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Home and garden tours and seminars
MARCH 28 Cymbidium show: San Gabriel Valley branch of the Cymbidiun Society of America hosts an orchid show with potting demonstrations and an orchid sale. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. March 28 and 29. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N....Tags: Gardens and Parks, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Tourism and Leisure, Burbank (Los Angeles, California), California
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Talks on flowers, gardens and L.A. architecture
MARCH 14 Native plants: Bruce Pavlik, professor of biology at Mills College and author of "The California Deserts: An Ecological Rediscovery," lectures on "Ecological Histories of the Desert." 10 to 11:30 a.m. $20 to $30. That is followed by Louise...Tags: Natural Resources, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Gardens and Parks, Los Angeles, Wildflowers
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Home and garden events in the Southland
TODAY Native plants: Horticulturist Lili Singer leads a class on California flora. Learn about planting techniques, irrigation, pruning, maintenance and where to see and buy native plants. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $35 to $45. Later in the afternoon, James...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Earl Warren Jr., China
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Home and garden events in Southern California
FEB. 14 Design class: Landscape designer Laramee Haynes will discuss how to create beautiful spaces using native plants, well-placed shade trees and other more elements. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants,...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), China, California, Arts, Arcadia
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Drought-gardening resources
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California: For the last four years it has developed programs with information about landscaping, irrigation upgrades, resource guides, grants and retailers of California-friendly plants. To learn how to adjust your...Tags: Santa Ana, Orange County (California), Los Angeles, California, Science
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Eddie Logan dies at 98; Santa Anita Park shoe shiner
Eddie Logan, who ran a shoeshine stand at Santa Anita Park from the day the horse racing track opened in 1934 until a few weeks ago, died Saturday. He was 98.
Logan, who in his younger years was a boxer as well as a baseball player in the Negro Leagues,...Tags: Sports, Babe Ruth, Satchel Paige, Horse and Harness Racing, Lou Gehrig
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Learn about fire-resistant landscaping
NOV. 8 Firescaping: Landscape architect and contractor Owen Dell, a co-designer of the Santa Barbara Firescape Garden, leads a class on fire-resistant landscaping. 1 to 3 p.m. Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers & Native Plants, 10459 Tuxford St.,...Tags: Natural Resources, Gardens and Parks, Wildflowers, Tourism and Leisure, California
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Step right in ...
Chalk it up to climate or to pride of ownership, but Southern California has exceptionally vibrant home, garden and architecture tours. At movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles as well as wildflower patches in our farthest-flung suburbs, doors and gates...Tags: Washington (U.S. state), Highland Park (Los Angeles, California), Tourism and Leisure, Lancaster (Lancaster, Virginia), Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Where roots run deep
Special to The TimesIf the wealth of a city can be measured by its urban forest, then Los Angeles is rich with countless arboreal gems. One treasure lies just north of downtown, unnoticed by thousands who pass by it each day on their way to work or a Dodgers game: the...Tags: Transportation, Management Change, Los Angeles, Road Transportation, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Rethinking the rose
Times Staff WriterBeauty is a dangerous thing. Witness the rose. It was plucked from shrubdom because of the bloom. Its fragrance gave Egypt rose water, Persia attar, France candied rose petals. It sweetened the medieval apothecary cabinet and became a symbol of passion...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure, Ventura County (California), China, California
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Bend, inhale: Try it
Times Staff WriterThe tulips at Descanso Gardens are bold in color and stature. Roses and lilacs are in bloom, and in the California native garden, poppies are bountiful -- their petals unfolding like melted butter as they show their faces to the sun. If gardens ever...Tags: Sports, Natural Resources, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Gardens and Parks, Tourism and Leisure
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This season's 'it' tree
Special to The TimesE.H. Wilson, renowned plant hunter of the early 1900s, said Southern California grew a greater variety of plants than any other place in the United States, but even so, our region "possessed but one-half of one percent of the number it might have."...Tags: Walt Disney, Natural Resources, Los Angeles, Bee (insect), California
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