by Arlington Garden | Feb 12, 2025 | Arlington, Features
(AJ Jewell) We are deep in winter by most reckonings of the season, but it only recently started feeling that way. Winter in Southern California is usually a glorious three months. Winter is when it rains. Winter is when wildflowers grow! Unlike barren Chicago or...
by Arlington Garden | Feb 9, 2025 | Features, Interviews
This interview with Lynn Fang, MS has been edited for length and clarity. (AJPJ) Lynn Fang is a soil scientist with over 10 years of experience in ecological landscape design, soil science, community composting, and regenerative farming. She centers on soil health as...
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 | Nov 18, 2024 | Announcements, Arlington
Dear Arlington Garden Community, As some of you might know, Michelle Matthews has stepped down as our Executive Director. We encourage you to take a moment to read her announcement below. Michelle became Executive Director in June of 2017. Since then, the garden and...
by Arlington Garden | Jun 30, 2024 | Arlington, Friends of Arlington, Interviews
AG: What are your responsibilities at Arlington? AJ: I am the part time Communications Manager and Volunteer Program Manager. I am also an occasional event producer, very infrequent emergency gardener, regrettable emailer, etc. etc. etc. I write and edit our...
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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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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