Check out this Google Street View of the Madagascar Section.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Friday, September 5, 2025
Beautiful Sparrows Hunting on Grass Trees and Other Delights
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| Bird (male House Finch) flapping wings to startle insects out of the flowers of an Australian Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea quadrangulata) |
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| Iris pseudacorus, the Yellow flag Iris, in the Kallam Garden. |
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| The Kallam Garden |
Kallam Garden Video
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| Various flowers in the Kallam Garden |
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| Yellow Peonies near the Waterfall |
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| Meyberg Falls, scene of the Rock Video in the first Wayne's World, Beyonce's Survivor video, and Katy Perry's 'Roar' video. |
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| Yellow Peonies in the Herb Garden |
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| Paul McCartney Rose in the Rose Garden |
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| Night Photography shot of the Madagascar Exhibit. |
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| Night Photography shot of the Madagascar Exhibit. |
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| Tower of Jewels (Echium wildpretii) blooming on the east side of the Mediterranean Garden near the south gate. |
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Resources For Making Your Garden Calendar
Garden Calendars for Southern California
- Seasonal plants_planting schedule.pdf
- Yearly Planting Guide Monthly Gardening Guide for Southern California and Similar Climates - Etsy
- Posts - Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening
- Pat Welsh's Southern California Organic Gardening: Month by Month: Welsh, Pat: 9780811868792: Amazon.com: Books
- Amazon.com : Clyde's Garden Planner - Clyde's Vegetable Planting Slide Chart : Office Products
- SDSC Planting Chart Zone 9 and 10 2023
- Garden Planner And Log Book: Gardening Organizer & Journal Notebook - Unique Gardener Planting Gifts: Publishing, Cartba: 9781653335275: Amazon.com: Books
- ANRCatalog - California Master Gardener Handbook--2nd Ed - ANR Catalog
- Chill Hours for Fruit Trees - Maps & Charts - Mehrabyan Nursery
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Looking Forward to Mid to Late January
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| Golden rain tree. |
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| San Gabriel Mountains from the Bauer Lawn. |
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| Magnolias |
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| View from the Meadowbrook |
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| View from the Meadowbrook |
Thursday, December 19, 2024
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Monrovia Garden Club Talk September 24th -Iris Bookmarks
Iris
- Blackberry Lily, Belamcanda chinensis or Iris domestica – Wisconsin Horticulture
- Iris foetidissima|stinking iris/RHS Gardening
- Stinking iris • Weedbusters
- Lapeirousia | Pacific Bulb Society
- Iridaceae | Pacific Bulb Society
- Best Landscape Irises For California | Plants
- Pacific Bulb Society
- WebHome < Main < Iris Wiki
- InfoCultivationBeardedIrises < Main < Iris Wiki
- (82) Webinar #22 "Iris Ensata — the Japanese Iris" by Patrick Spence - YouTube
- (82) Webinar #23 "Growing Iris in Containers" by Doug Chyz - YouTube
- (20+) Facebook
- Japanese Iris List
- WebHome < La < Iris Wiki
- (82) AIS Webinar #11 "Managing Pests and Weeds in the Iris Patch" by Bob Hollingworth - YouTube
- (20+) Facebook
- Breck's Flower Bulbs - Bulbs from Holland since 1818
- Breck's Flower Bulbs - Bulbs from Holland since 1818
- (20+) Iris Sale at the 34th annual Southern California Spring Garden Show | Facebook
- 1909_FARQUHARS_AUTUMN_CATALOGUE.pdf
- U.S.DEPARTMENT_OF_AGRICULTURE_FARMERS_BULLETIN_1406_GARDEN_IRISES.pdf
- BasicIrisCulture
- BasicIrisCulture
- BasicIrisCulture
- BasicIrisCulture
Friday, August 2, 2024
UC Davis Shot Hole Borer Update
Invasive shot hole borers were first discovered in the US in 2012 here in the San Gabriel Valley. Since then they have cropped up in South Africa, Israel, Australia, and is now starting to show up on parts of Europe. Although the damage caused by the pest is not as noticeable as when it was first discovered, it remains a threat to trees and shrubs, both in landscapes and in the wild.
Google Street View Tour of Madagascar Section
The below embedded Google Map Street View gives you a virtual tour of the LA Arboretum's Madagascar Spiny Forest Exhibit. I created the tour using a Insta360 3X camera, and was able to upload it to Google Maps and Google Earth using my iPhone.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
June 5th Plant Information Class Links
June 2024 Plant Info
- Low Impact Development | California State Water Resources Control Board
- California Storm water Multiple Applications and Report Tracking System
- Water Rights FAQs | California State Water Resources Control Board
- The Jewels of June (and part of July) - Google Photos
- Cisterns at the Arboretum - Google Photos
- Cruel vine - UC Weed Science - ANR Blogs
Thursday, April 25, 2024
May 2024 Plant Info at the Arboretum
Big Roses
Double Delight
https://www.jacksonandperkins.com/double-delight-hybrid-tea-rose/p/v1228/
Jackson & Perkins Big Bloom Rose List:
Great Century Rose
https://garden.org/plants/view/3062/Rose-Rosa-Grand-Siecle/
https://www.eumundiroses.com/products/grand-siecle
https://heirloomroses.com/products/great-century
Miss All American Beauty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_'Miss_All-American_Beauty'
Charlotte Armstrong
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_%27Charlotte_Armstrong%27
Rosa Asagumo
https://garden.org/plants/view/4327/Rose-Rosa-Asagumo/
Mid-April Around the Arboretum
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| Night Shot of the Canary Island Exhibit |
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| View from Tallac Knoll |
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| California Live Oak on Tallac Knoll |
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| Chinese Snowball Viburnum under the April Moon |
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| Pink Cistus flowers (Rock Roses) in the Mediterranean section. |
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| White Cistus flowers (Rock Roses) in the Mediterranean section |
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| Turkish sage, Rock roses, and Pink Trumpet trees. |
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| Yellow trumpet trees and Euryops daisies. |
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| Gold coin plant and Echium species blooms. |
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| Sea lavender plants (foreground), Gold coin plants (background) |
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| (right) Chinese Snowball Viburnum |
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| Canary Islands Exhibit in full bloom |
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| Canary Islands Exhibit in full bloom |
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| Eucalyptus macrocarpa in the Australian section. |
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| Peonies in bloom near the herb garden. |
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| Peach colored Handroanthus heptaphyllus |
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| Large yellow roses in the rose garden. |
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| Cistus × purpureus |
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Saturday, March 30, 2024
April 2024 Plant Info Class Links
How Not To Grow The $30 Tomato
Tree Fail University
Coming Attractions at the LA Arboretum and Botanic Garden
Late May, Early June at the Arboretum
Friday, March 22, 2024
Blooming Bamboo Links
Bamboo Blooming
- Bamboo Is About To Flower For The First Time In 120 Years. It Could Be A Disaster | IFLScience
- Duke Gardens bamboo has extremely rare blooms in Durham
- Plantwatch: the bamboo that flowers once every 120 years | Gardens | The Guardian
- Flowering for naught: 120 years with nothing to show - ScienceBlog.com
- Rare bamboo flowering event could be followed by years of ecological change
- Blooming after 120 years - The Hindu BusinessLine
- The First Bamboo Bloom In 120 Years Could Spell Disaster, A New Language Is Forming In Miami, And Much More This Week | IFLScience
- 'Once-in-a-hundred years' sightings of bamboo blossoms reported in Japan - Japan Today
- How Bamboo Grows - Bamboo Sourcery Nursery & Gardens
- Flowering for naught: 120 years with nothing to show | ScienceDaily
- Bamboo about to flower and die for first time in 120 years
- Mysterious bamboo regeneration baffles scientists ahead of once-in-a-century blooming event | Live Science
- Bamboo lives for decades, flowers once, then dies: four bamboozling science facts
- Frontiers | The Bamboo Flowering Cycle Sheds Light on Flowering Diversity
- (3) Massive investments in flowers were in vain: Mass flowering after a century did not bear fruit in the bamboo Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis | Request PDF
- Phyllostachys nigra 'Boryana' (Tiger Bamboo)
- Semelparity and iteroparity - Wikipedia
- [Regeneration of Phyllostachys heteroclada and its relations with rhizome carbon- and nitrogen metabolism] - PubMed
- Mysterious Bamboo flowering phenomenon: A literature review and new perspectives - ScienceDirect
- Flowering of Woody Bamboo in Tissue Culture Systems - PubMed
- Flowering of Woody Bamboo in Tissue Culture Systems
- Clonal structure, seed set, and self-pollination rate in mass-flowering bamboo species during off-year flowering events - PubMed
- gar_pone.0105051 1..7
- Bamboo Flowering from the Perspective of Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics
- Bamboo Flowering from the Perspective of Comparative Genomics and Transcriptomics - PubMed
- The Bamboo Flowering Cycle Sheds Light on Flowering Diversity
- (3) (PDF) Mysterious Bamboo flowering phenomenon: A literature review and new perspectives
- (2) Rare bamboo plant blooms once every 120 years! - YouTube
- (2) Bamboo turning brown? It’s part of a rare flowering process - YouTube
- Garden Talk | Duke Gardens
- Phyllostachys Species List
- Untitled document - Google Docs
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