Arboretum continues Thursday gardening series

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



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 be plenty of time for questions! Bob is professor emeritus of landscape architecture 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

Phone: 626.821.4624

www.arboretum.org