[Lapg] Fwd: Garden Chats at LA Garden Show-April 30, May 1, May 2
Joan Stevens
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Thu Apr 29 17:52:11 PDT 2010
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> From: "Yvonne Savio" <ydsavio at ucdavis.edu>
> Date: April 29, 2010 1:17:19 PM PDT
> To: "08-09 Work" <ydsavio at ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: Garden Chats at LA Garden Show-April 30, May 1, May 2
>
> Hi, All –
>
> See below my signature info.
>
> UCCE Master Gardeners will be at the Plant Information booth. Come
> visit!
>
> Ciao for now.
>
> Yvonne Savio
> Common Ground Garden Program Manager
> University of California Cooperative Extension, Los Angeles County
> PO Box 22255
> 4800 E. Cesar E. Chavez Avenue
> Los Angeles CA 90022
> Phone: 323-260-3407
> Fax: 323-881-0067
> Email: ydsavio at ucdavis.edu
> Website: http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/Common_Ground_Garden_Program/
> Master Gardener Email Gardening helpline: mglosangeleshelpline at ucdavis.edu
> Master Gardener Phone Gardening helpline: 323-260-3238
>
> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Common-Ground-Garden-Program-UC-Cooperative-Extension-Los-Angeles-County/124160624772
>
> Facebook: www.facebook.com/YvonneSavio
>
> 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award, Los Angeles Community Garden Council
> 2007 Certificate of Commendation, Los Angeles Unified School District
> 2006 Certificate of Appreciation, City of Los Angeles
> 2004 "Feeding the Hungry" Garden Crusader Award, Gardener's Supply
> Company
>
> Since 1978, the Common Ground Garden program has helped Los Angeles
> County residents to garden, grow their own food, and healthfully
> prepare it. Our targeted audience and priority are to serve limited-
> resource residents and those traditionally underrepresented. By
> training community volunteers, we empower neighborhoods to create
> their own solutions. Our Master Gardener volunteers work primarily
> with community gardens, school gardens, seniors, and homeless and
> battered women's shelters.
>
> In 2009, 192 Master Gardeners volunteered 9,955 hours serving 63,624
> low-income gardeners in Los Angeles County at 41 community gardens,
> 71 school gardens, 14 homeless and battered-women’s shelter gardens,
> 6 senior gardens, and 14 fairs and farmers markets.
> From: Jill Berry [mailto:Jill.Berry at arboretum.org]
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:29 AM
> To: Jill Berry
> Subject: Garden Chats at LA Garden Show-April 30, May 1, May 2
>
> Hi Everyone –
> The LA Garden Show at The Arboretum begins tomorrow, Friday, April
> 30 through Sunday, May 2! Don’t miss it!
>
> GARDEN CHATS at The Arboretum-- FRIDAY, APRIL 30
> 301 North Baldwin Ave., Arcadia, CA 91007 – 9am-4:30pm
> Free to members / free with Arboretum admission - Admission: $8
> adults / $6 seniors & students with ID / $3 children ages 5-12 /
> children ages 4 and under are free
>
> 11am Nancy Goslee Power, Landscape Designer,
> Author
> The Power of Gardens / Ayres Hall / Book signing to follow
> Nancy Goslee Power is a celebrated garden designer whose firm has
> built countless gardens, both public and private, around the world.
> The recipient of countless awards, Nancy’s designs reflect the atten
> tion she pays to each place’s particularity and to the desires and l
> iving patterns of those who will use and enjoy her gardens. From her
> lifetime of experiences, she has put together a series of design pr
> incipals that reflect a process and an approach with which she imagi
> nes and creates outdoor spaces. Each of her projects reminds us of t
> he power that gardens have to refresh the body, center the mind and
> liberate the spirit. www.nancypower.com .
>
> 12Noon Gary Jones, Plantsman, Armstrong Garden
> Centers
> Green Architecture – Volume and Shape in the Mediterranean Garden /
> Ayres Hall
> Enjoy a visual tour of gardens that relies on shrub forms to create
> exciting and dramatic outdoor spaces. Low-water Mediterranean plants
> are ideally suited to bring to life artful and dynamic garden
> architecture. Gary Jones is a popular lecturer whose nursery,
> Hortus, was famous for extraordinary plants and plant combinations,
> innovative classes and inspired staff. Gary is Vice President of
> Marketing at Armstrong Garden Centers, Inc., an employee-owned
> company founded in 1889. www.armstronggarden.com
>
> 1pm Steve Gerischer, Landscape Designer,
> Educator
> Strategies for Sustainability - Easy Ways to Keep Your Garden
> "green" / Ayres Tent
> Keeping a 'green' garden need not be a strenuous affair. A change in
> the way we perceive things is easy-and becomes a way of life with no
> added burden beyond the fun challenge of finding new uses for old
> things and better, more ecologically responsible ways to cultivate
> our yard. 'Sustainability' is a confusing concept for some-but a
> popular catch phrase for everything under the sun these days. Learn
> some simple, fun ways to effortlessly reduce the amount of precious
> resources you use every day. Let nature do your work for you. Steve
> ’s company, Larkspur Garden Design, delights clients with imaginativ
> e ideas and problem-solving expertise. He is also President of the
> Southern California Horticultural Society. sglarkspur at aol.com
>
> 2pm Gisele Schoniger, Organic Gardening
> Educator, Kellogg Garden Products
> Build Healthy Soils Organically / Ayres Tent
> Sustainable is attainable and so are safe gardening practices!
> Learn to feed organically and minimize pest and disease issues.
> Understanding the biology of soil will help you to build a healthy
> garden naturally. Learn about the soil food web and mycorrhizal
> fungi and how to care for a living breathing soil. In her 30 years
> in the garden industry, Giselle has accumulated a wide range of
> experience and knowledge. She has owned an interiorscape company,
> worked for the State Department of Agriculture, practiced as a
> horticultural therapist, and helped establish top-selling organic
> gardening products with Kellogg Garden Products, a family business
> selling horticultural products throughout the West. www.kellogggarden.com
>
> 3pm Bob Perry, Author, Landscape Architect &
> Educator
> Creating Attractive and Sustainable Residential Gardens /Ayres
> Hall / Book signing before & after talk
> Bob will present planting ideas and guidelines that are suited for
> attractive and sustainable residential gardens for San Gabriel
> Valley communities. Examples of garden designs will be shown to
> illustrate the use of various planting palettes that have
> distinctive aesthetic character and compatible water and maintenance
> needs. These gardens will feature the use of Mediterranean,
> California native and arid climate plant species. Bob is a
> recognized expert in areas of landscape plants and water conserving
> garden design. He has recently written and published, Landscape
> Plants for California Gardens, a comprehensive color illustrated
> garden reference. www.landdesignpublishing.com
>
>
> GARDEN CHATS at The Arboretum -- SATURDAY, MAY 1
> Free to members / free with admission
> 11am Steve Goto, Tomato Guru
> Grow the Perfect Tomato! / Ayres Tent
> Steve will talk about everything you need to know to grow organic
> tomatoes, including heirlooms! His Top 2010 Tomato Picks (based on
> the favorite tomatoes at his tastings from the year before) have
> become legendary so after his talk, be sure to visit the Tomatomania
> booth and Arboretum Plants Tent where there will be lots of plants
> for sale. Steve recently spoke to almost 200 people at The Arboretum
> ’s Great Tomato Sale in March, when over 60 flats of seedlings were
> sold in less than 2 hours! www.gotomato.us.com
>
> 12Noon Nicholas Staddon, New Plant Introductions,
> Monrovia Growers
> Essential Plants with Excellent Credentials / Ayres Tent
> Whether your garden is formal, informal, a deck, balcony, and a few
> containers or as Nicholas often describes his own...an organized
> jumble...Nicholas will provide us with a core group of "Garden
> Essential" plants for Southern California. This talk includes new
> water wise plants from New Zealand and Australia, as well as plants
> that will create a foundation to attract wildlife into the garden,
> and of course fruiting plants that are tried and true in the area.
> And, knowing Nicholas, he always has some special plant or two
> tucked under the table as a surprise. Many of the plants presented
> will also be on sale at the Monrovia display. www.monrovia.com
>
>
> 1pm Darren Butler, Arborist and Sustainable
> Landscaping Specialist
> Ten Trees in One: Grafting Citrus and Avocados / Ayres Tent
> Grow multiple varieties of oranges, mandarins and tangerines,
> lemons, limes, grapefruits, and other citrus all on the same tree.
> May is the best month in Southern California for grafting many
> citrus and some avocados. This talk includes a demonstration of a
> simple grafting method with a high rate of success for beginners.
> Darren is an ecological landscape designer, consulting arborist,
> greywater & irrigation designer, and teacher. He has appeared on
> several episodes of "Weekend Gardening" for an international
> television audience, on NPR radio, in newspapers, and in other
> national and local media. www.EcoWorkshops.com
>
> 2pm Caitlin Bergman, Permaculturist at The
> Arboretum
> Enter the Permasphere: Portal to Permaculture / Ayres Hall
> Come drink from an oasis of possibilities that looks at nature
> through the lens of a global revolution in sustainability. With
> innovative landscape design and the nourishing of resilient
> ecosystems in our own backyards, difficulties become opportunities
> and scarcity blossoms into abundance. Create harmonious habitats
> that are productive gardens teaming with lush soil –“food
> forests” rich in fruit trees, fragrant herbs, shrubs, vegetables, vi
> nes, and flowers. Caitlin is a Certified Permaculture Designer, con
> sultant and educator, and a horticulturist and permaculturist at The
> Arboretum. www.SayPermaculture.com
>
> 3pm Laura Morton, Garden Designer
> California got the Gold, Silver & Bronze...and it's all Green! /
> Ayres Tent
> What isn't to love about the native plant communities of Southern
> California or the many ways we can design our landscape for outdoor
> living all year long? They don't call it the Golden State for
> nothing. So Cal has a natural and distinctive color palate of
> golden oranges and yellows, luminous silver and shimmery greens and
> the deepest mahogany-bronze bark and seedpods, not to mention a
> complete range of blue tones. .Join award-winning professional
> landscape designer Laura Morton for an eye-opening discourse on
> designing outdoor spaces and landscapes with a distinctly West Coast
> aesthetic. www.lauramortondesign.com
>
> GARDEN CHATS at The Arboretum -- SUNDAY, MAY 2
> Free to members / free with Arboretum admission
>
> 11am Jill Morganelli, Horticultural Curator,
> Sustainable Landscape Designer
> Maintaining Your Drought Tolerant Garden / Ayres Tent
> Are you interested in a drought tolerant garden but clueless about
> how to care for it? Jill Morganelli will share tried and true tools
> and techniques to maintain your new Southern California landscape.
> Learning about these beautiful plants and how to care for them will
> provide maximum color, vigor and success in your own backyard. Jill
> is the Horticultural Curator for The Arboretum, teaches Plant
> Identification and Organic Fruit & Vegetable Gardening, and is a
> sustainable landscape designer. panorganic at gmail.com
>
> 12Noon John Lyons, Landscape Designer
> The Totally Organic Summer Vegetable Garden / Ayres Tent
> From the soil up...learn how to design, install and maintain your
> garden without the use of chemicals or pesticides. Plant choices for
> Southern California plus feeding and organic pest control will also
> be discussed. John is a gardener who designs, installs and
> maintains edible landscapes, California Native gardens, orchards and
> wild hedgerows. He recently appeared on HGTV in a program called An
> Outdoor Room with Jamie Durie in an episode entitled The Edible
> Garden. www.thewovengarden.com
>
> 1pm Lili Singer, Horticulturist, Garden
> Writer & Educator
> Native Trees for Urban Gardens / Ayres Hall
> Trees are the heart of the landscape, and there’s a native tree for
> every size garden. In addition to beauty, shade, and color, trees pr
> ovide habitat for native wildlife. Learn which tree species are righ
> t for your landscape, how to plant and keep them healthy, and how to
> select companion plants. Lili is a horticultural consultant and gar
> den writer, and special projects coordinator for the Theodore Payne
> Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants (www.theodorepayne.org )
> . She also leads the Thursday Garden Talks at The Los Angeles Arbore
> tum.
>
> 2pm Lara Laskay, Vermiculturist, Urban Worms
> Composting with Worms / Ayres Tent
> Earthworms can break down your garbage, transforming it to “black go
> ld”, an organic fertilizer for your garden or house plants. As they
> cultivate and feed, they swallow great quantities of soil and garbag
> e, digest it, extract its food value, and expel castings. Vermicompo
> sting is a fun & easy way to significantly reduce your family’s cont
> ribution to our landfills. Learn to start your own worm bin. www.urban-worms.com
>
> 3pm Reginald Durant, Director of Restoration
> at Back to Natives
> Back to Native: Alternatives to Traditional Landscape Plants / Ayres
> Hall
> Reggie Durant will provide information to start or improve existing
> native habitat garden. Learn about alternatives to traditional
> landscapes, which native plants attract butterflies & birds, height,
> spread & water requirements for commonly used natives. Some
> information on maintenance will be covered, including each plant's
> capacity for pruning, and tolerance for over or under watering. BTN
> promotes native plants, as well as habitat restoration and
> preservation by providing service learning and volunteer based
> habitat restoration programs. www.backtonatives.org
>
>
> Jill Berry, Program Manager
> Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
> 301 North Baldwin Ave.
> Arcadia, CA 91007-2697
> Phone: 626.821.4624
> Fax: 626.821.4642
> Jill.Berry at arboretum.org
> www.arboretum.org
>
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