In time for the impending holiday season, the first annual RANCHO REUBIDOUX GARDEN BAZAAR takes place the first weekend in November. Mark your calendars for Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at Reuben and Paul’s Rancho Reubidoux in Riverside. The Rancho will be opening its coffers, er, garage, and putting on the block all manner of garden gew-gaw … this is a great opportunity for readers to snatch up some good ol’ rustic/industrial/hispano-grunge/Rancho style straight from the source! But, wait, there’s lots more! Here’s the run-down, keyed to the illustration above:

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Culled from my own collections, I’ll be offering rough’n’rusty goodness, including containers, artwork and even a couple of items created especially for the sale … See something you like that doesn’t have a price tag? Let’s talk!

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Down-the-way neighbor, and fellow succulent maven, Bonnie Reynolds (click here), has gathered kitschy vintage ceramic containers and turned them into whimsical mini-gardens… but that’s not all: she’s also creating stacked colored glass ‘totems’! (Bonus: Master gardener husband, Bruce, is building birdhouses.)

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Recent local find, Vickie Perez, will be offering an assortment of her trademark rusted (and rustic) succulent container gardens … She’s been on the hunt for unusual containers ever since I asked her to participate in the sale, and if I know her, she’s come up with some clever — and amazing — goodies! (Click here for memory refreshment)

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Lastly, local succulent propagator/dealer, Mike Dignan, will be supplying a truckload of amazing specimens, picked just for the Rancho’s Bazaar. You can look forward to terrific juicy leaf examples to go with your new pots and containers … Need more? He’s at the downtown Riverside Farmer’s Market every Saturday, check him out!

Here’re the particulars:

RANCHO REUBIDOUX GARDEN BAZAAR

November 5th and 6th, 10am to 4pm.;

4380 Isabella St., Riverside CA 92501

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