9:30am - 12:00 pm

Palm Room

Spring Garden Talks with Lili Singer

Events  

Thursday Garden Talks with Lili Singer
SPRING 2013: 8 Thursdays, March 14 – May 2
9:30am–Noon / Palm Room
$100 for the series, $20 per class / Reservations or you may pay at the door

Information and registration: 626.821.4623 or jill.berry@arboretum.org; pre-registration required for field trips.


March 14    Journey to Your Garden with Marilee Kuhlmann
Observing gardens and natural landscapes as you travel provides a special sense of place and wonder, as you witness people, plants, land forms  and animals adapting to their own situations. All inspire and help you visualize what a garden can provide. This “vacation through garden design” moves viewers from gorgeous travel photos to images of gardens the speaker has created. Marilee is a Los Angeles-based landscape designer (www.comfortzonesgardendesign.com ). Her sustainable ocean-friendly gardens are sensitive to both the environment and her clients’ unique needs and styles.

March 21    Field Trip to North Campus Garden, Natural History Museum of LA County, and Exposition Park Rose Garden, 10:00am-noon   
Celebrate the start of spring with a private pre-formal-opening visit to the Natural History Museum’s new 3.5- acre North Campus Gardens at the Natural History Museum, designed by Mia Lehrer and Associates. Our tour guides, Director Carol Bornstein and Head Gardener Richard Hayden, will explain the history and educational mission of this amazing urban habitat garden and living laboratory. Next, we’ll head due east to the historic 7-acre Exposition Park Rose Garden to view thousands of freshly pruned bushes and early bloomers! Reservations Required.

March 28     The Engelmann Oak Project with Jim Henrich 
The Arboretum’s Engelmann oak conservation management program is an ongoing project that aims to preserve and protect this rare natural grove of Quercus engelmannii, a beautiful native tree also known as Engelmann, Pasadena or Mesa Oak. This presentation provides insights into the program’s accomplishments since its inception in 2010. Much of the program takes place in the Engelmann Oak grove on Tallac Knoll; please wear footwear appropriate for walking. James E. Henrich is curator of living collections at the Arboretum.

April 4        Hollywood at the Arboretum with Vince Foley, plus Behind-the-Scenes-of-the-Scenes with Sandy Snider 
Enjoy a chronological story of all manner of filming on Arboretum grounds, from pre-Arboretum (1936) beginnings to the present. Included are images of film, television, doses of commercials and even music videos—a compendium of images from the Arboretum’s archives. Vince is a longtime member of the Arboretum volunteer organization, Los Voluntarios, and member of the group’s Speakers’ Bureau. The program ends with “insider” stories and reminiscences from Sandy Snider, retired Arboretum historian and 35-year employee. She’ll share mishaps, near horrors and tales of friendly actors, too! Don’t miss this fun presentation!

April 11        Design Like a Pro: Demystifying the Art of Garden Design with Billy Goodnick  
This entertaining slide-based lecture (with ample time for Q&A) explores the basic process that a professional designer employs to create beautiful, useful, sustainable gardens. Topics include understanding your site and personal needs, selecting a style, developing a design, building a plant palette and arranging plants for a pleasing composition—all through a filter of planet-friendly practices. Billy is an award-winning Santa Barbara-based landscape architect, writer and speaker (www.billygoodnick.com ), and the author of soon-to-be-published Yards: Turn Any Outdoor Space into the Garden of Your Dreams. Expect lots of valuable information wrapped in an upbeat, inventive delivery.

April 18        Handmade Garden Projects with Lorene Edwards Forkner
Learn clever ways to beautify your garden from a speaker with a designer’s eye and keen sense of conservation and thrift, an engaging speaker whose approach to making gardens is rooted in childhood outdoor play. Lorene is an author, lecturer, gardener/cook (www.plantedathome.com ) and the newly appointed editor of Pacific Horticulture magazine (www.pacifichorticulture.org ). She will discuss and sign her best-selling book, Handmade Garden Projects: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creative Garden Features, Containers, Lighting & More. 

April 25        Field Trip: Nursery Hopping off the I-210, Bountiful Gardens & Lincoln Avenue Nursery, 9:30am-noon
First stop on our second spring excursion is Bountiful Gardens in Lakeview Terrace, known for flowering trees, unusual perennials, organic heirloom vegetables and herbs, drought-tolerant sedums, topiaries, espaliers and plants sculpted into unusual shapes! Nursery owner David Diaz is a local favorite, having worked for both Burkhard and Hortus nurseries. Next we visit historic Lincoln Avenue Nursery, established in 1903 by the Takamura family and given new life in 2003 by its second owner Ramon Franco. The nursery offers a wide range of ornamental and edible plants, plus garden supplies, seed, containers and garden art. Reservations Required.

May 2        Hum on In: Attracting Tiny Birds to Your Garden with Lili Singer
Hummingbirds are constant jewels of the Southern California landscape, encouraged by our friendly climate and diverse array of beautiful garden plants. Learn which species of hummingbirds are most likely to visit your garden, as well as which trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals and succulents provide the best nesting materials, nesting sites and food sources for adult hummers and their young. Lili is a horticulturist, garden writer and educator who is very fond of hummingbirds. She coordinates the Thursday Garden Talks at the Arboretum.

• March 14, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00 PM

  March 21, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00PM

  March 28, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00PM

  April 04, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00PM

  April 11, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00PM

  April 18, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00PM

  April 25, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00PM

  May 02, 2013

  Thursday

  9:30AM - 12:00PM