Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Arboretum's spring garden talk series starts March 15

The SPRING session of the Thursday Garden Talks with Lili Singer begins on this Thursday, March 15! Hope to see you at the Arboretum! Jill



Thursday Morning Seminars with Lili Singer

Informative gatherings with horticultural specialists – for passionate home gardeners and landscape professionals.



SPRING 2012: 8 Thursdays, March 15 - May 3

9:30 am–Noon

$100 for the series, $20 per class / Payable at the door;

Information and registration: 626.821.4623 or jill.berry@arboretum.org





March 15 Keeping Plants in Containers with Steve Gerischer

Container gardens are fun to create and look fabulous when newly planted. This class explains how to keep your potted plants looking good over time!! Tips on choosing plants, potting them up and ongoing maintenance will be offered, along with a sampling of Steve’s favorite subjects for containers. Steve is the award-winning owner of Larkspur Garden Design and a highly respected teacher on varied subjects related to landscaping in this region. He is president of the Southern California Horticultural Society.


March 22 Living in the Garden, California Style with Laura Morton

This richly illustrated talk will get you thinking differently about your outdoor spaces, describe key factors of good design, and showcase such elements as hardscape, fire, water, dining and play. Laura is an award-winning certified landscape designer. Drawing upon her travels and her training in landscape architecture, photography, jewelry design and horticulture, she designs magical, usable, value-enhancing spaces to be enjoyed year round.



March 29 The Native Garden: No Place Like Home with Lili Singer

Landscaping with natives melds both the art and science of gardening into one balanced beautiful whole. Learn how to select the best California native plants for your garden, get them off to a good start and keep them healthy – so that you and the wildlife that share your landscape will both enjoy our state's floral riches for many years to come. Easy native plants will be highlighted, along with many of the speaker's personal favorites. Lili is an award-winning horticulturist, garden writer and educator. In addition to leading the Thursday Garden Talks at the Arboretum, she is director of special projects and adult education at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants in Sun Valley, CA.



April 5 Life in the Red Hills: A Garden Journey with Rhett Beavers

For the past 12 years, our sage speaker has been hand-building his garden on one of the Echo Park hillsides affectionately known as the Red Hills. His garden preserves open-space connections into Elysian Park and, by the preservation and addition of multiple terraces, captures rainwater and provides level ground for growing drought-tolerant, food and native gardens. This illustrated lecture and discussion explores how urban gardens reflect, connect and influence their neighborhoods and ecologies. Rhett is a CA-licensed landscape architect/planner, lecturer and UCLA Extension instructor. See April 19 for a field trip that stops at Rhett’s garden!



April 12 Native Landscape Design for Home Gardeners with Bob Perry

This illustrated program on principles and processes of landscaping with California native plants includes practical and inspiring ideas for creating a beautiful, sustainable regionally appropriate garden. There will plenty of time for questions! Bob is professor emeritus of landscape architect at Cal Poly Pomona and the author of the invaluable reference Landscape Plants for California Gardens.



April 19 Field Trip: Silver Lake Farms, Silver Lake, and Bonus Garden, Echo Park, 10:00am-1:00pm

Celebrate spring in two unique Los Angeles neighborhoods! We meet at Silver Lake Farms, an innovative organic enterprise smack in the middle of the city. Following an organic gardening class with Owner/Farmer Tara Kolla, we’ll view the compost and compost tea production, seedlings, microgreens, fruit crops and flowers. While in the area, we’ll visit the Echo Park home garden of Landscape Architect Rhett Beavers – a hillside where preservation, water management and open space meet edibles and drought-tolerant plants. Bring a sack lunch, if desired. The tour is self-driven. Carpooling strongly advised. Pre-registration required.



April 26 Field Trip: Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, CSULB, and Rancho Los Alamitos, Long Beach, 9:30am-1:00pm

Our Long Beach adventure begins with a docent-led tour and peaceful stroll through the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, a verdant retreat on the campus of California State University, Long Beach. Next, we’ll enjoy guided tours of the historic gardens and house at Rancho Los Alamitos. The grand landscape, first developed in the 1920s and 1930s by Florence Bixby with guidance from the Olmsted Firm and other notable designers, includes recently restored Native and Friendly gardens. The trip is self-driven. Carpooling encouraged. Pre-registration required. (Approx. $5 parking fee at the Japanese Garden.)



May 3 Rebloom: Gardeners’ Delight, Mother Nature’s Curse with John Schoustra This one’s for plant nuts! Our spring series concludes a tempting talk on reblooming perennials, featuring irises, pelargoniums, daylilies, an agapanthus and a brand-new rose bred just for this region –and all will be available at the plant sale to follow! With a degree in landscape architecture and decades of landscape design/building experience, John is the highly respected owner of Greenwood, a Somis nursery specializing in flowering plants for Southern California’s mediterranean climate.



Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

301 North Baldwin Avenue

Arcadia, CA 91007-2697

www.arboretum.org

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