SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY Where passionate gardeners meet to share knowledge and learn from each other. socalhort.org October 2013 Newsletter OUR NEXT MEETING SCHS WELCOMES NEW SHARING SECRETS QUESTION IN THIS ISSUE MEMBERS Thursday, October 10 In anticipation of our September Meeting Recap November meeting, the Sharing by Steven Gerischer............... 2 Friendship Auditorium Secrets question for October is: Sharing Secrets ..........................2 Irma Arvizu ”What is the best garden design 3201 Riverside Drive, Los tip you have ever heard, or Green Sheet by James E. Angeles CA 90027 Mary Mauck read?” You can answer on our Henrich......................................3 7pm. Social Hour MemberLodge website or e- Horticultural Happenings mail your response to: by Bettina Gatti ........................5 [email protected] by Friday, Meeting begins at @8pm. Upcoming 2013 Programs..........6 November 15. The October Meeting use of California native plants. TPF's 22-acre THE TREES OF THE CHAVEZ Native Plant Growers canyon site in Sun Valley (just north of RAVINE ARBORETUM Hollywood Burbank Airport) includes a PART THREE: THE EUCALYPTI Forum year-round California native plant nursery, Thursday, October 10, 2013 offering hundreds of different species and GUIDED TOUR AND PICNIC cultivars; a book, seed and garden tool store; Sunday, October 13, 2013 an art gallery with quarterly exhibitions; a Join SCHS as we return once more to reading library; hiking trails; and an Chavez Ravine Arboretum to discover the education center with classes and field trips wonderful trees in this Los Angeles “hidden for adults and children. Panelist Madena gem.” SCHS tree experts Bart O'Brien Asbell is manager of the Theodore (Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden) and Payne Nursery. James E. Henrich (Los Angeles County Arboretum) will be joined again by Matt Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Ritter (author of A Californian's Guide to the founded in 1927 by Susanna Bixby Bryant, is Trees Among Us). Although we already the largest botanic garden dedicated covered many significant trees on the exclusively to California’s native plants. The Celebrate the fall planting season with a previous two trips, we'll start with the Garden is located on 86 acres in Claremont, panel of professional California native plant Eucalypti on this visit, and see where we approximately 35 miles east of Los Angeles. growers -- Madena Asbell of the Theodore end up. There are so many varieties of RSABG, a private, nonprofit organization, Payne Foundation, Bart O'Brien of Rancho Eucalyptus grown in California, this will be offers educational programs and special Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Bob Sussman a great chance for you to sort them out with events throughout the year and is home of of Matilija Nursery -- sharing their expertise, our experts. the Botany Department for Claremont enthusiasm and beautifully grown plants! Graduate University. RSABG offers superb During the program, each panelist will Park near the Grace E. Simons Lodge at 1025 selection of California native plants for sale describe ten different California natives from Elysian Park Dr., Los Angeles 90012. A map at Grow Native Nursery in Claremont and their nursery, including each plant's history, will be given with confirmation. The tour Westwood, L.A. Panelist Bart O'Brien is unique qualities and cultural requirements. will begin at 10:00 am. We will picnic on the director of special projects at RSABG. No doubt, you'll learn a lot about California grounds at 1:00 p.m. Bring something to eat flora and be inspired to add these and other and share (desserts are always appreciated!). Matilija Nursery, in the scenic hills of native plants to your landscape! We will provide sodas, water and utensils. Moorpark, grows the largest inventory of Bring good walking shoes and a hat and California native plants and non-native These same thirty fabulous native plants will sunscreen if the weather is sunny! irises in Ventura County. Native irises have be offered in the evening's raffle!!! Buy plenty Tour tickets are $5.00 for SCHS Members, long been a specialty. Founded by "Matililja of tickets, support the Society and go home with a $10.00 for non-members. To secure your Bob" Sussman in the early 1990s.and located new California native for your garden! reservation, please sign up online through close to the Simi and San Fernando MemberLodge, or complete and send in the valleys, the nursery serves the retail and The Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild form below, along with your check. If you wholesale trades, as well as restoration Flowers and Native Plants, established have any questions, contact Laura Bauer at: efforts in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and 1960, is a non-profit organization dedicated [email protected] or by phone Ventura counties. to the preservation, propagation, study and 626-437-9459. 2SEPTEMBER MEETING & MORE My favorite California native plant is LA/SANTA MONICA CNPS NATIVE Quercus agrifolia, a great structural stalwart. PLANT SALE September Meeting This tree requires no extra water, is evergreen, and contributes to my Los Angeles / Santa Monica Mountains Recap "mediterranean ambience". Chapter of the California Native Plant -Gloria Leinbach The September meeting of the Southern Society California Horticultural Society was our 2013 Native Plant Sale annual awards banquet honoring the October 26 & 27, 10am to 3:30pm Horticulturist of the Year. This year we Sepulveda Garden Center, 16633 Magnolia honored Professor Dave Lannom, of Mount Blvd., Encino (near Hayvenhurst). San Antonio College. Banquet attendees More than 50 different native plant species! gathered for a lively social hour on the Something for every garden need–seeds, beautiful patios of the Peacock Cafe at the irises, mints, sages, berries, hummingbird & Los Angeles County Arboretum. Our annual butterfly plants, annuals, perennials, shrubs Silent Auction was laid out for early bidding and trees–with experienced CNPS members and guests mingled and talked while to assist you in your selections. Theodore bidding started. The weather was beautiful Payne Foundation seed mixes will be and the late evening light over the REGIONAL LANDSCAPE available as well. Buy a book, field guide, Arboretum grounds and the mountains DESIGN IN SOUTHERN place mats, poster or a CNPS T-shirt. beyond was magical. CALIFORNIA Lunch and snacks for sale. Cash and checks accepted. Dinner was served for over one hundred October 26 & 27 guests who had come to honor “Professor FROM OUR FRIENDS AT PACIFIC Great displays and exhibits by local Dave” and to hear stories of this renowned HORTICULTURE AND THE ASSOCIATION environmental agencies and non-profits. educator. Our tables were decorated with OF PROFESSIONAL LANDSCAPE beautiful centerpieces created from dried DESIGNERS Featuring FREE Native Plant Talks and Book palm fruit clusters, banana leaves and Ceiba Signings (formerly Chorisia) blossoms--all woven Saturday October 26, 2013 1:00pm to 5:00pm together by the talented James E. Henrich. Seminar : You’ll learn how to enhance the For more information or to volunteer call Thanks Jim! Nikki, and her staff at the existing natural beauty of a site through 818-881-3706 or visit www.lacnps.org or find Peacock Cafe did a splendid job of catering your garden designs while using regionally us on Facebook. the delicious meal and tending to all of the appropriate plants that will thrive. needs of our guests. Fleur Nooyen, a former student of Mr. Lannom, and Nicholas Bernard Trainor Noted California landscape Staddon, a coworker with Dave and designer and author of the widely acclaimed SAN GABRIEL CNPS NATIVE PLANT SALE Director of New Plant Introductions at book Landprints. Monrovia, provided colorful comments INTO THE GARDEN: NATIVE PLANT before Dave was presented with his plaque. Carol Bornstein Director of the Nature SALE Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Saturday, November 9, 2013, 9:00 a.m. to Thanks to all at the Arboretum and to our Los Angles County. 2:00 p.m. Board Members who helped make it a Eaton Canyon Nature Center, 1750 Altadena terrific evening. Randy Baldwin General Manager of San Drive, Pasadena, CA See you at Friendship Hall for our October Marcos Growers, Santa Barbara, CA A good variety of reasonably priced meeting, Native Plant Growers Panel. California native plants and wildflower Saturday October 26, 2013 5:00pm seeds appropriate for gardens in the Los -Steven Gerischer Refreshments : Enjoy a beverage and Angeles basin will be available, including conversation with your colleagues at this plants for attracting birds and butterflies to SHARING SECRETS special So Cal APLD hosted cocktail hour. your home garden. Knowledgeable chapter All attendees are invited. members will be on hand to answer In September, we asked you to answer questions. “What is your favorite California native Saturday October 26, 2013 6:00pm We obtain our plants from high-quality local plant in the garden and why?” and here are Dinner : Savor a buffet dinner with your nurseries specializing in native plants. We some of your responses. Read more on our member colleagues and continue also have plants propagated and grown by SCHS MemberLodge website, discussions from the afternoon seminars. members. schs.memberlodge.org. For more information go to: Sunday October 27, 2013 9:00am to 12:00pm www.cnps-sgm.org/garden/plantsale.php Any of the native buckwheats! They thrive Coldwater Canyon Park Walk : Enjoy a without attention in my sandy, non- guided walk through this scenic area to moisture retentive soil, in sun or shade, visualize design possibilities and plant SEE HORT HAPPENINGS PG. 5 FOR MORE most look great all year (easy to prune those options through the eyes of our speakers. NATIVE PLANT SALES! that need it), and are great habitat for bees and butterflies. Questions and information: -Lisa Ceazan Phone: 510-849-1627 | Email: events@pacifichorticulture.org 3 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY JULY 2013 socalhort.org PLANT FORUM NOTES GREEN SHEET Compiled by James E.