Oakland rose garden grateful for Deadheads' help


	Oakland rose garden grateful for Deadheads' help
Lexica
9-21-2009 12:24 PM
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oakland, gardens, gardening, volunteers, altruism
Lexica says:
If you're in Oakland and you've never visited the Rose Garden, it's worth checking out.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/724a5d43-45b5-4281-bd5a-2a731d0c8af4/B666B91A-EB13-400F-9FC3-1F41AF683594/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/21/BAT519NKC0.DTL" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/21/BAT519NKC0.DTL" style="font-size: 11px;">www.sfgate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/21/BAT519NKC0.DTL"><P>Long before Jerry Garcia picked his first 20-minute guitar solo, "deadhead" was something you did to wilting roses. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/21/BAT519NKC0.DTL"><P>So when gardeners at Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden put out the call for volunteer deadhead-ers, they got a bevy of rose enthusiasts, but they also got an eager tribe of pruner-wielding Deadheads.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/21/BAT519NKC0.DTL"><P>"There was a bit of confusion, but it turned out great," said city of Oakland gardener Tora Rocha, who oversees the city-owned 8-acre park off Grand Avenue. "We ended up getting tons of volunteers."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/21/BAT519NKC0.DTL"><P>Now the deadheaders and Deadheads prune side by side at Morcom, the East Bay's oldest and largest public rose garden. 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