Anarchy In The Garden

Weekend Guide is Back!

By Adriana Friday March 5, 2010

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I’ll be at my first Master Gardener training class on Saturday but I will be at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Sunday. Looking forward to Taste of Life and Delilah’s demos. LA, come through!

Stand and Contribute
Fundraiser for Stand and Deliver’s Jaime Escalante
What: Raising money for famed teacher stricken with bladder cancer.
Why: Face it, you’d be an “at risk adult” without teachers like him. Thank you Mrs. Olona!
When: Saturday, March 6 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Garfield High School, 5101 East Sixth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90022

**Can’t donate in person? Contributions can be sent to “Friends of Jaime,” C/O FASE, 236 West Mountain Street, Suite 105, Pasadena, CA 91103. Call 626-793-5300 for information.

Live Cans!
What: Delilah Snell, Patchwork Indie Arts & Crafts co-founder, eco store owner, The Road Less Traveled, & master food preserver will teach you how to can, pickle & preserve.
Why: Laura Ingalls Wilder has nothing on you.
When: Sunday, March 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Hollywood Farmers Market, 1600 Ivar Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Sleeping off a hangover? No prob. Delilah is teaching a second class.

What: Pickles and more – preparation, food safety, equipment operation, recipes and samples!
Why: Um, hello?
When: Sunday, March 7 from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Where: KTCHN 105, 1250 Long Beach Ave #105, Los Angeles, CA 90021. P: 714-720-2260

**More classes here.

PS, high five to Lindsay William-Ross of the LA Weekly Squid Ink blog for visiting me in Long Beach. Read the kick ass story here.

LA Weekly Squid Ink Blog - Punk Rock + Pruners = Long Beach's Anarchy in the Garden (March 1, 2010)

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Lexicon. Rebel.

By Adriana Thursday March 4, 2010

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I’m not a wordsmith like Darby Crash but I did manage to scribe two articles for the March Home & Garden issue of Long Beach Magazine. Both topics are near and dear to my heart but I am especially proud of the Long Beach City Horticulture Program story.

The Horticulture Program at LBCC offers a Certificate of Achievement and Associate in Science degree. The curriculum offered rivals that of Mt. San Antonio College and Cal Poly Pomona.

Tidbits not included in the article. Kathy Alford of Alford’s English Gardens is a former student as is instructor Jorge Ochoa. Prior to returning to LBCC to teach, Jorge earned an A.S. in Horticulture from Los Angeles Trade-Tech College and a B.S. in Horticulture with a minor in Plant Pathology from Cal Poly Pomona.

Just in time for the 38^th Annual Plant Sale, the horticulture garden will display a California native garden suitable for small spaces, water-wise plants, and hundreds of tomato varieties.

H&H Nursery is a blooming gem just a short jaunt north on Lakewood Blvd. I was tickled to have spent an hour listening to H&H proprietor Jeff Shibata. He shared history – H&H stands for His and Hers, and his vision of what the future of gardening looks like. Hint: edibles are so 2010.

Above photos courtesy of fave photog Lisa Callamaro of A Squid’s Eye View of the Garden. Pick up a copy of Long Beach magazine!

My constant inspiration, The Germs – Lexicon Devil. Always frenzied, never duplicated.

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What’s in a name? That which we call a rose…

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Sansevieria trifasciata should be so lucky. It’s dubbed Mother-In-Law’s Tongue or Snake Plant. Lanky, stiff and with a formidable appearance it has been one of my least favorite plants. Until today.
This morning the Long Beach City College Horticulture Landscape Maintenance class mass planted an assortment of Sansevieria species in front of the Aviation and Automotive Technology [...]

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Garden Mash Up – No Rhyme or Reason

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No sooner that I declared a new feature, Weekend Guide to Doing Stuff, I go and miss a weekend. I blame it on Herbaceous Plant ID class. Aeonium arboreum Atropurpureum – Identify it and spell it. That’s an easy one.
But it hasn’t been all fun and Latin. I mass sowed hundreds of seeds including [...]

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For the Love of Compost – A Tale of Roses and Horse Manure

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From botrytis blight to thrips roses get a bum rap and rightly so. They’re susceptible to all sorts of gnarly fungal diseases and house unwelcome guests. Currently, my sole Chris Evert rose bush suffers from rust. If I’m lucky I get a few blooms and efflorescence is always staggered. Hmpf.
The secret to the beautiful blooms [...]

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Weekend Guide to Doing Stuff

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I’ve heard it one too many times, “que pasa this weekend?! Translation for my non-Spanglish speaking friends, “what’s going on this weekend?!”
Starting today and continuing every Friday thereafter, I will be posting some of the stuff I cram pack my weekend with because you know you want in.
If you find yourself in the Long Beach [...]

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