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...
by Arlington Garden | Sep 14, 2021 | Conservation, Features
Paloma Avila is Program and Development Manager at Arlington Garden Pasadena and co-host of Beyond Freeways. According to the University of California Cooperative Extension, landscape irrigation accounts for about 50% of annual residential water consumption...
by Arlington Garden | Aug 27, 2021 | Conservation, Features, Guest Letters
by William Hallstrom (Arlington Garden volunteer) For the past few months, most of the volunteer crew at Arlington Garden have spent at least some of their time wrapping the trunks of each of the garden’s trees with the kind of soft tape measure you might use for...
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