by Arlington Garden | Dec 16, 2024 | Announcements, Arlington, Features, Wildlife
image courtesy of Scott Oshima On a recent Fall day, I walked in Arlington Garden’s afternoon sunlight. The light flowed from behind oaks and buckwheats. Lizards followed it along paths. A hawk glided silently through a sunbeam. A chatty family walked by the wish...
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 | Jan 9, 2024 | Arlington, Features, Guest Letters, Wildlife
Pictured: Allen’s hummingbird. Credit: Charles Hood. (Charles Hood) This special place is an urban oasis, as we all know subjectively, but that can be shown with quantitative data too, if, for example, we look at the resident and migrant hummingbirds. Six...
by Arlington Garden | Dec 1, 2023 | Climate Change Gardening, Features, Interviews, Resilience Gardening, Wildlife
Life on Earth is faced with incredible ecological challenges. In response, we can devote a portion of our personal landscapes to the natural world — a horticultural sacred share: a portion set aside in our yards or balconies for life on Earth.* In our...
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 | 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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