Greer's OC

No one can compete with the Halloween extravaganza that Roger’s Gardens design team puts on each year. It’s the epitome of stylish Halloween décor and spooky surroundings. This year’s debut of the “Blackstone Manor” opens Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and you can visit through Oct. 31.

When you enter the rooms, you’ll feel a slight chill, hear whispering voices, and may see visions of shadows. The spooky experience promises to be a treat for everyone and everything is for sale. Choose from vintage inspired reproductions, lifelike ravens, snakes, spiders and rats; candelabras, skeletons, creepy art, and much more.

Don’t forget, hungry visitors and shoppers at Orange County’s best and most beautiful nursery for design ideas, floral arrangements, plants, interior and exterior furnishings as well as workshops, Food Trucks stop by the Victory Garden Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Visiting Food Trucks include Chomp Chomp Nation, Seabirds, Lobsta, and Kogi BBQ. Open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  Roger’s Gardens is at 2301 San Joaquin Hills Road in Corona del Mar. For more information, call (949)640-5800, or visit http://www.rogersgardens.com/

Art Art Art

Grand Central Art Center kicks off its 2012-2013 season Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m. with a reception for three new exhibitions.– Tony de los Reyes: Border Theory; Constantin Hartenstein: Event Horizon; and Erin Morrison:Meditative Action.

Tony de los Reyes: Border Theory runs through Nov. 14; his paintings combine two “orders” - abstract painting and the border that separates Mexico and the United States. Constantin Hartenstein is an installation and video artist working in Berlin and New York.

His work focuses on displacement, settlement and fast forward consumer culture. Erin Morrison’s paintings range from surrealistic landscape to magic realism. They portray a sense of loss or misunderstanding and the
displacement that comes with living a somewhat nomadic life.

Grand Central Art Center is at 125 N. Broadway in Santa Ana. 714.567.7233.