Garden Calendar

Talk by landscape architecture professor Ken Nacaba on “Mediterranean Influences on California Gardens,” Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, at Rancho Los Cerritos, 4600 Virginia Road, Long Beach, (562) 570-1755. $6; students $5.

* Pacific Camellia Society show of blossoms, Saturday, 1-4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge, (818) 952-4401; https://www.descanso. com. $5 garden admission.

* Guided tour of the garden’s 35-acre camellia forest, Sunday, 2:30-3:30 p.m., at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge, (818) 952-4401; https://www.descanso.com. $5 garden admission.

* Class held in the Victorian rose garden on pruning shrub and climbing roses by expert Bill Robinson, Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon, at the Arboretum of Los Angeles County, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia, (626) 821-3222. $12.

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