Planning a garden,
large or small, from scratch or around existing plants? Discover the
joys and benefits of gardening with California native plants: water
conservation and low maintenance, plus year-round color, fragrance,
butterflies and birdsong. An assortment of native plants will be
displayed. Useful handouts, a resource list and California poppy seeds
will be provided.
Lili Singer wears many
garden hats. She is a horticulturist, educator, garden consultant and
garden writer. She heads the Thursday Garden Talks at the LA
County Arboretum & Botanic Garden in Arcadia and recently became Special
Projects Coordinator for the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers
and Native Plants in Sun Valley, CA.
In past lives, Lili
worked in nurseries, including her parents’ business, which specialized
in rare succulents. She published and edited two award-winning
periodicals, The Southern California Gardener and The
Gardener’s Companion. And for more than a decade, she hosted “The
Garden Show,” a live call-in radio program on KCRW-fm.
Lili was named 1997
Horticulturist of the Year by the Southern California Horticultural
Society. She also received the 1994 Mildred E. Mathias Life Achievement
Award from the Friends of the Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly
Hills.
