Your home your garden
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FEATURES 9 Put ‘clean’ into spring cleaning Bay Area campaign offers tips that are good for the home and the Bay 10 Visit seven superb gardens This year’s AAUW tour has something special for everyone 14 The Glass House Tour the big white house off the freeway to travel back in time 18 El Nido is saved San Ramon still to decide location, preservation and future use of historic home 22 The search for greener grass Smaller lawns save water but folks still like the green expanse
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25 Home Grown Some use neighborhood houses for California’s infamous cash crop: marijuana 28 Roller or brush? Applicator matters for your DIY painting project DEPARTMENTS
VIEWS APRIL 2011
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8 Our Views Green grass comes at a cost 21 Kids Update Urban Farmers teach sustainable agriculture by donating fruit trees to schools 26 News Meeting the housing mandate 29 Streetwise Stan asks: What’s been your most fun home improvement project? 30 Goings on
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ON THE COVER This home and garden are dubbed “Elegant Old World” for the 11th annual AAUW Garden Tour on May 6-7 given by the Danville-Alamo-Walnut Creek branch of the American Association of University Women. Photo by Martin Hoffmann Landscape Architecture. Design by Lili Cao.