Home › Friends
Friends & Neighbors

Nobody picnics alone — least of all Dax. The inner circle of Sunshine Vale's champion.
Ruby Bellamy
The glamorous strawberry of Bellamy Boulevard and Dax's duet partner at every festival that'll have them. She calls him "Melon." He calls her "your Berry Highness." Their picnic-meets-sock-hop numbers are legendary; their arguments about whether pie counts as a picnic food are longer.
Marlow Mango
The mango-headed gentleman of cocktails and charm. Marlow runs the lemonade-and-more stand at every Dax picnic and claims he taught Dax everything about hosting. Dax claims Marlow taught him everything about napkins. Both are right.
Georgia Melba
Peach-headed pie-baker of the Pips, supplier of every Great Picnic dessert table since the beginning. Georgia pretends to be exasperated by Dax. Her pie output says otherwise.
Roxa Pitaya
The dragon-fruit socialite who "collects secrets" and somehow knows everyone's picnic RSVP before it's sent. Roxa writes the Vale gossip column; Dax is her favorite subject and her most forgiving reader.
The blanket-weavers
The Sunshine Vale family who raised Dax — not one household but a whole lane of them, who still show up to every picnic with the good blankets and embarrassing sprout stories.
Honorable mentions
- The Keeper of the Wall — walking buddy on the annual hedge circuit.
- The Lemonade Creek swim team — Dax is their loudest (and splashiest) supporter.
- Every sprout in the Vale — his seed-spitting students, all of them.