YOUR PLACE DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY TREES GET THEIR DAY IN THE SUN ON EARTH DAY, ARBOR DAY.With Earth Day and National Arbor Day this week, not to mention sunny skies and blooming spring flowers spring flowers a token of Christ’s resurrection. [Christian Tradition: Jobes, 487] See : Easter , it's the perfect time to celebrate nature. For Earth Day on Sunday, American Forests American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens , the country's oldest nonprofit conservation organization, has launched a campaign to plant 1 million trees. For information on how to plant a tree in your yard, see www.americanforests.org but if you'd like to help the California State Parks This is a list of state parks and reserves in the California state park system. Jump to: External links A : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Volunteers are needed from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Arthur B. Ripley State Park, 20 miles west of Lancaster; Malibu Lagoon State Beach and Point Dume Point Dume is a point on the coast of Malibu, California. Point Dume forms the northern end of the Santa Monica Bay, and Point Dume Headlands Park affords a vista of stretching to the Palos Verdes Peninsula and Santa Catalina Island. State Beach in Malibu; Saddleback Butte State Park Saddleback Butte State Park is a state park located in southern California's Antelope Valley. The prominent feature of this park is Saddleback Butte, a butte that measures 3,651 feet (1,113 m) high. The park covers about 2,955 acres (11. , 20 miles east of Lancaster; and Topanga State Park Topanga State Park is a California state park located in Los Angeles County. It is located adjacent to the unincorporated community of Topanga, California, within the city of Los Angeles, California. Covering 11,000 acres (45 km²) it is the largest state park within city limits. in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). . All require work clothes, gloves, sunscreen sunscreen /sun·screen/ (-skren) a substance applied to the skin to protect it from the effects of the sun's rays. sun·screen n. , water and a gardening spade. For more information, call (310) 457-8140 for beach areas and (661) 942-0662 for desert areas. Arbor Day history buffs will note that April 22 is the original Arbor Day date, created by a Nebraska newspaper publisher in 1872. National Arbor Day is on the last Friday in April, which falls on April 27 this year. California's Arbor Day was celebrated March 7 in honor of naturalist and city namesake Luther Burbank. The states have argued for years over an official day, but nobody ever got around to naming a national tree. So, somebody suggested an election, and this time your vote really counts. To vote, click onto the National Arbor Day Foundation's Web site www.arborday.org and check out the well-known nominees, including California's state tree, the mighty redwood, and also the palm, which sways throughout the Valley. Voting deadline is Thursday. But there's also a write-in option, where Angelenos might consider the awesome Joshua tree Joshua tree: see yucca. of local deserts or even the ficus, the city's most popular indoor tree. There's a deep-rooted campaign for the shallow-rooted Giant Sequoia. The Vote Giant Sequoia group claims it as the largest living tree in the world, and believe it to be 2,100 years old. - Barbara De Witt STALKING IRIS: The San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Iris Society will hold its spring flower show at Westfield Shoppingtown Topanga in Canoga Park today and Sunday. It's free and open to the public during mall hours. GET YOUR PLANTS HERE: Thousands of plants - including roses, irises, lilacs, orchids, cactuses, ornamental trees, geraniums, herbs and wisteria wisteria (wĭstēr`ēə) or wistaria (–târ`–), any plant of the genus Wisteria, trees - will be available at the 21st annual spring plant sale Saturday and April 28 at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge. The plants have been grown by volunteers who propagate choice plants from Descanso Gardens' collections, and sales will benefit the public gardens. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and admission to the sale and parking are free; however if you want to tour the gardens you'll have to pay $5 for adults; $3 for senior citizens and students; $1 for children ages 5-12; free for children 4 and younger. For more information, call (818) 952-4401. - B.D. GARDENING ON THE CHEAP: At first glance, the title of Sharon Amos' new book is deceiving, but eye-catching. ``Plants for Free'' (Time-Life Books; $16.95) is not about where to get free plants, but rather as the smaller subtitle says ``how to create a great garden for next-to-nothing.'' The author admits that, to start a garden, there is cost involved. Her book, though, tells how to grow that garden for less by saving seeds and using cuttings to start new plants. The book also includes an encyclopedia of plants with care instructions that include how to make more plants. - Daily News CAPTION(S): 3 photos Photo: (1 -- color) The Giant Sequioa- as exemplified by the Gen. Sherman Tree in Sequioa National Forest- is believed to be 2,100 years old and is considered by many a worthy candidate for the distinction of national tree. (2 -- color) no caption (IRIS) (3 -- color) no caption (``Plants for free/ how to create a great garden for next-to- nothing'') |
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