SCB Bulletin Board Tag: garden

DonnieHaigh on "Habitat Stewards Training"

DonnieHaigh — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:26:09 +0000

Become a part of the Team! Join us for this 3 part-training program that will get you ready to assist in planting California native plants at the Nature Center. Monthly meetings and work parties will provide ongoing opportunities to sharpen your gardening skills, make new friends and help restore the land back to natives.
Program begins Friday, September 26 9 am – 12 pm.
Call for information and registration packet. (562) 570-1750
$40 materials fee.

Anonymous on "Start Up Garden event facility needs botanist"

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:59:57 +0000

Hello,

My name is Leah Canon and I am in the process of purchasing some land in Topanga Canyon, "Copper Grapes" for a garden wedding facility. It will be similar to Descanso Gardens with a Rose and Flower Garden for ceremonies. In addition, it will also have a Conservation Garden. I need a botanist to come on board with me so that I can apply for loans and grants in order to get this project started. There are a number of endangered plants that are indigenous to Southern CA and Topanga specifically that I would like to help save and protect. Experience or knowledge of these plants would be most beneficial for the gardens in acquiring seedlings from their custodians: Astragalus brauntonii "Braunton's Milk Vetch"; Atriplex parishii "Parish's brittlescale; Calochortus plummeraw "Plummer's Msriposa Lily", Camissonia lewisii "Lewis' Evening Primrose", Carpenteria californica, Cercocarpus betuloides "California mountain-mahogany", Chamaebatia australis "Southern Mountain Misery", Dichondra occidentalis "Western Dichondra", Hernizonia minthornii "Santa Susana Tarplant", Lasthenia glabrata coulteri "Coulter's Goldfields", Mucronea Californica "California Spineflower", Nama stenocarpum "Mud Nama", Sidalcea neomexicana "Salt Spring Checkerbloom" as well as several Dudleya and several Delphinium endangered varieties. Please contact me leahcanon@msn.com Thank you.

naomi on "SCB Field trip to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden"

naomi — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:31:15 +0000

Saturday, April 14, 2007
Time: 9:00 AM to Noon.
Meet at the Wisura Gate entrance to the Garden (at the northeast end of the visitor parking lot).
Trip leader: Bart O’Brien, Senior Staff Research Associate, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

This walking tour of the Garden will focus on some of the more interesting botanical highlights of Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden’s living collection including: a rare F1 Quercus x morehus, an F2 Quercus x ganderi, Arctostaphylos australis a rare and unusual manzanita from Baja California, Mortonia utahensis a limestone endemic from the eastern Mojave, both boojums (Fouquieria columnaris), our single site native specimen of Quercus durata var. gabrielensis, and many other unusual plants. We will also visit our large groves of Pinus quadrifolia and Adenostoma sparsiflorum. Many of our plants should be in full bloom at this time, and there are always many birds and lizards to observe.

Expect to cover a lot of territory within the Garden’s 86 acres – much of our time will be spent in the Plant Communities portion of the Garden (our northern 55 acres). Wear comfortable shoes and bring some water – in case it is warm! If it is raining, we will focus on sheltered parts of the Garden including the nursery, greenhouses, seed collection, growth chambers, etc. until the rain stops or noon