by Arlington Garden | Apr 22, 2024 | Announcements, Conservation, Features, Wildlife
(AJPJ) Spring in urban Southern California is … well, the word “unnatural” comes to mind, but it’s prudent to avoid provocation. Safer words might be “novel” or “anachronistic” or “cosmopolitan.” Spring in Southern California is novel. Like last year, we are...
by Arlington Garden | Feb 13, 2024 | Announcements, Arlington, Features
Photos courtesy of Tahereh Sheerazie. This past week, Pasadena received (“received” as in a blessing) 8.1 inches of rain. According to the local paper, that is 40% of our average seasonal rainfall. A representative from the City reported as of last...
by Arlington Garden | Dec 9, 2023 | Announcements, Arlington, Features
2023 has been a year of transformational growth and loss. We received a $100,000 unrestricted grant from the Harold and Colene Brown Foundation in support of our education mission and for the second year welcomed 5th grade students from Pasadena Unified. The students...
by Arlington Garden | Jun 26, 2023 | Announcements
Michelle Matthew (Executive Director of Arlington Garden) and Tahereh Sheerazie (Head Gardener) Goodbye Friend I’ve seen dead trees, but I haven’t seen a tree die before. In February, we noticed moderate dieback on the old coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) along...
by Arlington Garden | Feb 26, 2023 | Announcements, Arlington Overworld, Overworld
Arlington, Overworld is a monthly series devoted to the plants of Arlington Garden. The “overworld” is the highest-level map of a videogame showing mountains, forests, kingdoms, dungeons, and treacherous wastes. Not part of normal gameplay, the overworld facilitates...
by Arlington Garden | Sep 16, 2022 | Announcements, Climate Change Gardening, Conservation, Resilience Gardening
We are reaching the end of a particularly brutal summer, so it is time for a garden update! Let’s start with the obvious. Visitors will notice that the plants in the garden – with some notable exceptions that I’ll mention later – have faded to the subtle colors of...
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