Gardens

Most Beautiful Public Gardens in Los Angeles

michael jhon 3 months ago

In addition to beautiful park spaces, Los Angeles is home to some amazing gardens. You can stroll traditional botanic gardens, California native plant gardens, and tranquil Japanese Gardens. Some gardens are in historic settings and one even is co-located with the popular Los Angeles Zoo.

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Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens

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The Botanical Gardens at the Huntington Library feature 120 landscaped acres with thirteen themed gardens and a conservatory on the former San Marino Ranch just outside Pasadena. The gardens include rare and exotic plants from around the world as well as California natives.

You can easily spend all day in the gardens, but the extensive art collection and illustrated manuscripts, including a Gutenberg Bible, at the Huntington Library are also worth seeing. Garden walking tours are available.

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Descanso Gardens

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Descanso Gardens contains 150 acres of gardens, woodland, and

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Abandoned California Theme Parks: A Tale Of 2 Busch Gardens In Los Angeles + 5 More Abandoned Theme Parks in California

michael jhon 4 months ago

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Many people who love California theme parks have no idea that Busch Gardens once existed in Los Angeles.

Busch Gardens Pasadena

Yet, the Los Angeles area once boasted not just 1, but 2 Busch Gardens theme parks that were operated by the legendary Anheuser-Busch beer company.

Today, Busch Gardens theme parks are major draws in Florida and Virginia — but they’re no longer found in the West. 

The older of the 2 operating Busch Gardens theme parks opened in Tampa in 1959.

But the very first Busch Gardens was located in Pasadena.

Busch Gardens Pasadena was an exquisite botanical feast for the eyes, welcoming millions of guests during the first decades of the 20th century.

Amazing, right?

I’m not only a Busch Gardens

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Forest Grove Community Gardens | Forest Grove Community Gardens

michael jhon 5 months ago

Welcome!

You found your way to the Forest Grove Community Gardens. The gardens provide an open, fertile space where people can rent 250 sq. ft. plots at its Community Garden location to grow food, enjoy the outdoors, and commune with friends and neighbors to encourage a cooperative community spirit while lowering their grocery bills!

The 2020 season of the Community Garden will be underway soon!

As we get ready for the 2020 season I just wanted to remind everyone not to park near the substation gate or in front of the main garden gate. The vehicles going into the substation are often large and need lots of clearance. We sometimes have dump trucks or other large vehicles going in the main garden gate, so we need to keep that clear also.

We are instituting a new process for handling green waste. All green waste (weeds, spent plants, etc.) generated by

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Veggie Gardens For Kids – Making A Children’s Vegetable Garden

michael jhon 5 months ago

Children love nearly anything pertaining to the great outdoors. They love digging in the dirt, creating yummy treats, and playing in trees. Children are curious by nature, and there is no greater joy than that from a child who has cultivated plants from his or her own vegetable garden. Making a children’s vegetable garden is easy. Keep reading to learn how to make a vegetable garden for kids.

Children and Vegetable Gardens

Kids enjoy planting seeds, watching them sprout, and eventually harvesting what they have grown. Allowing children to become involved in the planning, caring, and harvesting of a garden not only gives parents a unique opportunity to spend time with their children, but it helps the kids develop an understanding of that which they are curious about – nature. Children also develop a sense of responsibility and pride in themselves, which can ultimately improve self-esteem.

One of the best

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Video: Ex Kamelot Singer Roy Khan Covers Secret Garden’s ‘You Raise Me Up’

michael jhon 5 months ago

Video of former KAMELOT and current CONCEPTION singer Roy Khan performing a cover version of “You Raise Me Up”, a song originally composed by the Norwegian-Irish duo SECRET GARDEN, can be seen below.

After his departure from KAMELOT eight years ago, Khan (full name: Roy Sætre Khantatat), who is a devout Christian, joined a church in the coastal town of Moss, Norway. As an employee of Moss Frikirke, Khan worked with the youth, mainly with the choir and the skaters of the village. Roy stopped working at the church in September 2016.

KAMELOT officially announced Tommy Karevik as its new lead singer in June 2012. The Florida-based band has recorded three albums so far with the Swedish vocalist: 2012’s “Silverthorn”, 2015’s “Haven” and 2018’s “The Shadow Theory”.

CONCEPTION‘s new album, “State Of Deception”, was released on April 3. The band’s first full-length offering

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Garden Making | Inspiring ideas and information for great home gardens

michael jhon 5 months ago

Wide ribbons of rosy-coloured hellebores are weaving through our shady border as the crocus and snowdrops recede. Now that most of last year’s spent leaves have been removed, their nodding flowers on strong stems can be better appreciated. I visit them daily.

I was late to the hellebore bandwagon for two reasons. First, they’re rather pricey perennials. Young plants need to bulk up before they start to bloom, adding to the cost of production.

Secondly, I assumed they required coddling, not my strong suit in the garden. This proved false as I began to add a few at a time in our Zone 6 garden where snow cover is iffy, greedy mature tree roots suck up moisture and nutrients, and the soil is clay. (In other words, the nemesis of many plants: dry shade.)

Those few plants, mainly cultivars of Helleborus orientalis, added more than a dozen years ago

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Gardens | The Huntington

michael jhon 5 months ago

Encompassing about 120 acres, the botanical gardens feature 16 stunning themed gardens. In 1903 Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) purchased the San Marino Ranch, a working ranch about 12 miles from downtown Los Angeles with citrus groves, nut and fruit orchards, alfalfa crops, a small herd of cows, and poultry. His superintendent, William Hertrich (1878–1966), was instrumental in developing the various plant collections that comprise the foundation of The Huntington’s botanical gardens. The property—originally nearly 600 acres—today covers 207 acres, 120 of which are open to visitors and include some 15,000 different varieties of plants.

‘Huntington’s 100th’ Rose
A special variety of rose, ‘Huntington’s 100th’, provides a quintessential touch to The Huntington’s Centennial. The pastel yellow and orchid pink floribunda was hybridized by Tom Carruth, The Huntington’s E. L. and Ruth B. Shannon Curator of the Rose Collections, and is on display in the historic Rose Garden, as well as in

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10 of The World’s Most Beautiful Gardens

michael jhon 6 months ago

You definitely feel refreshed when ever you heard the name “Garden”. No doubt Garden is a place where you can find peace of mind, fragrance of flowers, Birds chirping, fresh breeze, soothing environment which takes your soul to some other level. A morning walk in a garden is really blessing for you. Meet 10 of the world’d most beautiful gardens. These places, created by humans to feel the blessings of nature. These are some of the well designed, built and most beautiful gardens from around the world.

10. Mirabell Gardens, Salzburg, Austria

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Another classical European garden in the vein of Versailles and the Tuilleries. Mirabell Palace with its beautiful gardens is a listed cultural heritage monument and part of the Historic Centre of the City of Salzburg UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Palace was built by Prince-Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau in 1606. This beautiful garden redesigned in 1690, are

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Enid A. Haupt Garden – Smithsonian Gardens

michael jhon 6 months ago

Covering over four acres, the Enid A. Haupt Garden is situated between the Smithsonian Castle and Independence Avenue and has provided a welcomed respite for Smithsonian visitors since it opened in 1987 as part of the redesigned Castle quadrangle. Composed of the Parterre, the Moongate Garden, and the Fountain Garden, the Haupt Garden’s design brings together the cultures and architecture of the surrounding museums and buildings.

While wandering its brick paths, admiring the parterre and hanging baskets, or enjoying the sound of splashing fountains, few visitors to the Haupt Garden realize that they are standing on the roofs of the National Museum of African Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the S. Dillon Ripley Center (International Gallery).

The Parterre

The Parterre, the centerpiece of the Haupt Garden, is a carefully manicured garden with a changing palette of colors, shapes, and textures. Because formal parterres are typically associated with the

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Gardens Alive – Organic Gardening, Lawn Care, and Natural Pest Solutions

michael jhon 6 months ago

“I’ve come to rely on Garden’s Alive to provide a safe alternative to chemical products. Their products are effective and allow me to grow my own vegetables that I know are healthy.”

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“I’m an organic gardener, with free roaming chickens, rabbit, dog, tortoises and kids! I have always had success with every product from Gardens Alive! I’m fact, my neighbor has called my yard ” magical”.”

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“I am a longtime customer. I join the Garden Club every year and love the discounts that come from smart ordering. Everyone admires my garden and I think these products are a big part of my success.”

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“I wouldn’t use anything else other than Tomatoes alive to fertilize my tomatoes in my garden. There is a noticeable improvement in growth and healthiness of the plants when I use Tomatoes

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