State Capitol is getting a garden, too

It seems everyone is getting into gardens. First lady Michelle Obama held a groundbreaking Friday for a White House Kitchen Garden, and California first lady Maria Shriver announced Tuesday that a similar garden would be planted on the Capitol Park grounds in Sacramento.

Shriver's office is still working out details, but the 800-square-foot "demonstration garden" will be on the east side of the Capitol and will be planted in May. It will replace an existing flower bed. "We're going to see how that will work. If it's successful we'll talk about expanding it," said Francisco Castillo, Shriver's spokesman. He said it would not be like the "huge" garden planted at San Francisco's Civic Center last year.

Click here to read the entire article by Wyatt Buchanan in the San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, March 25, 2009