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Debut of Our Newly Designed Garden for All Seasons

May 03, 2012

 

The Arboretum unveils the newly-designed “Garden For All Seasons,” a food garden demonstrating best practices in water and soil management, integrated pest management, and the latest approaches to growing great fruits and vegetables for Southern California.

Designed in collaboration with Pasadena landscape architects Amy Korn and Matt Randolph, the garden includes a small orchard and vegetable garden with emphasis on outstanding plant choices for Los Angeles area gardens. A garden of solutions, it includes water harvesting and storage, as well as approaches to maximizing space efficiency and production in small spaces. With Phase 1 completed this spring, we look forward to Phase 2 next year that will bring additional plantings, including a beautiful new arbor marking the garden entrance.

kron randolph

Known for combining ecology, art and social sensibility, Matt, a landscape architect, and Amy, principal designer, have a garden design portfolio that includes the Getty Villa in Malibu, The Huntington Library’s Desert Garden master plan in San Marino, the Rancho Los Alamitos restoration in Long Beach, and Caltech’s Linde+Robinson Laboratory for Global Environmental
Science.

Our special thanks to the following for their generous donations of plants, materials and time:

Eagle Rock Backyard Farms, Michael Scott
Exquisite Ponds & Gardens
Ganahl Lumber
Chester Kano
Jose Luis Lara
LA County Parks & Recreation Crafts division
Paul Martin
Monrovia Growers
Papaya Tree Nursery, Peter Silber
Guillermo Najar
Rainbow Heights Nursery, Patrice Dreckmann
Sierra Madre Garden Club
Thompson Building Materials
Arboretum staff

Online Library Exhibits

May 23, 2012

News from the Library

February, 2012

Treasures of the Rare Book Collection - Plants of Mediterranean Climate Areas

AmaryllisThe Arboretum Library houses a Rare Book collection featuring unique plant and historical materials going back to the 1500's. This exhibition highlights plant images from those books and connects them to actual species currently available for viewing at the Arboretum. If you have a smartphone, you can take this tour in real time. The Rare Book Room is not open to the public, so here is an excellent opportunity to see some beautiful botanical illustrations from days past. You can view the exhibit here.

November, 2011

Early Fruit & Vegetable Seed Catalogs of Southern California: 1888 - 1945

The Arboretum Library has a large collection of southern California seed catalogs from the early 20th century, so we created an online exhibit to show you a sampling of what kinds of fruits and vegetables were being offered at the time. The exhibit features Agge;er & Musser Small Magazine Coverselected pages from over twenty nurseries in the southern California area displaying a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Highlights from the exhibit include pages from catalogs dating back to 1888 as well as examples of what to grow in your Victory Garden to help support the war. You can view the exhibit here: Early Fruit & Vegetable Seed Catalogs of Southern California.