Lectures
Sponsored by Armstrong Garden Centers
FRIDAY, MAY 2
11am | Steve Goto, Tomato Guru | Garden Chat Tent
Growing Tomatoes Organically
Everything you need to know about growing organic heirloom tomatoes! Steve Goto’s top 25 Tomato Picks have become legendary so be sure to visit the Tomatomania booth and Arboretum Plants Tent after the tomato talk. There will be a great selection of Steve’s fabulous plants. www.gotomato.us.com
12 Noon | Jan Smithen, Author & Legendary Fanatic Gardener Teacher | Palm Room
10 Great Plants for your Summer Dry Garden
Tough and reliable, these outstanding plants can take the heat and dry soils that characterize our summers. Yet they each contribute color and interest to the beauty of your garden. Jan is the author of Sun-Drenched Gardens - Mediterranean Style, and the instructor for over 20 years of the Fanatic Gardener classes at The Arboretum. jsmithen@verizon.net
1pm | Jeff Moore, Owner | Solana Succulents Nursery Palm Room
Under the Succulent Sea…and more
A surfer and snorkeler, Jeff combined his extensive knowledge of succulents with his love of the sea to produce an amazing succulent coral reef garden, winner of the Best in Show and Sweepstakes Awards several years ago at the Del Mar Fair. He has also created undersea gardens for Sea World, the Philadelphia Flower Show, and a permanent garden at Quail Botanical Garden (also considered a “fire-wise and water-wise” garden). His nursery is known for unique and exotic succulents so don’t miss his “show and tell” and his talk about designing with succulents. www.solanasucculents.com
2pm | Gary Jones, Plantsman | Armstrong Garden Centers Palm Room
Tropiterranean: New Wave California Garden Style
Gary Jones takes a look at an exciting new trend where landscapes composed of low water Mediterranean plants provide sustainable backdrops for seasonal, over-the-top container gardens of dramatic tropical plants. Gary is a popular lecturer whose nursery, Hortus, was famous for extraordinary plants, remarkably innovative classes and knowledgeable staff. www.armstronggarden.com
3pm | Keith & Debbie Zary | Jackson & Perkins Palm Room
Modern Roses –Easier Than You Think!
Roses have enchanted audiences for years with their beauty, history and symbolism. However, as with all superstars, roses have also slowly developed a reputation for being high-maintenance and finicky. Modern rose breeding has changed all that. Roses are now the easiest, most care-free, free-flowering perennials on the market and can be grown in any type of setting – mass plantings, mixed perennial beds and containers. Keith and Debbie will introduce exciting new products that make rose planting and growing easier and more rewarding than ever before! Keith will also provide a glimpse of how biotechnology is opening the door to a whole new world of rose breeding possibilities. www.jacksonandperkins.com
SATURDAY, MAY 3
11am | Joe Brosius, Owner, Magic Growers, Inc. | Garden Chat Tent
Magic Plants for Magic Gardens
Welcome to a “show and tell” presentation with live plants to see, touch and smell! Joe will bring great plants from his wholesale nursery for gardeners to use to create beautiful and sustainable garden spaces in Southern California. Learn from the expert, and then visit The Arboretum Plants Tent to decide which ones you can’t live without! www.magicgrowers.com
12 Noon | Pamela Berstler, Landscape Designer | Palm Room
Sustainable Landscapes in Thought, Word, and Deed
The practices of low-impact development and sustainable landscaping demonstrate a responsible way to live in our chosen and native place. This discussion will show you why here in Southern California, the most powerful political statement of our time may start with removing the front lawn. In 1997, Pamela Berstler founded FLOWER to the PEOPLE, Inc., an exterior design and outdoor lifestyle firm dedicated to promoting the principles of sustainable design. Her work focuses on creating sublime outdoor living environments that embrace water and energy efficiencies, natural and native habitat, organic maintenance protocols, recycled and local materials, and fair labor practices. Pamela is a Founding Member of G3 LA, LLC, a Los Angeles-based organization devoted to educating homeowners, design professionals, and the surrounding community in the latest eco-restorative landscape techniques. www.flowertothepeople.com
1pm | Mayita Dinos, Landscape Designer |Palm Room
Beauty in a Balanced Landscape
Don’t fall for just another ‘pretty face’ whose beauty is merely skin deep. Get hooked on gardens that derive their beauty from inspired design and the wisdom of deep ecology. Explore gardens that are in synchronicity with their surroundings and tread lightly upon the earth’s resources. Mayita Dinos Garden Design has been designing gardens for people, butterflies, birds, and bees for almost two decades. Dinos’ most current work in progress, the Arlington Garden in Pasadena, is a three-acre demonstration garden showcasing practices and techniques appropriate to our mediterranean climate. In her newest venture as a Founding Member of G3 LA, LLC, she is realizing her dream of promoting the latest eco-restorative landscape techniques, and low-impact development principles to homeowners, design professionals and the surrounding community. mdgarden@ca.rr.com
2pm | Susanne Jett, Landscape Designer | Palm Room
Healthy Landscapes From the Ground Up
Explore common sense methods of converting a stagnant, lifeless turf-dominated space, into a dynamic, bio-enriched environment. Learn how to bring more LIFE into your life--from the ground up! Susanne Jett is a landscape designer/contractor and owner/operator of Jettscapes Landscape. She has been designing private and public Southern California-friendly gardens and landscapes for twenty-seven years. She has provided landscape consulting services to the City of Santa Monica since 1990. Susanne is a Founding Member of G3 LA, LLC, a Los Angeles-based organization devoted to educating the surrounding community in the latest eco-restorative landscape techniques and promoting the principles of low-impact development. Jettscape@earthlink.net
3pm | Nicholas Staddon, Director of New Plant Introductions, Monrovia Growers | Garden Chat Tent
Smokers and Head Turners, a look at Cool Sustainable New and Notable Plants
Take a first hand look at some of the newest and most notable sustainable plants from Monrovia. Nicholas Staddon shares some of his treasures collected from all over the world. Whether you have a large, mid-sized, or small garden……wait, maybe just room for a couple of containers, there will be something to delight everyone. Monrovia has been a leader in the acquisition, trialing and promotion of new plants for the past eighty years. Typically, only one in fifty plants under observation makes it through Monrovia’s rigorous evaluation process. Listen to Nicholas’ fascinating accounts of where the plants come from, and actually meet these new plants…and then go to The Arboretum Plants Tent to purchase your favorites! nstaddon@monrovia.com ; www.monrovia.com
SUNDAY, MAY 4
11am | Lili Singer, Horticulturist, Garden Writer & Educator | Garden Chat Tent
The Pleasures of Going Native
Discover the sensory joys of gardening with California natives -- year-round color, fragrance and bird song – and such vital benefits as low-maintenance, resource conservation and species preservation. An assortment of live native plants will be shown, touched and sniffed. Fun for kids of all ages. Lili is the Special Projects Coordinator for Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants, and leads the popular Thursday Garden Chats at The Arboretum." lili@theodorepayne.org ; www.theodorepayne.org
12 Noon | Steven Gerischer, Landscape Designer | Palm Room
How to Survive Without Your Lawn
Don’t miss this talk about ways to get rid of, or reduce your lawn plus give you strategies for what to put in its place, with an emphasis on a drought resistant/eco-friendly approach to gardening. Put your lawnmower out to pasture, ditch the edger, forget the chemicals-and there's still a place to put up a hammock! sglarkspur@aol.com
1pm | Amy Stewart | Palm Room
Behind the Scenes in the Global Flower Market
Amy Stewart traveled around the world to learn more about the extraordinary business of flowers. At laboratories, greenhouses, airports, warehouses, and flower shops, she discovered a remarkable intersection of nature and technology, of sentiment and commerce. She told the story in her bestselling book, Flower Confidential—The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers. What has been gained—and what has been lost—in the quest for the perfect flower? Does it matter if roses have lost their scent? How do we respond to a lily that has been bred for the convenience of the grower, not the desires of the customer? Are we better off with 209 varieties of daisies to choose from? In a global marketplace, is there such a thing as a socially responsible flower? Join Stewart for an exploration of the individuals, the corporations, and the technology dedicated to the pursuit of the perfect flower. You’ll never look at a rose the same way again. Book signing to follow.
amy@amystewart.com ; www.amystewart.com
2pm | Stephanie Georgieff | Palm Room
Native Herbal Remedies
Stephanie will present an historical and scientific overview of native California plants used in medicinal remedies, including the art, science and folklore of many local plants that can be added to your own garden. Learn tips on how to grow and process plants that are not only healing to your body, but also esthetically pleasing to your soul. Stephanie is a naturopath and an herbalist, has a Masters of Science in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but may be more well-known locally to long-time Arboretum visitors as the narrator of the famous Brother Cadfael Murder in the Garden mystery series, held as part of the Tour & Taste dinners held a few years ago at The Arboretum. She performed this role for 8 years! H greenstefka@yahoo.com ; www.GreenRx.org
3pm | Jill Vig | Garden Chat Tent & Garden Tour
Love the Climate You Are In! plus a Tour of the Water Conservation Garden
We end our three-day bonanza of plants, chats and garden designs with a tour of one of the most popular and enduring of The Arboretum’s gardens, the Water Conservation Garden, established in 1988 by the Henry C. Soto family to demonstrate that home gardens can be beautiful and lush with minimal water usage. Jill Vig, curator of the garden since 1993, will discuss the palette of plants from the mediterranean regions of the world (including California), the culture and care of these undemanding performers, and recent renovations. jill@ryanmiller.com
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