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Gardening

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    Mayita Dinos: Much Ado About Water

    One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Mayita Dinos' soft hands belie the fact that she's dug through acres of stubborn subsoil on a one-woman crusade to mulch, harrow and hoe as much of Los Angeles as possible. She ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Post & Beam Launches Gardening Club This Weekend

    Looking to get dirty this weekend? Baldwin Hill's Post & Beam is launching the first of its summer series of Gardening Club workshops this weekend with help from horticulturalist Geri Miller and head chef Govind Armstrong. The arrival of spring means that vegetables like basil, peppers, squash, eggp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    What's In A Rose Name? The Food Hybrid Tea Varietals (Whiskey, Too) Planning Your Own Rose Cocktail Garden

    Wander around any formal rose garden with name plaques this time of year (The Huntington, Palisades Park in Santa Monica), and you'll likely bump into several Hollywood celebrity stunners like Marilyn Monroe (a tall apricot flower with "large bloom size," per the official description). In the rose-n ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    The Huntington's Japanese Garden Reopens With a New Teahouse

    The Huntington Library's circa 1911 Japanese Garden reopened Wednesday after a nearly $7 million renovation, including the addition of a historic ceremonial teahouse built in Kyoto. The teahouse first arrived in the L.A. area in 1964, when it was installed at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple; In 2010 th ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    March 15, 2012

    Rubus Ursinus: A Guide to the Elusive Pacific Blackberry

    The Huntington Library's circa 1911 Japanese Garden reopened Wednesday after a nearly $7 million renovation, including the addition of a historic ceremonial teahouse built in Kyoto. The teahouse first arrived in the L.A. area in 1964, when it was installed at the Pasadena Buddhist Temple; In 2010 th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    With Occupy Gone, City Hall Ponders a Progressive Landscape

    The ouster of Occupy L.A. left City Hall Park with dirt where once there was turf. And when ideas started coming in about what should be done to restore the landscape that adorns the symbolic center of the city, the range of opinions was something akin to those within Occupy L.A.: widely varied, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    Long Beach Urban Garden Honored

    Guzzle & NoshAssorted vegetables.​In a crime-riddled area of North Long Beach, the Growing Experience has transformed a former trash dump into one of the state's most successful urban farms. This week, TGE was honored with an an Award of Merit from the California State Association of Counties ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Cookbook Review: The Complete Kitchen Garden, Your Weekend Entertainment

    ​If you already consider yourself an urban homesteader, (legal or otherwise), then the recently released The Complete Kitchen Garden: An Inspired Collection of Garden Designs and 100 Seasonal Recipes by Ellen Ecker Ogden probably is not for you. For the rest of us, this hybrid gardening/cookbo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2010

    Melrose Elementary Kids Get Their Hands Dirty with Woolly School Gardens and Chef Andrea Cavaliere El Cholo Feeds Teachers Tonight

    J. RitzChef Andrea Cavaliere from Cecconi's and schoolyard gardeners in training.​ There must be statistics, somewhere, detailing the amount of chain link fencing in the possession of the Los Angeles Unified School District. It seems entirely possible that the sum of the practical-yet-dreary ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 21, 2010

    Looking for Lizards

    So how many lizards are there in L.A.?

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2010

    Orchid Show and Sale

    So how many lizards are there in L.A.?

  • Calendar

    July 29, 2010

    REVENGE OF THE FERNS

    So how many lizards are there in L.A.?

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Pop-Up Shop at Cube Downtown: Cooking Classes, Shopping, Ludo Coolhaus

    Amy SheridanCube overview.​Cube has announced another of their weekend pop-up events, to be held on Saturday, August 14th. Both a restaurant and a marketplace, the downtown institution will also play host to a series of classes. Cube café's executive chef Erin Eastland and pastry chef Jun Ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2010

    Calling All Green Thumbs: Sustainable Sundays and Master Gardening at the Natural History Museum

    ​ The Natural History Museum isn't just about flora, fauna, and fossils. In an effort to make sense of today's gold mine of environmental information, the museum is bringing back its Sustainable Sundays series, and introducing a brand-new gardening workshop for experts and newbies alike.

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2010

    INCREDIBLE EDIBLES

    ​ The Natural History Museum isn't just about flora, fauna, and fossils. In an effort to make sense of today's gold mine of environmental information, the museum is bringing back its Sustainable Sundays series, and introducing a brand-new gardening workshop for experts and newbies alike.

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2010

    What's the Story, Morning Glory?

    Sometimes it's late and the cocktails have started to creep up on you and a double-chili-cheese at Tommy's is the thing. But for us, slightly more often, a hard seat and an order of fried morning glory are just what we need after a night of serious drinking. Nobody knows why morning glory is a veget ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Top 10 Ways to Eat Local in L.A.

    So you've read The Omnivore's Dilemma and watched Food, Inc twice, but you still aren't quite sure how to eat local in Los Angeles. The city is covered in exhaust smoke, and it's harder to imagine growing food here then being one of those people who, um, walk. Still for all its metropolitan appearan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Inch By Inch: Gathering of Community Gardens at Farmlab This Weekend

    If you find yourself considering the current state of your lawn, or questioning how best to garden during a drought, it might be a good idea to head over to the Gathering of Community Gardens conference in downtown LA for some fresh ideas on how to nurture a sustainable garden in the city of Los Ang ... More >>

  • LA Life

    September 10, 2009

    Flower Power: Bend It, Don’t Break It

    If you find yourself considering the current state of your lawn, or questioning how best to garden during a drought, it might be a good idea to head over to the Gathering of Community Gardens conference in downtown LA for some fresh ideas on how to nurture a sustainable garden in the city of Los Ang ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2009

    Worm Teas and Palisades Potagers: Organic Gardening Classes With John Lyons

    John Lyons, the organic gardener and edible landscape designer behind The Woven Garden, offers educational classes to inspire the cabbage farmer within. His 6-week course, "From the Earth Up," covers composting your dinner leftovers, herb garden care, organic pest control, and crop rotation (sans th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    It's Sustainable L.A. Day at the Downtown Film Festival

    Today is Sustainable L.A. day at the L.A. Downtown Film Festival. All afternoon excellent films, photos, and lectures run simultaneously, each picking up where the others left off for a comprehensive perspective on the newest efforts in environmental sustainability. While photographer Rex Bruce's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    When the Growing Gets Tough: Take a Workshop with Silver Lake Farms' Tara Kolla

    Tara Kolla knows gardening can be daunting. Take her case: She works her half-acre backyard and business, Silver Lake Farms, almost entirely by herself. For the past three years, she's been showing beginners the ropes with semi-weekly workshops in her neighborhood. (The next one is Thu., July 30.) A ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 19, 2009

    Looking for Jesus at Home Depot: Or, How a Day Laborer Named Tino Ended Up in a Miller Duvall Music Video

    The gold teeth didn't hurt

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2009

    Gardeners of Eden Suddenly Cast Out

    Freelance gardeners, house cleaners and car-wash employees are among the first workers hit by the recession. With the economy in accelerating freefall, statistics cannot keep up with their deteriorating plight. Still, the physical absence of such workers from neighborhoods and businesses provides pl ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2008

    Flower Drum Dance

    Freelance gardeners, house cleaners and car-wash employees are among the first workers hit by the recession. With the economy in accelerating freefall, statistics cannot keep up with their deteriorating plight. Still, the physical absence of such workers from neighborhoods and businesses provides pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2008

    Los Angeles Median Home Value: $380,000

    Amazing story in this week's Los Angeles Business Journal, which has been beating the hell out of the Los Angeles Times in reporting on all the billionaires in L.A. who have lost vast sums — including Kirk Kerkorian, Sumner Restore, Eli Broad — or those whose companies have vanished or might get ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    July 24, 2008

    Arranged Marriage: Mixing It Up With Flowers and Art

    Amazing story in this week's Los Angeles Business Journal, which has been beating the hell out of the Los Angeles Times in reporting on all the billionaires in L.A. who have lost vast sums — including Kirk Kerkorian, Sumner Restore, Eli Broad — or those whose companies have vanished or might get ... More >>

  • LA Life

    July 19, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Spanish as a First Language

    "What is it with Mexican gardeners? They lop off trees into coat racks, and shear off irises and lilies. It’s all slash and mow and blow."

  • LA Life

    May 24, 2007

    Prayers, Doughnuts and Booze in the Drive-Thru Lane

    Dashboard confidential

  • LA Life

    May 3, 2007

    Wrap It Up, I'll Take It

    Last-minute hostess gift ideas

  • News

    July 20, 2006

    Fuel to the Fire

    A smoldering argument over the causes of the Sawtooth fire. Did the wildflowers do it?

  • News

    June 15, 2006

    Fallow Dreams

    Empty talk doomed South Central Farm

  • LA Life

    June 8, 2006

    Harry, Dykes and Gays

    Empty talk doomed South Central Farm

  • News

    March 16, 2006

    Bushel of Complaints

    Farmers at South Central Community Garden unload on their activist organizers

  • News

    October 6, 2005

    On Native Ground

    Gardening in the asphalt jungle

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    Brown Dirt Cowboys

    Meet Esteban Hills and crew, your gardeners

  • News

    September 16, 2004

    Paradise Created

    Mysterious, private and sensual . . . the backyard in Los Angeles

  • Columns

    March 18, 2004

    Re-Germinated

    Mysterious, private and sensual . . . the backyard in Los Angeles

  • Columns

    January 22, 2004

    Stripping Lessons

    Mysterious, private and sensual . . . the backyard in Los Angeles

  • LA Life

    November 20, 2003

    Expert Advice: Flower Power

    Mysterious, private and sensual . . . the backyard in Los Angeles

  • Columns

    October 16, 2003

    10 Cents a Life

    Mysterious, private and sensual . . . the backyard in Los Angeles

  • Film+TV

    December 12, 2002

    Inside 'Charlie Kaufman'

    The metafictional mayhem in — and behind — Spike Jonze's Adaptation

  • LA Life

    May 23, 2002

    Flower Power

    The metafictional mayhem in — and behind — Spike Jonze's Adaptation

  • News

    April 5, 2001

    Idle Plan

    South Gate power plant could rise again

  • News

    March 22, 2001

    Lights Out

    Proposed power plant flames out in South Gate

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Downey to Power Plant: Drop Dead

    Proposed power plant flames out in South Gate

  • Art+Books

    September 23, 1999

    Flower Power Games

    The delirious rise and acrimonious dissolution of the Eastside Ladies Garden Auxiliary

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    Early Morning Sunset Smells

    Suzy Beal sniffs the boulevard from downtown to the 405, then gives up.

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