Garden Classes in Los Angeles, CA

Learn about easy-to grow Superfoods for Southern California, their health benefits, and how to grow and cook them. Also discussed will be easy adaptogenic herbs and a walk around the garden to see many of these plants. You are what you eat!

Join Kyra Saegusa in exploring the rewards of the ecosystem-based edible landscape in this introductory workshop. This class will lay the foundation for introducing this wholistic practice into your own garden and help in the creation of your own sustainable verdant, food-producing space that is at the same time, livable and beautiful.

Looking to transform your traditional, high-water-use yard into a peaceful habitat garden abounding with biodiversity? Barbara Eisenstein, author of Wild Suburbia: Learning to Garden with Native Plants, will discuss the joys and challenges of tending a native garden and sign copies of her books. Barbara Eisenstein is a research associate and former...

Learn about water conservation and sustainable gardening, with hands-on experience! The Crescent Farm, located in the heart of the Arboretum just west of Baldwin Lake, is a reclaimed landscape where we explore new and ancient horticulture techniques for water conservation and food production. This is an educational training series.

This two-course sequence provides students with technical instruction and practical experience in workplace safety, use and care of basic landscaping tools, plant identification, different soil types, planting and maintaining a garden, and basic landscaping design. It also covers landscape irrigation, water management, weed abatement, pruning, and...

Stay on top of the world of botany & horticulture when Arboretum botanist Frank McDonough covers various landscaping and gardening topics plus the latest news in gardening and plant science. Frank will also reveal some of the more important or unusual or entertaining questions that he and the volunteers have received from the public during the...

Arboretum Botanist, Frank McDonough, will instruct this class that looks at more than a dozen major plant families represented by specimens here at the Arboretum. You will learn about plant classification, how to identify plants genus, family and order using both printed and digital plant keys. You will also learn how to identify and determine the...

A unique and exclusive opportunity to tour this estate that is rich with historical significance, as it has welcomed Queen Elizabeth II, U.S. presidents and Hollywood icons. Opened to visitors in 2012, this Rancho Mirage estate was the private home of Walter Annenberg, a diplomat and a giant in American media. It was the setting of Hollywood parties,...

For over 40 years, The Living Desert has been engaged in the important work of preserving, conserving and interpreting the desert and all its varied plant and animal life.   It is one of the most unique institutions in the U.S. and it's located right here in Palm Desert! This wonderful oasis is a combination of zoo, endangered species conservation...

Includes American Red Cross Certification.

Led by neurologist and Arboretum volunteer, Dr. Robert Tager, discover what your brain needs to function at its peak and how the Arboretum can help. After a brief introduction to memory, learning and the brain, tour through the Arboretum to discover ways of preserving and enhancing brain function.

Join Jill Morganelli, the Arboretum’s Horticultural Supervisor, on tours through gardens that demonstrate responsible stewardship for our Southern California landscapes while providing beauty and seasonal interest. Each session will highlight water-maximizing garden construction, installation and site-specific recommendations for irrigation systems,...

The walks are open to all ages (children must be accompanied by an adult) and all levels of birding knowledge. Bring your binoculars, comfortable walking shoes, and join our experienced birder and naturalist for a fun morning of finding and watching our fine-feathered friends.

Experience the wonders of the Arboretum as you spend an enjoyable morning walking with one of our knowledgeable volunteer docents. These tours are an ideal way to learn more about the Arboretum and can be geared to visitors’ interests. Tours are for persons of reasonably good health and capable of a substantial amount of walking.

The Arboretum Library’s book group explores the portrayal of western North American landscape in fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry. The group generally meets the last Wednesday of the month in the Arboretum Library or out on the Arboretum grounds, weather and sunlight permitting. Some dates are not the last Wednesday. Check the dates below....