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February 2021
The COVID-19 outbreak has forced cancellation of most events and closure of many public spaces. Some venues are beginning to open back up up, but please contact the venues before committing anything to your calendar.
Submitted by Yvonne Savio
Contact each location to confirm the listed event, for details, and for a full schedule.
Events are free with admission unless otherwise indicated.
For more events as they’re posted, see https://www.gardeninginla.net/submit-your-garden-events.html
ONLINE WEBINARS and EVENTS February 2021
Thursday, 02-04-21, 10:00am
Online Webinar - Agaves for the Landscape; with Gregg Starr
The Burbank Valley Garden Club
The Burbank Valley Garden Club hosts Greg Starr, author and owner of the Starr Nursery in Arizona, discussing some of the best agave species for use in landscapes and containers as well as ideas for planting and care of agaves. Cost = Free. Pre-registration required. For Zoom access and more information, contact Noella Ballenger, Noella1b@aol.com, 818-954-0933, www.californiagardenclubs.com/burbank-valley
Saturday, 02-06-21, 09:30 to 11:00am
Online Webinar - UCLA Extension Horticulture Program Information Session
UCLA Extension Horticulture Program
Interested in taking your passion and turning it into a career? The UCLA Horticulture & Gardening program offers a wide range of programs and courses to get you on your way. Whether you are looking for a new career path or desire the knowledge to care for your own landscape more efficiently, we have the course for you. This free information session covers program certificate curriculum, specializations, individual courses, schedules, and fees associated with taking this new "green" path. Led by the program director, former students, and a current instructor, we've got the answers to all your questions. We will offer discounts on select courses for NEW program students who attend this open house. Cost = Free. For more information and to register: https://www.uclaextension.edu/landscape-architecture-horticulture/horticulture-gardening/course/horticulture-gardening-open-house. Or contact Melissa McDonald, mmcdonald@uclaextension.edu, 310-825-9586.
Thursday, 02-11-21 , 7:30pm
Online Webinar - Cultivating Place: How a Garden Culture of Care Strengthens Places and Their People, with Jennifer Jewell
Southern California Horticultural Society
The Southern California Horticultural Society is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Jewell as its first speaker in the Ruth Borun Lecture Series. Jewell’s program will explore the philosophy of her Cultivating Place podcast; that gardens/gardeners are powerful agents and spaces for potentially positive change in our world. They are helping to address challenges as wide-ranging as climate change, habitat loss, cultural polarization, and individual and communal health and being. This is exemplified by the important plant-based work being done by women around the world profiled in the Jennifer’s book The Earth in Her Hands, and the innovative place-based gardens that celebrate western landscapes in the Jennifer’s upcoming book, Under Western Skies. Jennifer Jewell is the host of the national award-winning weekly public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden. She is the author of The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants (Timber Press in 2020), and Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast (due out from Timber Press in April 2021). Her greatest passion is elevating the way we think and talk about gardening, the empowerment of gardeners, and the possibility inherent in the intersection between culture and gardens. Cost = Free, but Registration is required for Zoom access. Go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6016099518024/WN_wZDMMjLsR_im-WwGkFIiywm For questions about this event, email socalhort@gmail.com
OTHER VENUES
Armstrong Garden Centers
Including Anaheim, Claremont, Costa Mesa, Glendora, Huntington Beach, Irvine, La Canada-Flintridge, La Crescenta, Laguna Niguel, La Habra, Long Beach, Monrovia, Newport, Pasadena, Santa Monica, Sherman Oaks, Thousand Oaks, Torrance, Tustin, Westchester.
Garden Centers are open (with restrictions) for in person shopping. Online ordering, curbside pickup and delivery available.
California Botanic Garden (formerly Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden)
1500 North College Avenue
Claremont 91711
909-625-8767
calbg.org (formerly rsabg.org)
Gardens open with limited capacity. Check website for current listings and online content.
Grow Native Nursery open for online ordering and curbside pickup.
California Native Plant Society – San Gabriel Mountains Chapter
Eaton Canyon Nature Center
1750 North Altadena Drive
Pasadena 91107
818-398-5420
California Native Plant Society – Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains Chapter
First United Methodist Church
1008 11th Street
Santa Monica 90403
818-782-9346
Check website for current listings.
California Native Plant Society – Los Angeles/Santa Monica Mountains Chapter
Sepulveda Garden Center
16633 Magnolia Blvd
Encino 91436
818-782-9346
Check website for current listings.
California Rare Fruit Growers – South Bay Chapter
South Coast Botanic Garden
26300 Crenshaw Blvd
Palos Verdes Peninsula 90274
310-765-0570
https://crfg.org/home/chapters/california/south-bay/
Check website for current listings.
Coastkeeper Garden
1560 East Santiago Canyon Road
Orange 92869
714-850-1965
Check website for current listings.
Descanso Gardens
1418 Descanso Drive
La Canada Flintridge 91011
818-949-7980
Gardens are open with limited capacity. Check website for current listings and online content.
Desert Horticultural Society of the Coachella Valley
UCR Palm Desert
75-080 Frank Sinatra Drive
Palm Desert 92211
www.deserthorticulturalsociety.org
Check website for current listings.
Eaton Canyon Nature Center
1750 North Altadena Drive
Pasadena 91107
626-398-5420
Check website for current listings.
El Dorado Nature Center
7550 E. Spring Street
Long Beach 90815
562-570-1745
http://www.longbeach.gov/park/park-and-facilities/parks-centers-pier/el-dorado-nature-center/
Check website for current listings.
Fullerton Arboretum
1900 Associated Road
Fullerton 92831
657-278-3407
CLOSED. Check website for current listings and online content.
Huntington Botanical Gardens
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino 91108
626-405-2100
Open with limited capacity - tickets required. Check website for current listings and online content.
J Paul Getty Museum – Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles 90049
310-440-7300
CLOSED. Check website for current listings and online content.
J Paul Getty Museum – Getty Villa
17985 Pacific Coast Highway
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
310-440-7300
CLOSED. Check website for current listings and online content.
Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden
301 North Baldwin Ave
Arcadia 91007
626-821-4623
Open with limited capacity - tickets required. Check website for current listings and online content.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
900 Exposition Blvd
Los Angeles 90007
213-763-3466
Open with limited capacity - tickets required. Check website for current listings and online content.
Rancho Los Alamitos Historic Ranch
6400 East Bixby Hill Road
Long Beach 90815
562-431-3541
https://www.rancholosalamitos.org/
Open with limited capacity - tickets required. Check website for current listings and online content.
Rancho Los Cerritos
4600 Virginia Road
Long Beach 90807
562-206-2040
http://www.rancholoscerritos.org/
Open with limited capacity - tickets required. Check website for current listings and online content.
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society
Church of the Nazarene
1307 E Citrus Avenue
Redlands, CA 92374
Frank Herendeen 909-793-3333
http://redlandsgardenclub.com/index.html
Check website for current listings.
Roger’s Gardens
2301 San Joaquin Hills Road
Corona del Mar, CA 92625
949-640-5800
Garden Center is open. Online ordering, curbside pickup and delivery options are also available.
San Diego Botanic Garden
230 Quail Gardens Drive
Encinitas CA 92024
760-436-3036
Open with limited capacity - tickets required. Check website for current listings and online content.
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
1212 Mission Canyon Rd.
Santa Barbara 93105
805-682-4726
Open with limited capacity - tickets required. Check website for current listings and online content.
Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
909 N La Cumbre Road
Santa Barbara 93110
805-684-5725
Check website for listings.
South Coast Botanic Garden
26300 Crenshaw Blvd
Palos Verdes Peninsula 90274
310-544-1948
www.southcoastbotanicgarden.org/
The Garden is Open to Members with advance reservations and to online ticket-buyers. We are no longer accepting in-person payments. In order to limit attendance, all visitors and Members must reserve tickets in advance.
Southern California Horticultural Society
Friendship Auditorium
3201 Riverside Drive
Los Angeles CA 90027
818-567-1496
Second Thursdays 7:15-8:30pm. SCHS meetings start with Announcements and the Plant Forum at 7:15pm, followed by the featured speaker. Online Webinar - TBD To register, see our Monthly Meetings Page.
Theodore Payne Foundation
10459 Tuxford Street
Sun Valley 91352
818-768-1802
Online ordering and curbside pickup available.
ONLINE WEBINARS AND CLASSES - CHECK WEBSITE FOR CALENDAR
University of California Riverside Botanic Garden
900 University Avenue
Riverside 92521
951-784-6962
CLOSED. Check website for current listings and online content.
University of California South Coast Research & Extension Center
7601 Irvine Blvd
Irvine 92618
949-653-1810
http://screc.ucanr.edu/Extension_Outreach_-_Education/
Check website for current listings.