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“In the bubble, I had a group of guys that didn’t want to be there,” said Rivers, referring to comments made by former Clipper Lou Williams about the players’ mindset at the time.

“I’ll go out to the garden around 11 a.m. on a Saturday and get so absorbed that, all of a sudden, it’s 4 p.m. and I’ve been outside all day,” said Lori Basheda, whose cottage garden in Long Beach is a popular stop on the annual Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour May 3-4, which this year includes 49 gardens between Long Beach and San Clemente.

Like most of these tours, the Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour is collecting funds for a community cause.

Mary Lou Heard owned a popular Westminster nursery, Heard’s Country Gardens, that specialized in unusual cottage garden plants.

Heard closed her nursery shortly before she died from cancer in 2002, but her supporters created the Mary Lou Heard Foundation to continue the tours and fundraising in her honor.