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Inspiration in a Responsible Garden

Sunday September 26th at 10:15 am
Ayers Hall, L.A. County Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Embracing creative elements, plant collections, personality, and
climate into the landscape is a recipe for bringing fun back to
gardening and adding to our urban environment. It is time for us to
return to loving plants and part ways with building new patios.
Lets throw out the barbeques and replace them with planters. See
the unusual, the oddities and the plants of obsession inspiring one
to love the greenery with which we surround ourselves.

Speaker

Richie Steffen

Richie is the curator for the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden near
Seattle, where he manages the rare plant collections and heads acquisition of
new plants. By using both natives and exotics, and blending elements of
American, Japanese and British gardening influences, the garden follows in
the tradition of Elisabeth Carey Miller in establishing a premier garden
representing a classic Northwest style of garden design. His travels in
Britain, Turkey, Germany, Costa Rica, New Zealand, and Chile give him a
great appreciation for the flora of the world and the richness of horticulture
in the West. He currently is on the board of the Hardy Fern Foundation and
the Northwest Horticultural Society, and is a regular contributor to Pacific
Horticulture magazine, where he shares his enthusiasm for plants and
horticulture with the magazine's readers.

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