* George Harmon Scott; Ex-Times Garden Columnist

George Harmon Scott, 87, a noted horticulturist who was the longtime “Garden Jobs” columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Born in Los Angeles, Scott grew up in Bel-Air and attended the Thacher School in Ojai before studying at Stanford University and then Yale, where he graduated with a degree in architecture. Scott gave up architecture and turned to the nursery profession after the post-World War II building boom faded. An expert on perennials, he wrote “Bulbs: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy,” a book that Times garden editor Robert Smaus last year called “the best general bulb book for the Southland.” Scott, a longtime employee of Burkart’s Nursery in Pasadena, also wrote regularly for Sunset magazine. On May 15 in Arcadia.