Garden Will Be Named for Longtime Councilman
A new drought-tolerant garden at the local historical society museum will be named in honor of Talmage Burke, who has served on the City Council for 45 years.
The council is soliciting bids from contractors to build the Talmage V. Burke Xeriscape Garden in the northeast corner of the grounds of the Alhambra Historical Society Museum.
“Talmage has been a great advocate of this type of garden, and so some of the council felt it would be appropriate to name it after him,” City Manager Julio Fuentes said.
Burke joined the council in 1952.
The 1,300-square-foot garden will feature walkways of decomposed granite surrounded by planter beds with decorative rocks and plants native to the area.
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