by Arlington Garden | Jun 4, 2026 | Conservation, Features, Guest Letters, Resilience Gardening, Wildlife
(Jodhan Fine) Refilling bird feeders could get tedious, but it never actually does. Each time I replenish the birds’ seed [at our new Pasadena Audubon Bird Feeder Garden], I always make sure to stay awhile and watch the birds return to freshly restocked food....
by Arlington Garden | Jun 4, 2026 | Climate Change Gardening, Conservation, Features, Wildlife
(William Hallstrom) The monarchs are once again teeming on the milkweed patches at Arlington. We are lucky, I think, to have a few spontaneous eruptions of narrow leaf milkweed in the garden. Narrow leaf milkweed is our local host to monarch butterflies. This is the...
by Arlington Garden | Apr 22, 2024 | Announcements, Conservation, Features, Wildlife
(AJ Jewell) 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...
by Arlington Garden | May 4, 2023 | Conservation, Features, Wildlife
William Hallstrom is a naturalist, Arlington Garden staff member, photographer, and an active member of the California Native Plant Society. For the past several months, Arlington Garden has welcomed 5th graders from Pasadena Unified School District on trips to the...
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...
by Arlington Garden | Apr 22, 2022 | Conservation, Features, Wildlife
Pictured: Oak-loving Trich (Tricholoma dryophilum) Aaron Tupac is the organizer behind Exploring the Mycoverse, a community science project dedicated to fungi and hosted by Arlington Garden. Tupac-Thompson organizes “fungi reading discussions, fungi film...
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