By Start your winter garden

Learn about “Starting Your Winter Garden” with Jody Main, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Sept. 8, at Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center, 2225 El Camino Real, Palo Alto.

There are many winter vegetables, herbs and flowers that can be planted before Oct. 15 for bountiful harvests through spring. Learn new ideas about lettuce, spinach, root crop varieties, peas, cilantro, arugula, fennel and edible flowers. Main is the manager of Rosalind Creasy’s test and photo garden and past manager at Hidden Villa’s garden.

Admission is $17. For more information, call 328-6752.

Gallery opens downtown

Galeries Gerard d’Eyagalieres has scheduled its grand opening, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sept. 22, at 164 Main St.

The art gallery, owned by the Pascal Le Menn family of San Jose, features the works of French artist Gerard Ricard d’Eygalieres. The artist, who resides in Provence, paints replicas of works of the old masters - pre-18th century European painters - as well as figurative and abstract art.

King Lear, mayor of Los Altos, will officiate at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.