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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Where passionate gardeners meet to share knowledge and learn from each other. socalhort.org July 2013 Newsletter OUR NEXT MEETING NEW MEMBERS NEXT SHARING SECRETS IN THIS ISSUE QUESTION Thursday, July 11 June Meeting Recap 7:30 pm The Sharing Secrets question by Laura Bauer ....................... 2 Richard Carlos *Los Angeles Zoo for July is: ”What is your Sharing Secrets ..........................2 Valerie Loew favorite new plant this year, Witherbee Auditorium* and why?” Green Sheet 5333 Zoo Drive Mary C. Montes by James E. Henrich................3 Los Angeles CA 90027 You can answer on the cards Cynthia Nunes Robinson we’ll supply at our June 13 Escape to Ventura.......................4 We meet the second Thursday Judy Dattels meeting, on our MemberLodge Horticultural Happenings of each month at 7:30 pm website or e-mail your ______________________________ by Bettina Gatti ........................5 Curt Klebaum response This meeting is free to SCHS to:[email protected] by Upcoming 2013 SCHS Programs members and is $5 for non- Friday, June 14. .....................................................6 members without a guest pass. The July Meeting in great swathes of repeating patterns and blocks of color, is still in fashion today. Amelia Lima: Roberto Marx’s work “can be summarized in four Burle Marx: Gardens in general design concepts—the use of native tropical vegetation as a structural element of Brazil. design, the rupture of symmetrical patterns in the conception of open spaces, the colorful treatment of pavements, and the use of free forms in water features” (Vaccarino 2000, p. 17). This approach is exemplified by the Copacabana Beach promenade, where native sea-breeze-resistant trees and palms appear in groupings along Avenida Atlantica. These groupings punctuate Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Amelia Portuguese stone mosaics which form a studied architecture at Universidade Santa giant abstract painting where no section Ursula. She has an Associate degree from along the promenade is the same. This Harper College in Applied Science in “painting” is viewed from the balconies of Horticulture, and has been certified by the hotels, and offers an ever-changing view for Association of Professional Landscape those driving along the beach. The mosaics Designers for 13 years. She moved to the continue the entire two and a half mile United States 30 years ago, and has lived in distance of the beach. The water feature in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and this case, is of course, the ocean and beach, California. These changes in location have which is bordered by a 30-foot-wide allowed her to experience gardening in continuous scallop-patterned mosaic walk. different U.S. climate zones, each with their distinctive plants. Copacabana Beach is widely regarded as the most famous beach in Brazil, if not the In 1989, Amelia had the opportunity to meet world. Roberto Burle Marx, and spend time in his studio in Rio de Janeiro. She is a great We look forward to hearing Amelia Lima’s Amelia Lima will be our guest speaker for admirer of his gardens and loves to teach presentation illustrating the work of this the July meeting of the Southern California about his art. visionary artist. Horticultural Society, presenting her talk about Brazilian landscape architect, Roberto Roberto Burle Marx produced some of the This meeting will be at the Los Angeles Zoo, Burle Marx. She is the owner of Amelia B. most iconic garden and landscape designs of Witherbee Auditorium. We will return to Lima and Associates, Inc. a design studio the twentieth century. His use of native Friendship Auditorium next month. plants from the forests of Brazil, laid down specializing in residential landscape design. (SEE NOTES ON PAGE 2 FOR DIRECTIONS) 2 JUNE MEETING & MORE June Meeting Recap neighbors and communities together. SHARING SECRETS Ernie ended his talk with a demonstration of one In June, we asked you to answer “Do you Chef Ernest Miller teaches through stories. When of the simplest forms of food preservation – salt preserve any of the produce you grow?” it comes to our perception of food, he believes water preservation of cabbage, aka sauerkraut. and here are some of your responses. Read there are actually six senses: salty, sweet, sour, Without going into too much detail on the bitter, umami (savory) and STORY. different types of salts and how the fermentation more on our SCHS MemberLodge website, process works (“You all should learn to cook!” schs.memberlodge.org. Chef Ernie started off his talk with a history of he admonished the crowd”*), he started five food preservation, from salt and fat/oil pounds of chopped cabbage on its way to preservation through modern factory processing. becoming sauerkraut that will last for a couple of The miracle of being able to save food for later months in the refrigerator. He also showed off Yes! Canning: Sweet gherkin and garlic dill enabled civilizations to survive unstable food his fermentation kit, which has a special pickles, honey strawberry-rhubarb, honeyed supplies and created commerce. Ernie illustrated “burper” on top of the clear glass canister to his history with characters like Napoleon kumquats, honey-spiced peaches. Yum! allow the release of CO2 during the fermentation Bonaparte, who gave out a prize for anyone who -Yvonne Savio process. could invent a way to deliver dependable food to his armies. The prize was collected by a Chef Ernie is an instructor with the Master Food vintner who boiled fruit puree in sealed wine Preserver Program through the University of I make pickled preserved lemons with our bottles until it was sterile. California Cooperative Extension. You can sign Meyer lemons, dried herbs, yellow squash up for the Master Food Preserver Program pickles, honey in glass jars (a self-preserving Home food preservation in America reached its through their website (when class space is product from our hive), furniture polish and peak during World War II, when food and the available!). He also mentioned other metal for cans of processed food was needed for hand lotion of beeswax obtained from honey organizations like Craftcation and Food Forward the war effort. Americans were encouraged to extraction. for people interested in learning more about food grow their own food in Victory gardens and preservation. -Kathryn Itomura preserve it by “canning” in glass jars. Many of us can remember parents or grandparents who knew - Laura Bauer how to put up fruits and vegetables in season. So I can fig preserves, mixed berry preserves, why do so few people know how to do this * - The book he mentioned for newbie chefs is American peach chutney. For the first time now? The Flavor Bible (2008), by Karen Page and trying caper berries preserved in salt, Andrew Dornenburg.* One reason is the urbanization of America – fermenting dill pickles, canning peach jam, many people moving to suburbs and cities Thanks to Dan Robinson and Calscapes Growers tomatillo salsa, and roasted red peppers. I simply didn't grow vegetables or fruit (much less for providing raffle plants, and thank you as well also freeze tomatoes for future use. to John Schoustra for arranging to pick up the chickens!). Only recently have urbanized people -Sondra Hague started to grow small food gardens again. plants. We welcome the return of our plant raffle. Thanks to everyone who brought plants for Another reason is the rise of cheap, factory- I make loads of tomato sauce and freeze it, processed preserved foods after the war. the forum table. dill and sweet dill pickled cucumbers, and However, with 50-plus years of industrial food as king, some of the adverse health effects of Thank you as well to all of the people who pickled peppers. Habanero and jalapeno factory farming are coming to light: too much helped set up the meeting, sign in our jelly to give away at holidays. I freeze citrus salt, sugar or chemical preservatives. The latest guests, run the AV equipment and help juice, lemon and lime particularly. rise in home food preservation comes from a clean up afterword. -Steven Gerischer desire to take back control of what we consume. Please join us for our next meeting as Ernie credits the Slow Food Movement, the Amelia Lima presents: Roberto Burle Marx: To preserve a surplus from over-achieving locavore movement and author Michael Pollan Gardens in Brazil on July 11 at the Witherbee trees, and assorted impulse purchases, I with making people think about where their food Auditorium at the Los Angleles Zoo. found that freezing was easy and effective. I comes from and what they choose to eat. He froze almost everything in ice cube trays, said the story behind locally-produced food then dumped the trays into sealed bags for items can create a connection to us and A FEW NOTES ON THE ZOO AUDITORIUM encourage us to produce our own food. Even more compact storage. Tomatoes, peppers, mass-produced foods, like Huy Fong Foods' & chiles - cut into whatever size you Sriracha Sauce (the red Vietnamese hot sauce in Our July 12 meeting of SCHS will be held in generally use to cook; seed if desired the bottle with a rooster on it) had to come from the Witherbee Auditorium at the Los Hachiya persimmons--wait until squishy somewhere: in this case, “Huy Fong” was the Angeles Zoo, northeast corner of Griffith ripe before freezing; eat partially frozen name of the boat that brought the company's Park. The Zoo is located near the figs - cut off neck section; freeze whole or in founder from Vietnam to Los Angeles. He built junction of the I-5 and the 134 freeways. pieces; eat partially frozen tangerine his hot sauce empire with heirloom recipes and There is plenty of free parking, and sections--remove seeds; use for stir fry.

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