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The Dry Garden: Trees shed their winter coats | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
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Bark hides in plain sight. Who needs the superhero power of invisibility when you’re constantly upstaged by flowers, fruit and foliage? It takes an event to draw the distracted eye to the trunk and limbs of a shrub or tree. That event is happening now. With the summer solstice nigh, California’s bes...
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The ultimate green light: an algae-powered lamp | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
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Inspired by a recent experiment in which scientists at Stanford University and Yonsei University in Seoul generated an electrical current from algae during photosynthesis, Netherlands-based designer Mike Thompson has created a prototype for an algae-powered lamp, Designboom reports. Thompson describ...
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New Butterfly Pavilion to open Saturday at Claremont's Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden | L.A. at Hom
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When students from L.A.'s West Adams Preparatory High School received an early morning preview of the new Butterfly Pavilion at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont on Wednesday, most of the butterflies were napping. “It’s a double-edged sword,” said Rancho Santa Ana research associate Rober...
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Master gardener in training: Ladybugs are good, but lacewings and mantises may be better | L.A. at H
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The question is when, not if, aphids will find your tomatoes, or caterpillar holes will appear on the eggplants. For dealing with the inevitable pest incursion, my UC Extension Master Gardener class has been taught integrated pest management, which considers plant selection, physical barriers, trapp...
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Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
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We've listed select home and garden events below. Suggest your own via reader comments. Submissions must contain fewer than 75 words and must be for one-time events with legitimate value to other readers. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. L.A. at Home staff will determine which sub...
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Earwigs? Pah. Ants and bedbugs pose bigger problems | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
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Earwigs may seem to be everywhere, as Jeff Spurrier blogged earlier this morning, but that's not all that's bugging Southern Californians. "Earwigs calls are prevalent, but Argentine ants are still the No. 1 pest we battle in California," said Nancy Ringman, spokeswoman... for Anaheim-based Western Ext...
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Exotic Pebbles opens in Redondo Beach | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
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The recently opened Exotic Pebbles garden center in Redondo Beach is like a jewelry shop of rocks. Imported stones with names such as Snow White, Black Ash and Sea Green are shown outside in garden settings, where the stones are presented in graphic patterns or more organic arrangements. Inside the ...
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Earwig invasion! Pest inundating gardens eats your fruit -- and those nasty aphids too | L.A. at Hom
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If you’ve noticed more damage than usual to bean seedlings, lettuce or strawberries this spring, don’t automatically blame snails or aphids. Those ragged holes in leaves or tiny holes gored into fruit could be the work of earwigs. Earwigs are everywhere this year, or so it seems. The bugs love moist...
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Woolly School Garden, a vertical landscape for kids | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
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I’ve been smitten with Woolly Pockets ever since they came on the market in the spring of 2009. The fuzzy, brightly colored planters create an instant vertical garden without any complicated construction. Just fill the pockets with dirt, pop in a seedling or some seeds, and water. They're simple, th...
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The Dry Garden: At lawn-loving UCLA, a small yet seismic shift in the landscape | L.A. at Home | Los
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Nobody ever said that doing the right thing was easy. Students in UCLA Extension’s landscape architecture and horticulture program now learn this before leaving with a certificate. “All of our advanced design classes used to be make-believe,” said Stephanie Landregan, appointed program director two ...
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Will the weekend stink? Corpse flower gets close to blooming, Huntington says | L.A. at Home | Los A
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Thursday afternoon the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino posted a coy message on its Twitter account: "A fly has been spotted buzzing around the Corpse Flower bud. Does he know something?" Officials later released a statement declaring that Amorphophallus titanu...
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Bountiful Gardens, a nursery popular with the pros, opens to the public by appointment | L.A. at Hom
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Ever been on a garden tour marveling at the novel blossoms and elaborately shaped trees, wondering where one buys such exotic flora? One place lies below the 210 Freeway in Lakeview Terrace. That's where plantsman David Diaz runs Bountiful Gardens, a small but prolific nursery where he’s been raisin...
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Santa Monica announces winners of contest to design sustainable demonstration gardens | L.A. at Home
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A month after I reported on the city of Santa Monica's design competition for three sustainable demonstration gardens, the public has voted on the three designs to be constructed on side-by-side plots on Airport Avenue. The winners: Marianne Simon of Poetic Plantings was noted for her design's perme...
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Master gardener in training: Battling bugs | L.A. at Home | Los Angeles Times
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Caterpillar 1, bean plant 0. In the UC Extension Master Gardener class, I've learned about the romance of seeds and seedlings, the chemistry of compost and mulch. Now it's time to face the less pleasant realities of the garden: pests -- more specifically, expert recommendations for fighting them off...
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The Dry Garden: Matilija poppies take the stage, showgirls of Southern California slopes | L.A. at H
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Two unrelated and equally magical things happen in Southern California in late May and early June. By night, courting mockingbirds sing all night. By day, the Matilija poppies begin their all-too-fleeting bloom. The shame is, while most everyone who sleeps becomes aware of the mockingbird’s song, no...