HOME FRONT HOME FRONT (February 18, 2005)

BLAH TO BEAUTIFUL . . . Interior designer and Palo Alto Weekly columnist Kit Davey will teach a class on "Room Re-Design: Take Your Home from Blah to Beautiful in Eight Hours or Less" on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 7 to 9 p.m. at Foothill College, Room 6506, 12345 Moody Road in Los Altos Hills. Emphasis is on redecorating without buying new furnishings. Fee is $35, plus a $7 materials fee payable that night (and $2 in quarters for parking). For information, contact Foothill-DeAnza Community Education at (408) 864-8817.

WINTER-BLOOMING SHRUBS . . . Garden designers Connie Lefkowits and Laurie Calloway will teach a class on "Winter-Blooming Shrubs" on Saturday, Feb. 26, from 9 to 11 a.m. at Gamble Garden Center Carriage House, 1431 Waverley St., Palo Alto. Fee is $25 for non-members, $20 for members. For information, call Gamble Garden at (650) 329-1356 or e-mail admin@gamblegarden.org.

GROW YOUR OWN . . . Foundation for Global Community's Valley of the Heart's Delight and Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center are co-sponsoring a "Grow Your Own" conference for home food gardeners who want to learn more about organic methods tomorrow, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The conference is at the Sunnyvale Community Center, Senior Center, 550 E. Remington Drive, Sunnyvale. Cost is $40. For information, call Susan Osofsky at (650) 328-7756 ext. 629 or e-mail sosofsky@globalcommunity.org or visit Common Ground, 559 College Ave., Palo Alto.

THOUSANDS OF BLOOMS . . . Blossoming flowers may be viewed at the San Francisco Peninsula Camellia Society Annual Show and Rare Plant Auction tomorrow, 12:30-4:30 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 20, noon-4 p.m., at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The rare plant auction will be held Saturday at 3:30 p.m. The show will be at the County Fair Building, SF Botanical Garden at Strybring Arboretum, 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way. For information, visit www.camelliaspcs.org.

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