I came across this in my PInterest pins a few weeks ago. A great idea for growing greens easily in limited space.
Salad Table: The University of Maryland’s Jon Traunfeld explains how to grow your own greens using an innovative salad table. Part 1.
Source: marthastewart.com via Douglas on Pinterest
Keep your garden waste out of your city garden bin and put it to use for you. There is little need to buy bag after bag of compost, top dressing, and mulch each year when many of us have plenty of material to use right in our own gardens.
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Gardens of LA – Huntington Library, Art Galley and Botanic Gardens, San Marino, CA
Gardening Gift Guide #15: Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
Event: New Altadena farmers market starts May 30
Fiskars looking for Project Orange Thumb grant applications
Photos: Peaceful garden, home office and waiting room
This was part of one of the design gardens at the Southern California Spring Garden Show 2012. I am not sure what type of saw could give you such perfect slices. They seem large for using a chain saw. Perhaps there is a sawmill that turns them out as a specialty item.
See the complete set of photos from the Southern California Spring Garden Show.
An overview of what is happening in my garden today. We take a look at the mulched path project from last week, hibiscus flowers, carrots, tomatoes, basil and my clytostoma calistagoides flowering vine. (7 mins)
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Los Angeles Cactus & Succulent Society
12th Annual Exhibit and Plant Sale
Drought Tolerant Plant Festival
Saturday June 9th 9am to 5pm (Lectures start at 10:00)
Sunday June 10th 9am to 4pm (Kid’s events start at 10:30)
Photos from 2011 Show
Learn how landscaping with drought tolerant plants can save you money and water.
The festival will include;
• Interior Educational Displays
LACSS would like to Welcome The San Fernando Valley Bromeliad Society and The Sansui-Kai of Southern California Bonsai Club. http://www.sansui-kai.com/
Come see their incredible displays.
• Exterior Demonstration Gardens
Touchable Garden- Under the Sea- Dyckias
• Raffles • Silent Auction
• Plant and Pottery Sale
• Craft sales
Saturday’s Guest Speakers Include:
Matt Maggio, “Container Gardening with Succulents”
(10 AM to 11 AM)
Andy Siekkinen, “Staging and Caring of Tillandsias” sponsored by
the San Fernando Valley Bromeliad Societywww.sfvbromeliads.com
(11:30 AM to 12:30 PM)
Lili Singer, “California Natives in the Garden” sponsored by the
Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers and Native Plants
(1 PM to 2 PM)
Mike Buckner, “The Art of Staging Succulents”
(2:30 PM to 3:30 PM)
Sunday Kids Day
• Arts and Crafts • Create Father’s Day Gifts
• Pot -A -Plant • Games
•Landscape exhibits that show the various types of plants that might be used in a typical drought tolerant garden and how they could be arranged – the exhibits will incorporate boulders, rocks, driftwood, and other materials.
• Vendors will be selling the plants employed in the exhibits at the festival in addition to many other plants, books, pottery, top dressing, rocks.
Sepulveda Garden Center
16633 Magnolia Boulevard Encino, CA 91436
Questions? 818.749 5346 or www.lacss-show.com
email: info@lacss-show.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION CHECK THE WEBSITE
http://www.lacss-show.com/ or you can call 818 749 5346
Thursday, June 14
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm
Seaver classroom 3, The Huntington Library
Wade Graham explores what four hundred years of garden making in America reveal about our values, politics, and dreams, and how our evolving relationship with Nature in our gardens forms a unique window onto the continuing process of fashioning a national identity in his newly-published book, American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to our Backyards, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are (HarperCollins 2011). This social history of gardens in America is an expansive and penetrating exploration of how our evolving relationships with our gardens and landscapes have reflected our national identity over the course of time.
In Conversation is a brown bag luncheon series sponsored by ICW. These events are open to any who wish to attend so please feel free to bring your own lunch and join us.
To reserve a seat for the Graham event, please respond to Kim Matsunaga at kmatsuna@usc.edu by June 10.
Link: Huntington.org
A short montage of an amazing peaceful garden, home office and waiting area. This amazing Asian-themed garden is a joy to visit and also to work in. Once ensconced in its small, private world, you would never expect that you are in the middle of the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
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One of my client’s has an amazing home office set amid this equally as amazing garden. I was visiting for a computer support call today and asked if I could take a few pictures to share with you.The garden is Asian-themed and is such a peaceful spot even in the midst of the San Fernando Valley. I could imagine myself working quite happily in this garden.
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