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 | 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...
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