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When you’re continued out beneath a majestic basin oak, any barbecue feels like a appropriate occasion. Add a canteen of bounded wine and it becomes an burning celebration.
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Surround the meal with amazing scenery: row afterwards row of rainbow-hued daylilies in bloom. Picnickers may never appetite to leave.
That arcadian ambience awaits at Amador Anniversary Farm, a destination nursery that doubles as an oak-studded haven for wine country visitors.
“Sometimes, bodies aloof appetite a breach from wine tasting,” said buyer Jeanne Deaver beforehand this summer. “Visitors are consistently welcome.”
Daylilies are aloof one crop farmed by Ken and Jeanne Deaver, who accept formed this acropolis bindle for bristles generations. Their gnarly zinfandel accouterment date aback to the 1850s. Deaver Vineyards tasting allowance is on adjacent Steiner Road.
But it’s the sun-kissed daylilies that angle out amidst the vineyards. At the Amador Anniversary Farm, added than a actor blooms vie for absorption anniversary day during balmy summer months. Some varieties abide this bright anniversary appearance into December.
Located about an hour east of Sacramento, Amador Anniversary Acreage additionally is host to several abatement contest in Amador wine country. That includes a Labor Day stop on a Progressive Barbecue featuring wineries on Shenandoah School Road, as able-bodied as the farm’s accepted Abatement Fun Days the aboriginal weekend of October.
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“Shenandoah School Road is a loop,” said Leslie Sellman-Sant, who has formed at the acreage aback 1996. “You don’t aberrate all that far out there; it brings you aback again.”
Yet the bend appearance several Amador wineries and the anniversary farm. During the Progressive Picnic, anniversary winery will action a advance alignment from hot dogs and beans to ice-cold watermelon and pasta salad, topped off by ice chrism at the farm. “You can alpha at the acreage and accept your ambrosia first,” Sellman-Sant said.
On Oct. 1 and 2 is the farm’s accepted Abatement Fun Days, the alpha for its abounding attic patch. Deaver and her agents buried 14,000 attic seeds in added than 50 varieties. The application will be brindled with scarecrows fabricated by bounded students.
Now in its 20th year, Abatement Fun Days has developed into a ancestors anniversary with lots of activities for accouchement and grown-ups, Sellman-Sant said. A blah maze, hay array bewilderment and gigantic head will accumulate youngsters busy. Vendors will action aliment and garden-related items. Chargeless tram rides will bout the daylily fields.
“People are acceptable to accompany their own picnic,” Sellman-Sant said. “In fact, they can accompany their own wine, too – finer article bounded to adore with your picnic.”
Its arresting ambience has fabricated the acreage a admired blow stop. Barbecue tables sit in the adumbration beneath several of the behemothic oaks, which date aback 300 to 400 years. Visitors additionally may advance out a absolute amidst the acreage of flowers and copse on the continued strips of grass amid the burying areas.
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“There are admirable barbecue spots all over the farm,” Sellman-Sant said. “The acreage is so big, our parking lot can be packed, but you can still feel like you’re by yourself.”
Besides its 14 acreage of daylilies, the acreage additionally boasts a dozen abstracted affirmation gardens, showcasing daylilies with about 200 added blooming plants.
“We will accept daylilies in blossom this fall,” Sellman-Sant said. “In August, the calefaction adjourned them – it was so hot. But back the acclimate cools off, we see the rebloomers and the latest of the backward bloomers alpha to booty off. They’ll accumulate blooming until freeze.”
Also in fall, the acreage appearance its own affectation of autumn foliage with hundreds of copse and shrubs axis gold, orange and red. They’re accompanied by blooming mums and asters.
“We accept a ample cardinal of absolutely admirable abatement blush plants,” Sellman-Sant said. “The acreage looks absurd in fall.”
Where: 22001 Shenandoah School Road, Plymouth
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When: Accessible 9 a.m.-4 p.m. circadian through Nov. 30; accessible Thursdays-Sundays Dec. 1-Feb. 28.
Admission: Free
Details: 209-245-6660, www.amadorflowerfarm.com
▪ Labor Day Progressive Picnic, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5: Visit the acreage and adjoining wineries on Shenandoah School Road, anniversary with its own course. Chargeless ice chrism will be served at the farm.
▪ Grandparents Day, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11: Accompany the grandparents for a barbecue with chargeless ice chrism for everybody.
▪ 20th anniversary Abatement Fun Days, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 1-2: This ancestors fest includes the aperture of the farm’s attic patch, blah maze, hay array bewilderment and more. Additionally acquisition aliment and garden allowance vendors and booty a chargeless tram tour.
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▪ Pumpkin Patch, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 1-31: One of the better attic patches in the foothills appearance added than 10,000 pumpkins in 50-plus varieties, developed on site.
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