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

www.arboretum.org

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

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.

Spring 2012 Classes -- Time to enroll!!

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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

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

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.

New 3-Course Series in Arboriculture

Certified Arborists are in demand, by public agencies and in private practice.  Start now, and by next September, you could be licensed as a Certified Arborist!!