YOUR PLACE A BLOOMIN' GOOD TIME ROSE FESTIVAL MEANS FLOWERS - AND A LOT MORE.The Blooming of the Roses Festival will burst into color today, with flowers and fun in the Exposition Park/Figueroa corridor area of Los Angeles. The Exposition Park Rose Garden had its beginnings in 1972 as Agricultural Park and was named a Los Angeles County Point of Historical Interest in 1987. It has 10,000 bushes with more than 100 different varieties of roses. There will be free family activities in the garden from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today, including arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. , rose-pruning demonstrations and storytelling. On Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., the free family activities will be repeated, along with a collage-quilt workshop at the California African American Museum The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, USA. History The museum opened in 1981, in temporary quarters at the California Museum of Science and Industry (now the California Science Center). and ``Fun With Flowers'' at the California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State . The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association founded in 1910. will offer live animal presentations, bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. crafts and more from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Sunday at the Discovery Center, free with admission. Admission is $8 general, $5.50 seniors and students, $2 children ages 5-12, free for children under 5. Exposition Park is in downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or . Admission to the garden is free. Call (213) 746-9577 or visit www.figueroacorridor.org. TROWEL TIME: Learn to plant like a pro at a trio of free classes at Soka University of America SUA's educational philosophy was established by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, the first president of Soka Gakkai, who had worked as the principal of an elementary school in Japan. Makiguchi published the Value Creating Educational System based on his belief that "the purpose of education is to . ``Growing Natives in Your Garden'' will be held at 11 a.m. today, with tips on choosing native plants for ground cover, color and effect. ``Hands-On Plant Propagation'' is a dirty-hands lesson in preparing flats and propagating plants from seeds and cuttings, scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. ``Landscaping With Native Plants'' is an informal walk through the John and Juliana Gensley demonstration garden with landscape architect Thomas Kaye. The class will be held at 4 p.m. May 11. An additional nature walk is scheduled for 10 a.m. May 14 and will be led by horticulturist Tom Hayduk. For reservations, call (818) 878-3763. The university is located at 26800 W. Mulholland Highway, Calabasas. - B.D. BEHIND THE SCENES: Fans of PBS' popular home-improvement series ``This Old House'' will have an opportunity tonight (5:30 p.m. on KCET KCET Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo (Japan) KCET Kamaraj College of Engineering and Technology ) to see what really goes on during the filming of the weekly program. The 40-minute special ``Behind the Scenes at This Old House'' captures the everyday life on the set, the camaraderie of the folks on the production team and the problems they're faced with in the real-life renovation of the Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., project. - B.D. GROUNDS FOR THE GROUND: Today is Earth Day, and you can do your part by using coffee grounds to enrich your garden soil for acid- as hydrangeas and roses. In case you're a tea drinker, all Starbucks stores will offer complimentary spent coffee grounds today. Starbucks also will serve fresh coffee to volunteers at the L.A. County Earth Day clean-up and restoration project beginning at 9 a.m. at Los Angeles State Park at Taylor Yard (Fletcher Drive and the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. ). For more information, call (818) 980-9660. - B.D. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) no caption (roses) Michael Owen Baker/Staff Photographer (2) no caption (plant) |
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