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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Where passionate gardeners meet to share knowledge and learn from each other. socalhort.org August 2012 Newsletter OUR NEXT MEETING AUGUST NEXT SHARING SECRETS IN THIS ISSUE OPPORTUNITY DRAWING QUESTION Thursday, August 9 July Meeting Recap 7:30 pm We are fortunate that El Nativo There are many reasons that by Steven Gerischer ................ 2 Nursery will provide plants for plant lovers are inspired to Friendship Auditorium Sharing Secrets responses to : the Opportunity Drawing at propagate plants, sometimes 3021 Riverside Drive What is the most inspirational our August meeting. just to see if one can. Ripe seeds public or private garden Los Angeles are enticing, as are favorite A selection of plants from you've ever visited? .............. 2 We meet the second Thursday plants you can’t find elsewhere. members will also be for sale. Sharing Table at August Meeting, of each month at 7:30 pm ______________________________ The Sharing Secrets question Come Join In! ........................... 2 for August is: It is free to SCHS members and PRESENTATION BY INTERN May Green Sheet by Jorge Ochoa $5 for non-members without a KIMBERLY COMPEAU What is the first plant and Sula Vanderplank ....... 3-4 guest pass. AT AUGUST 9 MEETING you ever propagated Society News: Intern Kimberly Bring one or more plants, Kimberly Compeau, the successfully? Compeau, Growing Natives flowers, seeds or fruits to recipient of the SCHS 2012 Symposium, Donations to our display at the Plant Forum and Linda Pomerance Grant, will You can answer on the cards Silent Auction, SCHS election receive a free Exhibitor’s Ticket give a presentation on her we’ll supply at our August 9 results ....................................... 5 for the Opportunity Drawing. meeting or e-mail your experience at the Huntington Upcoming Programs ................. 6 Botanical Gardens. Read her response to [email protected] article on page 5. by Friday, August 10. Whom To Contact ................... 6 The August Meeting Matthew’s current book, The Revolutionary Matthew spoke at a Gardening Under Matthew Levesque: Yardscape, is a celebration of the “Reduce/ Mediterranean Skies symposium years ago, Reuse/Recycle” mantra we’ve all been where he showed images of his tumbled The Revolutionary learning and a subject he speaks about often glass and terra cotta. He used the term Yardscape and practices with obvious flair. The book “urbanite” for broken, recycled concrete. I, was published by Timber Press in 2010 and for one, have appropriated that term and use has been garnering praise and great reviews it every occasion possible (though I do credit since then. Mr. Levesque). The core idea here is perspective and perception. One man’s trash We throw away so much in our “disposable can become someone else’s garden treasure. society” and it is refreshing to see such creative uses for what others deem refuse. - By Steven Gerischer ______________________________ Owen Dell mentions in his talks about throwing things “away” and then asks, “Where’s away? Have you been there?” It’s AUGUST SELECTED BOOK a pertinent question and one we need to ask The Revolutionary every time we are disposing of things, Yardscape was particularly things that will probably outlast written by our us in a landfill. featured speaker, Aaron Kramer, an artist who creates Matthew amazing pieces using cast-offs says, “Trash Levesque. Designing Through Reuse is the failure of imagination.” There is no Copies will be failure of imagination here. The book is available for The speaker for our August 9 meeting will filled with projects utilizing everything from purchase at our be Matthew Levesque. Mr. Levesque plastic straps from shipping pallets to old meeting and a book signing will follow the operates Building Resources and the Red tool boxes. presentation. Shovel Glass Company, San Francisco’s only The how-to instructions are clear and easy to Published by Timber Press; October 2010. non-profit building materials salvage yard follow and, while every project might not be Paperback and tumbled glass manufacturing facility. for you it’s hard to resist making your own 8.1 x 9.1 inches, 192 pages The focus of his presentation will be on rain chain or trying some of the remarkable 207 color photographs integrating reuse into contemporary lighting ideas he uses. landscape practice. Member price: $18.00; List price: $22.95 2 J U L Y M E E T I N G & M O R E Secret contributorS July Meeting Recap One of the places pictured was very familiar to Mr. Watters, since a relative of his had La Ninfa Gardens in Italy and Sissinghurst The Southern California Horticultural designed the pictured garden. The slides can Castle in England. be viewed at the LOC website at: loc.gov/ Society’s July 12 meeting program featured Rodin Museum Garden in Paris. a presentation of images that were taken pictures/collection/fbj/. 1) Giverny in France. early in the last century. It was also an We would like to thank Sam Watters for an 2) Butchart Gardens in Victoria Canada. illuminating history lesson, a commentary enjoyable evening of history and all that _______________ on the art of photography and a fascinating surrounds the work of Frances Johnston. A view of society at the time the images were limited number of his book, Gardens for a Add your response to this question on our developed. Beautiful America, were for sale and went Facebook page discussion board or on our The talk was given by Sam Watters and was quickly. Mr. Watters graciously signed MemberLodge website page. coordinated with the recent publication of copies. _______________________ his book, Gardens for a Beautiful America, The book is available from Amazon.com at: SHARING TABLE AT AUGUST MEETING, 1895-1935. This book is a collection of amazon.com/Beautiful-1895-1935-Photographs- photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Benjamin-Johnston/dp/0926494155/ref=sr_1_1? COME JOIN IN! Johnston, a photographer-lecturer, and s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1342200433&sr=1-1& Inspired by our August speaker, Matthew shows not just a look at gardens after the keywords=gardens+for+a+beautiful+america Levesque, author of The Revolutionary turn of the last century, but represents an +1895-1935. Yardscape, Kathy Musial suggested that we entire social push to “better” the nation. We would like to thank Matilija Nursery for have a Sharing Table at our August 9 Originally meant as a lantern slide show providing the Opportunity Drawing plants meeting, akin to the one at our December accompanied by a talk, the photos had been and John Schoustra for bringing them. meetings. hand tinted to enhance their appeal to the special audience for which they were Thanks as well to everyone who helps set- From the Timber Press website: up, run and clean up after the meeting. Stick intended. “…From making pathways out of scrap around some night and lend a hand! We wood and metal to creating garden lights Mr. Watters showed how these pictures would welcome the help. were not just “pretty” representations of from discarded indoor fixtures, The - By Steven Gerischer gardens and landscapes, but were meant to Revolutionary Yardscape features dozens of convey ideas of design and propriety to a _______________________ garden design projects and inspirational well-heeled audience in a position to use ideas for taking advantage of salvaged this information to beautify a nation fighting SHARING SECRETS materials found in the home, junkyard, or urban blight, pollution and the scars of the In July, we posed the question “What is the thrift store...” Industrial Revolution. most inspirational public or private garden Kathy said she has “been cleaning out my you’ve ever visited?” Get your passport Frances Benjamin Johnston presented her garage and it gave me an idea. I have a ready to visit some of these favorites. illuminated lectures across the nation, whole flotilla of items I’ve gathered over the mainly to garden groups and societies of Kew Gardens in London. I make sure I years with the idea of repurposing them in women agitating for change, many of them spend two days there when going through the garden. But they’ve accumulated and the wives of the very men made wealthy by London. Trees are allowed to grow freely to inspiration has not struck, or they didn’t heavy industries that had left the inner cities become what they wish. There is always work as intended. But a different kind of in such a sorry state. something different to see in many inspiration did strike.” greenhouses and plantings. I can get lost for One of the most telling of the sets of pictures many hours of total delight. Join Kathy and other members by bringing presented showed Ms. Johnston as she garden and non-garden items to our August - Leslie Walker represented herself to these groups: one in a 9 meeting to share with other attendees who quiet dress, well coifed and wearing a 1) Trauttmansdorff Castle in Northern Italy. may be able to put them to good use. We simple strand of pearls; and the other image, Beautiful and restful. hope you are inspired to bring those things of the “artiste” wearing a work smock, 2) Giverny you no longer need to our next meeting. stylishly over-large jewelry and a more loose 3) Lotusland Think how good you’ll feel that they’ll be and carefree hairdo. 4) Huntington Botanical Gardens used by appreciative new owners. Both of these photographs were circulated at - Gary Kamisher Come early to get the best selection because the same time, but to very different The Arlington Garden in Pasadena (corner you can start taking the items you want as audiences. The separations in the social soon as they’re placed down.

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