| World Landscape Architecture Month
Other activities in World Landscape Architecture Month include a meeting on education in Nairobi and conferences in Italy and New Zealand.
``Our planet now, as never before, faces global environmental issues. We have moved beyond doubt and denial to recognise the inconvenient truth of climate change. ``It is happening around us and is affecting weather patterns, crop production, island nations, cities and species survival. ``Some of the world’s cataclysmic disasters are associated with climate change such as floods and massive landslides. Our Landscape Architecture Month will help increase global understanding and support.’’ ``As our world’s population continues to expand the stress placed on scarce resources, particularly clean water, will become even more critical.
Enjoy 13 of the Best Private Gardens in Los Angeles County
A regional guide, The West Edition, costs $6.95 including shipping. Call the Garden Conservancy toll-free at 1-888-842-2442 to order with a Visa or MasterCard, or send a check or money order to: the Garden Conservancy, P.O. Box 219, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Discount admission tickets are available as well through advanced mail order. The 2007 Open Days Program is generously sponsored by W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Americas most trusted name in gardening for 125 years, providing seeds, plants, gardening supplies and accessories for the home gardener. The Open Days Program is also pleased to have Fine Gardening Magazine as its National Media Sponsor. Fine Gardening is published bimonthly by The Taunton Press, a trusted source of information and inspiration on house and home. The Garden Conservancys Open Days Program has been opening the gates to Americas best private gardens since 1995.
Homes in Brief: Composting workshop offered
Master composters from the Solana Center for Environmental Innovation teach free workshops at these locations. Register at www.solanacenter.org or call (760) 436-7986, Ext. 216.10-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center, 1580 Cannon Road, Carlsbad 1-2:30 p.m. Thursday: Dove library, 1775 Dove Lane, Carlsbad .
Not Quite Gone With the Wind
We who garden by the sea are used to wrack and ruin, severed limbs, scorching sunburn, alternating flood and drought, and (here in the Northeast) extremes of temperature. The countless times we have rushed outside to drag pots to shelter, secure loose tie-up and fencing, and turn over the outdoor furniture because of a sudden rise in the wind should be enough to deter us from this easily frustrating pursuit, but it has not. Nor have the hours spent cleaning up broken pottery, picking up branches, or searching for the wind chime that has sailed halfway across the yard killed our enthusiasm. Gardeners everywhere are well versed in the cycles of nature and accordingly accept the rhythms of birth, flowering, maturity, and death. Those of us who choose to garden by the sea have the added thrill of the sudden, unexpected element playing its own part in our endeavors.
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