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We are beyond thrilled — and honestly still pinching ourselves — to share that the Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour has been featured in the Los Angeles Times! In a beautiful piece celebrating the best of Southern California’s spring garden tours, our…
Lucky LadybugsThe gardeners best friend! A popular symbol of springtime is the speckled, miniature dome of a ladybug as it strolls along a plant stem looking for its favorite meal of a plump, juicy, lime green aphid. Of all the…
You may have noticed that we've introduced a new category over the past couple of years called "Summer Dry." But what exactly does it mean, and how does it differ from other garden styles? Let's dive into the fascinating world…
The Heard's Memorial Garden Tour Guides will be available soon at our supporting garden centers: Brita's Old Town Gardens in Seal Beach - H & H Nursery in Lakewood - Ricardo's Nursery in Long Beach - Green Thumb Nursery in…
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Rancho Los Alamitos Rancho Los Alamitos (the "Ranch of the Little Cottonwoods") Historic Ranch and Gardens is one of Southern California's longest-inhabited hilltops. The Rancho is located on Tongva-Gabrielino's ancestral land and is a traditional gathering place of the Tonga…
What’s the First Thing You Think of When Someone Mentions Valentine’s Day? Why ROSES of course! Your MLH board members were invited to join the Orange County Rose Society (OCRS) this past Saturday at the Richard Nixon Library and Museum…
Christmas at my maternal grandparent’s home always included gingerbread cookies, as my papa was Swedish, and my grammy was German. Papa’s versions were always shaped as a traditional round cookie or a dala horse, and grammy’s were the traditional boys…
They’re Creepy and They’re Kooky, Mysterious and Spooky, They’re All Together Ooky, The Plants of Halloween! (Snap-snap) Macro of two insectivorous venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula) one tightly closed and one open Let’s talk about oddly unusual plants: plants that…
The Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour Board meets nine months out of the year, planning and coordinating each year's garden tour. Since the pandemic, we've been meeting on Zoom instead of meeting in person in the Huntington Beach area.…
It's that time of year when you can barely make it down the aisle of your grocery store without encountering Pumpkin Spice something... hot cocoa mix, cereal, cookies, popcorn, breakfast pastries, tea, coffee, coffee creamer, pretzels, ice cream, even air…
There's always a lovely little stream running at Oak Canyon Nature Center “Nuclear summer,” I called the hot, dry fall of Southern California. I claimed, we only have two seasons: 7 months of spring and five months of summer that get worse…
