structure sits in a colorful meadow of grasses and wildflowers; a wooden boardwalk is bordered by the fragrant lilac verbena, small Pacific reed grass, and its robust cousin, deer grass. In Kelly Marshall and Mike Weidner’s garden, Marshall selected a hardy and colorful array of natives that could take Clayton’s hot summers, added a fountain and strategically placed seating areas and paths, and the front garden became a lovely place enjoyed by everyone in the family, and even the neighbors. Wanting more planting “real estate” and disliking the water-hogging back lawn, she recently convinced Mike to
finally let the lawn go — in its place she created a drought-tolerant meadow of bunchgrasses and flowering native perennials. Meanwhile, the Markham Arboretum is a unique educational garden for the demonstration, collection and preservation of trees and other plants which are adapted to Northern California region. . A companion event, the Native Plant Sale Extravaganza, will take place on Saturday and Sunday, May 3 and 4. This sale features a number of native plant nurseries which carry large quantities of hard-to-find California natives. Admission to the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour is free. Registration will close on April 26 or when the tour is full, whichever comes first. Register or volunteer at www.bringingbackthenatives.net.