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Unique L.A., worm composting and more in the week ahead
L.A. at HomeHome and garden events, classes and exhibitions are listed below. Suggest your own via reader comments. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. Feb. 6: Los Angeles designer and architectural theorist Joe Day of Deegan-Day Design lectures as... -
What's new in 'The New Sunset Western Garden Book'?
L.A. at Home"The New Sunset Western Garden Book" is released with new features including a digital Plant Finder, plant profile photos instead of illustrations, and a new section on edibles.... -
Gary Hammer dies at 57; plant hunter and horticulturalist
He had been called the Indiana Jones of horticulture, breaking his leg while hanging from a cliff in Mexico to collect bromeliads and facing down the rifles of Ecuadorean soldiers who mistook him for a spy.
Nurseryman Gary Hammer "risked life and limb,...Tags: Agricultural Research and Technology, South Africa, Mexico City, Air Transportation Delays, Science
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The Dry Garden: North East Trees' quiet greening of L.A.
L.A. at HomeUnless you are active in the field of urban greening, you probably haven’t heard of North East Trees. Unlike the better known TreePeople, North East Trees has not seen its founder land on "The Tonight Show." Rather, the nonprofit that...... -
The Dry Garden: How to water and mulch in the heat of summer
L.A. at HomeAtop California gardeners' to-do list in August and September: irrigate and mulch.... -
Summer Concerts 2010: Classical and World Music
Sundays
Sundays Live at LACMA: Weekly one-hour classical chamber music concerts and recitals by soloists and ensembles. This series has been running since 1948. Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., L.A. 6 p.m. Free. http:/...Tags: Carnegie Hall, John F. Williams, Children, Opera (genre), Entertainment
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It's not all about the beach on Kauai
Visitors to Kauai who venture beyond the beach may be rewarded with a few hours in a town where time has slowed, at a Hindu monastery high in the hills, a small museum chronicling the history of Kauai and a garden of the gods.
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On a typical...Tags: Arts, Mountains, Canoeing and Kayaking, History, Petroleum Industry
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Charles Bukowski at the Huntington
Jacket CopyThe Huntington's Charles Bukowski exhibit opened Saturday; the library owns both a Gutenberg Bible and the papers of the Los Angeles poet, who died in 1994. "The Huntington is perceived as a conservative institution, but it's really not," David S....... -
$100 million-plus for Huntington will be largest cash gift in institution's history
Culture MonsterThe suspense is over. Now that the late Frances Brodyâs other heirs have received their shares of her fortune, the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens has a much clearer idea of its own windfall from the L.A. art...... -
The Dry Garden: How can an old arboretum be relevant to modern gardeners? Survey lets you answer
L.A. at HomeSince arriving at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden more than a year and a half ago, Chief Executive Richard Schulhof has been listening. The region’s leading horticultural figures have been invited for brainstorming sessions about... -
The Dry Garden: Stunning flannel bush comes with prickly problems
L.A. at HomeSome years ago, the website of Native Sons Nursery had a photograph of a California flannel bush that had been trained to grow along a garden wall. Each bloom in a spangle of flowers was the size of a teacup....... -
The Dry Garden: Southern California's most interesting experiment in water-wise landscaping
L.A. at HomeSpotting a pumpkin identified as a gourd prompted Leigh Adams to write John Lyons. She was (and is) an expert in gourd-craft as well as the artist-in-residence at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden. Lyons, whose website carried......
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