The Theodore Payne Nursery Fall Festival and Plant Sale will take place from Friday, October 13 through Sunday, October 15. The hours are 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, daily. Admission and valet parking are free.

Throughout Fall Festival, members are entitled to a 15% disount on plants and nonmembers to a 10% discount. Everyone gets a once-a-year 10% discount on all seeds!

Not only is Fall Festival a chance to shop an expanded selection of California native plants and seeds at special prices, it is also a great opportunity to check out some fun vendors selling food, garden goodies, honey and more and to take advantage of our free workshops. Each one is 30 minutes long and they're all listed below. Unless otherwise noted, please gather for workshops in the Sycamore Grove.

Also of note during the Fall Festival: a reception at 2 pm on Saturday to meet the artists showing their work in the gallery and a signing of the new book: “Care & Maintenance of Southern California Native Plant Gardens” by two of the authors at 1pm on Sunday.

Friday, October 13 - Vendors: Auntie Em's Kitchen & Big "T" Honey. 10:00-10:30 am - Shrub and Perennial Pruning Workshop with TP Nursery Manager and Plant Ecologist Holliday Wagner. 11:00-11:30 am - Fragrant Native Plants and Hydrosols Workshop with Landscape Designer and TP Board Member Stephanie Wilson Blanc. 12:00-12:30 pm - Water Discussion with Crescenta Valley Water District (meet in education center – go through nursery past the tree yard and head left).

Saturday, October 14 - Vendors: Auntie Em's Kitchen, Pot-ted garden gifts, Big "T" Honey and Wild Birds Unlimited. 11:00-11:30 am - Planting Natives Workshop with TP Board President John Wickham. 12:00-12:30 pm – “Bees in Your Bonnet” with David Cain of Big “T” Honey. 1:00-1:30 pm - "Kill Your Lawn:" Presentation on Creating Bird Habitat in Your Yard with Garry George of the LA Audubon Society (meet in education center – go through nursery past the tree yard and head left). 2:00-2:30 pm - Artists' Reception (library).

Sunday, October 15 - Vendor: Auntie Em's Kitchen. 10:00-10:30 am - Planting Natives Workshop with TP Board President John Wickham. 11:00-11:30 am - Bird ID Workshop with TP webmasters Ken and Rhonda Gilliland. 12:00-12:30 pm – Seed Collection Workshop with TP Nursery Manager and Plant Ecologist Holliday Wagner. 1:00-2:00 pm – Book Signing of “Care & Maintenance of Southern California Native Plant Gardens” with two of the authors: Bart O’Brien and Ellen Mackey. 2:00-2:30 pm - Tree Pruning Workshop with Certified Arborist and Oak Specialist Gary Knowlton.

Even though you can visit our retail California native plant nursery (the ONLY of its kind in LA County) year round, we're giving you plenty of additional incentives for coming to see us during Fall Festival

First and foremost, plants from the one gallon size and up will be discounted: 15% to our members and 10% to nonmembers.

Secondly, our inventory will be bursting with plenty of the must haves: Trichostema lanatum (woolly blue curls), Salvia apiana (white sage), Fremontodenron and more.

Thirdly - and perhaps most enticing for some - we're excited to offer special plants that aren't always in stock here: Rosa minutifolia (small leaved rose), Malus fusca (Oregon crab apple), Quercus berberidifolia (scrub oak), Lilium pardalinum ssp. wigginsii (Wiggin's lily), Salvia pachyphylla and Lobelia cardinalis

If plants are what you're after, we've got 'em! But keep in mind that they might go fast. We can't promise they'll last!

Thanks to resident TP California native bulb enthusiast and Board President John Wickham, we will be selling the following interesting and hard to find bulbs in the bookstore during Fall Festival.

Allium unifolium (single leaf onion), Brodiaea californica (California brodiaea), Brodiaea elegans (harvest/elegant brodiaea), Calochortus splendens (splendid mariposa), Calochortus uniflorus 'Cupido', Camassia quamash, Camassia quamash 'Orion', Camassia quamash quamash 'White', Dichelostemma capitatum (wild hyacinth), Dichelostemma capitatum 'Anacapa' (wild hyacinth 'Anacapa'), Dichelostemma congestum, Dichelostemma ida-maia (firecracker flower), Dichelostemma selection 'Pink Diamond', Lillium pardalinum (leopard lily), Lillium pardalinum giganteum, Lillium parryi, Lillium wigginsii, Triteleia 'Corrina', Triteleia 'Queen Fabiola', Triteleia 'Rudy', Triteleia ixioides scabra 'Starlight', Triteleia peduncularis

Volunteers help make Fall Festival run smoothly. If you've had experience volunteering with us in the past (writing up sales slips or giving out information), we need you again.

We're looking for 1 or 2 people to staff an information table at the entrance to the sales yard. This is a fun job that involves talking with the public and helping them get to where they want to go. The table will have some handouts and other information for customers.

Volunteers are also needed throughout Fall Festival to write up sales slip for customers. It is fast-paced at times and requires a good sense of humor.

All interested parties should contact Carmen at: 818.768.1802. We will feed all volunteers! Come join the Fall Festival fun!

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