Monday, July 16, 2012

Volunteer for Glendale Narrows Riverwalk Project

Plant shrubs & trees Saturday, August 11th, 2012, at the Intersection of Paula Ave & Garden Street in Glendale from 8am - 12pm. Sign up at http://www.northeasttrees.org/

Monday, June 25, 2012

Scientific Illustration and Plant Identification


Held at locations in and around the Los Angeles area, this course teaches plant identification and scientific illustration of plants, including essential plant form and part characteristics and illustration techniques using lead pencils. Working with an established plant pallet chosen by the instructor, students learn how to use plants and other garden elements to create a particular aesthetic.

Taught by David Squires.

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Soil, Soils Reports, Remedies, and Plant Survival

Nothing to do this weekend? Brush up on soils in our Saturday workshop

Get a clear perspective on the business of growing.

Soil, Soils Reports, Remedies, and Plant Survival offers a solid foundation or refresher for anyone involved in the care and feeding of plants.

Join us Sat, Jun 16, 9am-2pm, in Westwood.

You’ll learn:
·         How to test for soil problems
·         Where to take tests
·         How to read a soils report
·         Ways to remedy soil problems

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

International Speaker Series: Cuban Permaculturist – Roberto Pérez Rivero



Start: June 20, 2012 6:00 pm
End: June 20, 2012 8:00 pm
Organizer: ULI Orange County/Inland Empire
Phone: (714) 262-6217
Email: orangecounty@uli.org
Venue: Peter & Mary Muth Interpretive Center

Phone: (949) 923-2290
Address: 2301 University Drive, Newport Beach, CA, 92660, United States

The Urban Land Institute’s OC/IE Sustainable Communities Initiative Council, is pleased to present Roberto Pérez Rivero of the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation for Nature and Humanity and featured in the film: “The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil.”

Roberto Pérez Rivero is the Environmental Education and Biodiversity Conservation Program Director of the Cuban NGO, the Antonio Núñez Jiménez Foundation for Nature and Humanity www.fanj.org, the oldest environmental organization in Cuba. Roberto has also served as their Project Officer on Urban Agriculture and Environmental Programs, Publishing Editor, and Teacher of Environmental Education, Sustainable Agriculture and Permaculture. He has a Graduate Degree in Biology from the University of Havana and also studied Community-based Resource Management at the University of St. Francis Xavier, Nova Scotia, Canada. Since 1999, Roberto has traveled extensively in Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and the United States, presenting Cuba’s approach to sustainable living in the face of declining petroleum and other nonrenewable resources.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Chris Rosmini speaking on Great Garden Design

Southern California Horticulture Society's next meeting features Guest Presenter Chris Rosmini speaking about Great Garden Design.

Join them Thursday Night, June 14th, at 7:30pm at the Witherbee Auditorium at the Los Angeles Zoo.

This event is free to SCHS members and $5 for non-members. Children under 18 are free. Ample onsite free parking is available.

From SCHS Website: Chris Rosmini, 1992 SCHS Horticulturist of the Year, is one of the top garden designers practicing in Los Angeles today. Her skilled work harmoniously combining climate appropriate plants with hardscape elements (paved surfaces, containers, water features, etc.) is renowned.

Chris studied the classics at UCLA in the 1960s, but found her passion for plants and honed her skill as a designer in the 1970s. Chris is a collector of fine plants and of many objects that interest her. She’s been gardening her home ground since 1971.

For those of you who keep back issues of journals (or have access to them at a library or friend’s home), you can get a preview of some of Chris’ work at her own garden in Garden Design 17 (1): 6, 76-83, 94. February-March 1998. The article, titled “Inside Out,” was written by Susan Heeger and the photographs are by Susan Seubert. Unfortunately, this piece does not seem to be on the web. One of my favorite quotes from that article is, “My approach is similar indoors and out. I like to collage related things with small gradations of disparity. Same forms, slightly varied colors; or the same colors, but different shapes. The closer you get, the more you see, until you’re lost in the experience.”

In March of this year, Chris and John C. MacGregor IV led a SCHS field trip to Judge Cynthia Hall’s garden in Pasadena. Chris wrote an article that told the story of the development of that beautiful garden in Pacific Horticulture 61 (1): 30-36. January-February 2000. She wrote, “ One of the particularly satisfying things about designing gardens for other people is that, in most instances, I get to consider the project as a whole, from the beginning. I can plan the overall structure, the hardscape and the planting as a more or less coherent design; manage the construction; and plant it as a continuous, if sometimes rather drawn-out process.” However, this project was different, in that it evolved in stages, like most gardeners’ gardens.

Chris will be taking us on an adventure through a selection of her garden design work, both past and present. As such, her presentation will be slides (not computer images!) as these best capture the breadth of her work.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Gardening's Surprising Health Benefits

Photo courtesy of USDA NRCS

Connecting to nature can also mean reducing the risk of heart disease and diabetes, as well as a better sex life


By Shelley Sparks | May 14, 2012 | Nextavenue.org

Former Instructor, Shelley Sparks, recently published an article about the wonderful health benefits of gardening. Read through the article to hear some amazing stories of gardening healing individuals both physically and mentally, and all the ways it can keep you healthy!
Get out there and get Gardening!

Thursday, May 10, 2012

New Marketing Flyers!

Soon to be seen around town are our new beautiful Horticulture & Gardening brochures!

Stop by UCLA Extension main building and pick one up or call 310-825-9414 and we will mail one to you.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Anita Baldwin Was in Love With . . . Really? (And other juicy things you don’t know about the L.A. County Arboretum)



TOUR AND TALK
Saturday
April 28th, 2012

10:30 am - 2:00 pm
LA County Arboretum
301 North Baldwin Avenue
Arcadia, CA 91007
Detail, L.A. Co Arboretum   Photo by Paula Panich
The historic core of the Arboretum is of one of Southern California’s most significant and multi layered cultural landscapes, home 2,500 years ago to a native village. Hugo Reid was one of the early characters here, and when the property passed into the hands of “Lucky” Baldwin, he brought a group of newly freed African Americans to the property.

Historic buildings you see were designed for Baldwin by Albert Austin Bennett; the work of Edward Huntsman Trout is also in evidence. Mitchell will talk about the past and will describe plans for the future. (Don’t forget to ask him about Gilligan’s Island.) After lunch, Susan will present some of the materials relating to this astonishing ongoing landscape narrative.

Ask them about Anita Baldwin’s fifty-room house. And about Maynard Dixon (Dorothea Lang’s first husband!), along with the much decorated World War I veteran and silent film actor, Buffalo Child Long Lance. (It’s ninety-year-old gossip, but still.)

Register today as space is limited
to register: click the REGISTER button on the right

Cost: $20 members; $25 nonmembers

For further information call Marlise Fratinardo at (310) 266-3358 or email: toursandtalks@cglhs.org


UPCOMING EVENTS

September 8 & 9, 2012 Annual CGLHS Conference, Sonoma, Calif.

Saturday, October 13, 2012 Historic Designed Gardens of Pasadena



Tuesday, March 13, 2012

SEEDS: LOCAL & GLOBAL AT SMC MARCH 27

Santa Monica College is pleased to present a free lecture, “Seeds: Local and Global,” by garden master and author David King on Tuesday, March 27 in Humanities & Social Science Lecture Hall 165 on the main campus, 1900 Pico Blvd.
         King is the founder of the Seed Library of Los Angeles and garden master of The Learning Garden at Venice High School. An engaging and popular garden speaker, he is also a noted garden blogger and author of the forthcoming book, “Growing Food in Southern California: What to Do and When to Do It.”
         The Seed Library of Los Angeles was established to facilitate the growth of open-pollinated seeds among residents of the Los Angeles basin. The library is building a seed collection and repository, educating members about the practice of seed saving, and creating a local community of seed-saving gardeners
         King’s talk is sponsored by the SMC Global Citizenship Council, SMC Center for Environmental Studies and SMC Club Grow.
         For information, please call 310-434-3911.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Save the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden at UCLA

URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED TO SAVE AN IMPORTANT GARDEN!!  UCLA is in the process of listing for sale the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden, a 1-1/2 acre hillside garden that was donated to the University in 1964 by the Carter family.  It is among the largest and most significant private residential Japanese-style gardens built in the United States in the post-WWII period.  For more information and a link to a letter to express your concerns to the Chancellor, please click here  hannahcarterjapanesegarden.com

Friday, January 27, 2012

Free worm composting workshop

Grow Native Nursery Westwood is offering a free workshop on worm composting. The workshop will be held on Sunday, February 12th at 11am. Join Stephen Baldonado, horticulturist, garden designer and longtime worm wrangler to learn about one of the easiest methods for composting fruit and vegetable kitchen and garden scraps in this one-hour workshop.

No yard? No problem! Vermicomposting is perfect for apartment dwellers who want to cut down on their waste stream.

This workshop is free and open to the public. A question and answer session and a tour of the Grow Native Nursery Westwood worm composting system will follow the workshop.

Held in conjunction with the Free Worm Tea Sundays attendees are welcome to take home free worm tea.

For weekend directions to the nursery, please check the GNN Westwood page

For more information please view the event listing

Friday, January 13, 2012

Native Plant Week Symposium

Native Plant Week Symposium Wildflower Show and Plant Sale

Saturday, April 21, 9 am - 4 pm

Sepulveda Garden Center, 16633 Magnolia Blvd., Encino, CA 91436

Free; California Native Plant Society & Theodore Payne Foundation co-sponsors

Contact: 818-881-3706, lacnps@lacnps.org, http://www.lacnps.org/

Speakers, wildflower show, native plants and books for sale, exhibits and demos.