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MARKETS

STORYTIME

MUSEUMS

New grocery stores open in area neighborhoods.

Literature specialist Virginia Walter was recently at Memorial.

Korean comics, past and future, are featured in a new exhibit.

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Local filmmaker adds comedy to right-wing politics

By Billy Taylor As the presidential election season approaches and campaign rhetoric intensifies, a local filmmaker is busy working on a political comedy that will leave audiences wondering if it’s art imitating life, or vice versa?

“Swing State” is written and directed by Larchmont Village resident Jonathan Sheldon.

The story follows a down-onhis-luck radio host whose fortunes improve after he takes over a conservative talk show and adopts a fictional Republican persona.

Sheldon says he had the idea nearly a decade ago, while watching a music disk jockey impersonate a right-wing talk show host.

“My thought was wouldn’t it be interesting to watch a character change from being liberal-minded to a right-wing

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pundit,” says Sheldon.

It was an idea he played with until last year, when the country’s political environment provided the perfect backdrop for just such a plot.

“There are lines that I wrote in the script that have since been used, practically verbatim, by Trump,” laughs Sheldon. “There’s also a scene where a Republican plays music by a liberal musician, and that too has already played out on the campaign trail.”

Filming in neighborhood Sheldon says he recently wrapped an 18-day film shoot with locations in Hancock Park and Windsor Square.

In the movie, actor Billy Zane plays a corrupt state of Washington Governor. Sheldon needed to find a filming location with the right look, inside and out.

“We scouted a lot of places, but in the end went with a house on Norton Ave. in Windsor Square,” says Sheldon, adding, “it’s a very believ-

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Asked for details on the house, Diana Knox, an agent at Partners Trust, explains that famed architect, Paul Revere Williams, originally designed the residence in the 1920s.

“Williams was an amazing architect responsible for many iconic Los Angeles buildings,” according to Knox, that include collaborating on the spider-like LAX Theme Building and both the Beverly Hills Hotel and Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills.

Even with such a pedigree, Knox says she didn’t think the house would be grand enough for the movie. “But Jonathan loved it. And in the end, it worked out perfectly.”

Sheldon is keeping busy with post-production final touches on “Swing State,” but he has his eyes set on screenings at both the Los Angeles and Tribeca Film festivals.

“We should know in about a month,” he says, “watch this space.”

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Lassens brings health food to Miracle Mile Lassens Natural Foods and Vitamins is now open at the corner of Wilshire Blvd. at 710 S. La Brea Ave. The 12,000 square foot grocery store is on the ground floor of Wilshire-La Brea, the mixed-use apartment build-

ing in the eastern part of the Miracle Mile. Parking inside the Wilshire-La Brea is free for shoppers with validation.

The family-owned market specializes in fresh, organic groceries, meat and produce, as well as vitamins and sup-

plements.

The location is the 11th for the health food grocer, which first opened in Camarillo in 1971. It is the company’s third location in Los Angeles.

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A FULL-SERVICE market, Sprouts includes grass-fed beef, fresh produce and a coffee bar.

Sprouts opened newest Market on N. La Brea Sprouts Farmers Market opened its newest store for the “everyday shopper” last month at 915 N. La Brea Ave. “It’s finally here,” said a shopper at the Feb. 9 grand opening Feb. 9 of the 17th store in the Los Angeles area.

Muffins and coffee and discounts were offered to opening day visitors of the full-service, 34,000 square-foot site.

Fresh produce, grass-fed beef, seafood and ready-to-eat meals are among offerings.

A coffee bar and bakery plus wine and beer and bulky items are also in the full-service store.

Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company has partnered with the store to offer non-toxic home, baby and cosmetic products.

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Thrive Décor and Diane Merrick will close their stores in June

By Sondi Toll Sepenuk Don’t shed your tears just yet. The bad news: two of Los Angeles’ most notable stores will be closing June 1. The good news: everything is on sale at 40 percent off the original price.

Thrive Décor (7427 Beverly Blvd.), the beloved neighborhood antique store owned by Windsor Square resident Randy Esada, and Dianne Merrick (7407 Beverly Blvd.), owned by none other than 80-yearold Diane Merrick herself, have jointly decided to close their showrooms.

“Beverly Blvd. has been a huge disappointment,” says Esada of Thrive’s current location at the corner of Beverly Blvd. and N. Vista St. “There’s no foot traffic, and there’s not enough crosswalks.”

Esada’s store carries everything from 18th century furniture to Art Deco pieces to Modern Art. It’s an antique collector’s paradise, and its abundance of hard-to-find tables, chairs, glassware, lamps, paintings and even an Italian 18th century lady dress form mannequin make it hard to walk in and walk out within the same hour.

Merrick’s store, on the other hand, is known as a “clothing salon” that also sells antique furniture, jewelry, fine china, cashmere and whatever else Merrick finds interesting.

Merrick started her clothing boutique on Melrose Avenue in 1971. Her store was famous for its warm, friendly, shabby chic atmosphere and for carrying California lifestyle brands such as Juicy Couture, C&C California and J Brand before they exploded into their own namesake stores.

But Diane didn’t start with clothing. It was used furniture that caught her fancy first.

“Before they built the Design Center, there were little railroad shacks, and they would rent them out monthly,” remembers Merrick. “I was selling used furniture for six months, and then I teamed

Visit six gardens on Society tour

“Living Alfresco” is the theme of the eighth annual Windsor Square-Hancock Park Historical Society garden tour.

This year’s tour takes place on Irving Blvd. in Windsor Square on Sun., May 1 from 2 to 6 p.m.

The tour will feature the gardens of the Getty House, official residence of the Mayor, and five other outdoor living spaces.

Suz Landay, chairman, said wine and food pairings will be featured at each venue.

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up with a lady who did antique shows and we leased a place on Melrose. We shared the space and I paid $60 a month!”

Merrick eventually took over the showroom, added clothing and vintage jewelry and stayed at her famous Melrose location until Kitson took over the space. Merrick moved to Beverly Blvd. in 2006.

Esada, an interior designer, opened his original showroom in Larchmont Village in 1998.

He then opened Antiquarian Home on Melrose Avenue before finally settling on Beverly Blvd. five years ago. That’s when he met Diane.

“I saw him building out his store, this big, fabulous guy with bright white teeth, and I loved him the minute I met him,” gushes Merrick of her friend Esada.

The two friends have become so close that they both decided to close their stores togeth-

RANDY Esada and Diane Merrick enjoy a moment of relaxation before their stores close June 1.

er and go out with a bang.

Esada currently does about two thirds of his business online, and he plans to continue with the online sales as he looks into his next venture.

“The face of retail is chang-

ing,” says Esada. “More people are going online, so what’s the point of having a big, glamorous showroom that you’re paying a fortune for… unless it’s your own?”

As for Merrick, this is not

the end of her retail career, either.

“For my next venture, I expect to have similar things, but only things that I love,” she says with a relaxed smile.

“I want to have more freedom to travel… to go to estate sales and to travel to Paris and to find the items I love.”

In the meantime, as Esada and Merrick plot their next moves, both Thrive Décor and the Diane Merrick store will be offering 40 percent off in March, then 50 percent off in April and May before they shutter their doors permanently on June 1.

“There’s never been a better time to buy antiques than right now,” Esada says emphatically of his antiques that are already priced at market wholesale.

“If you walk out of the store without an antique, you didn’t come in to buy one!”

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Mansionization encroaches on neighborhood's historic fabric This is a memo of gratitude to the city of Los Angeles. In late March 2015, an Interim Control Ordinance (ICO) went into effect in 15 residential neighborhoods. Five of them are in Council District 4 and one, Larchmont Heights, is an area of small bungalows north of Beverly. I live in Larchmont Heights.

This ICO is a set of rules, passed by the City Council, that impose temporary restrictions on developers and others who want to either tear down existing houses or pile on square footHome age to existing Ground houses, yieldby ing results that are out of scale Paula Panich with lot sizes and surrounding neighborhoods.

Adoption of the ICO is a reaction to the legitimate fear of what’s known throughout the city as “mansionization,” a word as difficult to say as its meaning is to endure for most who live in neighborhoods unprotected by other means, such as an Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ).

But most people in the city know what this unwieldy word

means: huge houses on small lots.

The rules vary by neighborhood. For Larchmont Heights and a few others, the ICO prohibits any building permits for plans that exceed 120 percent of the prior or existing structure. (Exceptions, especially for existing homeowners, are spelled out.)

This is where my gratitude comes in. Last month, I wrote about the death of our muchmissed neighbor. It took awhile to settle her estate, but by the time developers (“flippers,” in common parlance) bought her house, the ICO was in effect.

The house next door was 1,250 square feet; its remodel is about 1,500.

Until we learned about the ICO, the sale next door put us into a tailspin. Why? The most obvious answer is privacy. My back garden is a private space, a refuge; so are the two small buildings in which I work. The etching press is in the garage; the library and desk are in a 100-square-foot cottage. Both are contemporaneous with the

RESIDENTS on the 500 block of N. Arden are

1921 house. My lot and hers are 5,000 square feet. It’s already tight back here.

But these are personal reasons to fear a looming second story next door; other reasons have to do with mostly hidden dimensions within the human experience. Most of us are rarely aware of them.

We don’t all relate to the same things, nor do we see the same things. Much of it is cultural, but our transactions with our environment are always deeply personal. I won’t see what you see; there seems to be persuasive evidence that what we do “see” around us depends on how we think about things. Life is lived, af-

ter all, from the inside out.

People who are attracted to the community fabric of our local historic neighborhoods— their scale, their pedestrian-friendly streets, and our shared village center with diagonal parking—are likely to have this environmental proportion embedded in their experience. It may relate to childhood, or to the loved landscape of an equally loved grandmother. It’s a human scale. It fits the human body, which throughout the world has for millennia been the measurement by which we have lived.

To paraphrase the landscape historian John Stilgoe,

a cityscape, a neighborhood boundary, is what city planners and geographers say it is—a discrete area. But it may be something else too, something that defies price per square foot and building surveys. It may be a prism through which we see our world.

The ICO, described by many as a “time-out” for inappropriate building, will expire in early 2017. City planners are at work revising the Baseline Mansionization Ordinance, citywide guidelines that may adequately protect neighborhoods. The amendments will go before the city Planning Commission on May 12.

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Wisteria dubbed 'one of seven wonders' View one of the largest plants in the world while enjoying live music and the offerings of some 100 crafters and food vendors Sun., March 13 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 2016's "Wistaria Festival" in Sierra Madre.

Judged by the Guinness Book of World Records to be

the largest blooming plant on the planet, and dubbed “One of the Seven Horticultural Wonders of the World,” the wisteria vine that covers the park in downtown Sierra Madre is estimated to weigh at least 250 tons and have more than a million blooms each year.

THE WISTERIA in Sierra Madre is more than 120 years old.

Public shows its support to curb mansionization

THREE MUSKETEERS deliver your packages to upper Larchmont: from left to right are Carl Mitchell, USPS; Rubin Misquez, UPS; and Ted Green, FedEx.

Amendments to a law intended to curb mansionization—the building of homes out of scale with their neighborhood—are scheduled to go before the city Planning Commission Thurs., May 12, two months later than earlier proposed.

The later date was set to accommodate public input and environmental analysis, city officials said. More than 650 letters and emails were received by a January deadline concerning the proposed drafts of the Baseline Mansionization Ordinance.

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LIBRARY CALENDAR

Music, movies, egg hunt and crafts herald advent of spring at libraries FAIRFAX LIBRARY 161 S. Gardner St. 323-936-6191 Children Snack attack: Thurs., March 10 at 4 p.m.

Reader's Theater: Kids grades 2 and up read scripts

Mon., March 21 through Wed., March 23 at 3:30 p.m.

Egg hunt and craft: Thurs., March 24 at 3:30 p.m.

Storytime: Wednesdays at 10 and 11 a.m.

Teens Teen Council: Tues., March

8 at 3:30 p.m.

DIY dreamcatchers: Tues., March 15 at 3:30 p.m.

Volunteer orientation: Tues., March 29, 4 to 5 p.m.

Adults First Thursday films: Thurs., March 3 at 2:30 p.m.

Author talk: Boze Hadleigh speaks Fri., March 4 at 3 p.m.

Quilters Guild: For all levels Sat., March 5 at 1:30 p.m.

Art of speaking: Saturdays March 5 and 19, 3 to 5 p.m.

Friends of the Library: Meets Tues., March 8, 11 a.m.

Support pals: Meets Saturdays, March 12 and 26 at 1:30 p.m.

M.S. support group: Meets Thurs., March 17 at 6 p.m.

Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators: Thurs., March 24 at 6:30 p.m.

Computer comfort class: Taught Mondays at 1:30 p.m.

Friends of the Library book sale: Wednesdays, 12 to 4 p.m.

FREMONT LIBRARY 6121 Melrose Ave. 323-962-3521 Children Interactive science show: Thurs., March 3 at 4 p.m.

Glow in the dark crafts: Thurs., March 10, 4 p.m.

Cello quartet: Performs Sat., March 12 at 2 p.m.

BARK: Read books to therapy dogs Sat., March 19, 2 p.m.

Storytime: Wednesdays, 10:30 and 11 a.m.

Teens Teen council: Tues., March 15 at 3:30 p.m.

Adults Friends of the Library book sale: Fri., March 4. 12 to 4 p.m.; Sat., March 5, 12 to 5 p.m.

Book club: Meets Tues., March 8, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

MEMORIAL LIBRARY 4625 W. Olympic Blvd.

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Family movie night: Mon., March 21 at 4 p.m.

Teens Recycled paper crafts: Thurs., March 24 at 4 p.m.

Adults First Friday book club: Meets Fri., March 4 at 1 p.m.

Fun & Games for adults: Wednesdays at 12:30 p.m.

Computer comfort class: Taught Mondays through Thursdays, 3 to 5 p.m.

Friends of the Library book sale: Tuesdays,12:30 to 5 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday @the Movies: Free film Tuesdays at 5 p.m.

Knitting circle: Saturdays at 10 a.m.

WILSHIRE LIBRARY 149 N. St. Andrews Place 323-957-4550 Children Baby storytime: For infants up to age 2, Mondays, 6 to 6:15 p.m.

Preschool storytime: For kids ages 3 to 5, Thursdays, 3 to 4 p.m.

Adults Medi-Cal and CalFresh: Tues., March 8, 1 to 5 p.m.

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MUSEUM ROW

Mapplethorpe coming to LACMA; Cruise-in; Women's Month fêted LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART—Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, and first day of spring is celebrated Sun., March 13 from 11:30 a.m. t 3PCFSU .BQQMFUIPSQF 5IF 1FSGFDU .FEJVN FYBNJOFT his photographic work from the 1970s to his death in 1989, opens Sun., March 20. Ends July 31. t 1IZTJDBM 4FY BOE UIF #PEZ JO UIF T PQFOT 4VO March 20. Ends July 31. t .PSSJT (SBWFT 5IF /BUVSF PG 5IJOHT FOET +VMZ t 5IF 4FEVDUJWF -JOF &SPUJcism in Early 20th-Century (FSNBOZ BOE "VTUSJB FOET July 10. t 3BJO 3PPN BMMPXT WJTJUPST UP FYQFSJFODF UIF BCJMJUZ UP DPOUSPM SBJO &OET "QSJM LACMA is free the second Tuesday of the month.

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Park Mile Specific Plan has protected area residents for 37 years

By John Welborne The revelation in last month’s article (“A neighbor’s correspondence seeks Park Mile change�) concerning Brookside resident Jan Wieringa’s letter to the city brings up the issue of whether the Park Mile Specific Plan should be changed, as

implied by her letter.

She wrote that she “would like to see many mitigations made to the development plans that CIM is proposing� and stated that she believes “this large new multi-family development will forever change the character of this

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It is worth reviewing not only how low is the allowable density under the adopted Park Mile Specific Plan, but also how the developer’s proposed height and number of units in the block across from Wieringa’s 8th St. home will be even lower

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Even more interesting is to reflect back to the 1970s ‌ and to what was being proposed at the time when the Wilshire Homeowners’ Alliance began a fight for—and won—the ultimate, extreme low density that now exists in the Park Mile.

8th & Hudson—330 units For much of the land adjacent to Brookside (not even called that back then), there was a specific development proposal reported on the front page of the August 1978 Larchmont Chronicle. For only the blocks between Tremaine Ave. and Rimpau Blvd., between 8th St. and Wilshire Blvd., architecture firm Leo A. Daly Associates was proposing a 330-unit “residential park.� Three schemes, which would have closed Keniston and Hudson avenues south of Wilshire for one block, incorporated a mix of high-rise towers up to 27 stories and low-profile town houses.

The land for this 330-unit condominium proposal, which the developers named “Cathedral Park,� was vacant. It had been vacant since before it was purchased in 1923 by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese as a site to replace downtown’s St. Vibiana’s Cathedral.

Building moratorium This Leo A. Daly plan was one of many developer proposals held up by a build-

ing moratorium initiated by Councilman John Ferraro in response to local constituents’ desire to have a Park Mile Specific Plan adopted first.

After adoption, Leo A. Daly’s proposed 330-unit project could not be built; the Archdiocese sold the land; seven RD3 (“Restricted Density�) townhomes and an office building (now the House of Lebanon) were constructed between Tremaine and Keniston; and Farmers Insurance built the two, three-story office buildings now on the remainder of the land along Wilshire between Keniston and Rimpau.

All this was done in conformance with the newly adopted Park Mile Specific Plan.

Restrictive Plan What is today allowable on the remaining vacant former Farmers property east of Rimpau, extending to Muirfield Road, also is subject to the density, height, setback, parking, and other restrictions of the Park Mile Specific Plan.

These restrictions clearly are far more limiting than what the developers sought in their late 1970s proposal for 330 units and 27 stories.

The adopted restrictions only allow three stories for new buildings, and the allowable density is very low. Not including the existing, historic, seven-story Farmers tower, and assuming that a new parking structure is built above (Please turn to page 11)

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Park Mile Specific Plan (Continued from page 10) ground to provide the required parking for offices in that tower, the zoning allows only 30 units, three-stories tall, along Wilshire Blvd., plus a five-unit three-story RD3 townhouse building and a ten-unit threestory RD3 townhouse building along 8th St., plus the parking structure up to three stories tall along Wilshire.

The accompanying drawing depicts that allowable height and density. The drawing shows a total of 45 new units allowable on the vacant parking lots.

If the parking for the office tower were built underground, then 14 additional threestory units could be built on Wilshire, totaling 59 new units on the vacant parking lots.

CIM’s proposal By contrast to the 45 (or 59) units allowed, the current CIM Group proposal is to have 34 units on those vacant lots.

As presented to the community and the city last fall, CIM Group proposes eleven condominium townhouses, twoand-a-half stories tall, on the Wilshire frontage in the western block that has the existing tower and three triplex buildings, three stories tall, on the Wilshire frontage in the eastern block (nine condominium units total).

In the remainder of that eastern block, the proposal is for eight freestanding, singlefamily condominium homes, two-and-a-half stories tall, and six two-story single-family homes along Eighth Street.

That equals 34 units on

the now-vacant lots, with the balance of the allowable units proposed to be in the historic tower.

Along 8th St., in the western block containing the existing tower, CIM Group proposes only a deck and swimming pool, in lieu of the allowable three-story townhouse building with five units.

The total number of Park Mile-allowable residential units on these two blocks is significantly lower than the density proposed by Leo A. Daly in the 1970s. That proposed density would have allowed approximately 198 units on the land where CIM Group proposes to follow the Park Mile’s allowable maximum unit count that is in the mid-80s, which includes the units to be in the existing historic tower.

Challenge to Park Mile Plan Regarding the Jan Wieringa correspondence referenced in last month’s Larchmont Chronicle, current Windsor Square Association president Larry Guzin wrote last month to Brookside president Owen Smith and other neighborhood leaders, stating that someone’s thinking that the Park Mile property across from her house “should have lower density than the other properties adjoining our single-family homes between Highland and Wilshire . . . [s]eems selfish.”

Guzin wrote further: “[T]hat selfish approach meddles with the Plan that has provided the highly-successful protections for all of our neighborhoods for nearly 35 years. I really urge

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you to try to educate your residents, some of whom may be relatively new to the area, that all of us … already have very advantageous adjacent zoning.

“Our task is to make sure that new developers, like CIM Group, faithfully comply with the adopted rules that all other developers have followed in previous decades. It seems very selfish for some nearby resident or residents to think that a developer should have to do something different just for the benefit of that resident or residents.”

Guzin’s letter concludes: (Please turn to page 15)

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Home & Garden

Cherry Blossoms celebrated at festival Take part in the Cherry Blossom Festival and other activities at Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Dr., La Cañada Flintridge.

Cherry Blossom Festival This year’s festival will feature Japanese cuisine, origami, music and more Sat., March 12 from 9 a.m. to 6

p.m. and Sun., March 13 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Below are some of the festival highlights scheduled for both days.

Discovery stations will be available to learn about flowering trees from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cherry trees will be on sale at the gift shop between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Visitors can learn about the art of paper folding at the origami station from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Patina will have tempura and sushi selections, as well as beverages and snacks, at the Camellia Lounge from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.: June Kuramoto will perform

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George Abe will play the Japanese flute from 3 to 5:30 p.m.

Family activities Admission to Descanso Gardens will be free to the public Tues., March 15.

See “The Autobiography of Big Bad Wolf” performed by the Ensemble Shakespeare

Theater Saturdays March 19 and 26, Sun., March 20 and Fri. March 25.

Take a walk with veteran bird watcher Karen Johnson Sun., March 27 from 8 to 9 p.m. Bring binoculars.

For more information, call 818-949-7980, or go to descansogardens.org.

Learn how architecture is art, get exercise practicing tai chi and hear about Chinese influences in English gardens this month at Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Rd., San Marino.

Learn about the American Arts and Crafts movement and how architecture is a fine art in a series of lectures given each Wednesday from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Practice tai chi to get exercise in the garden Saturdays from 8:45 to 10:15 a.m. Wear

comfortable clothing.

Explore the connections between impressionism and gardening, and then make a garden fresh meal at Taste of Art: The Artist’s Garden, Sat., March 5 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Hear how Chinese culture influenced English gardens beginning in the 18th century at a talk Tues., March 22 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.

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Check with your local nursery for advice on native pollinator plants. The Xerces Society for Insect Conservation posts lists of native plants on their website (xerces.org) that include color, appearance, water needs and bloom period.

The list of pollinator plants for Southern California includes poppies, lupine, sunflowers, fuschsia, aster and goldenrod.

Supplement pollinators’ diets with a birdbath, fountain, or even the occasional puddle or bit of rotten fruit.

Trees, shrubs, herbs and other plants help feed caterpillars, grubs and the immature stage of other pollinators.

Leave patches of open soil for ground nesting bees and leaf litter to shelter butterflies, bumblebees and other pollinating insects.

Finally, put away pesticides.

Temporary leaf damage is a small price to pay for all the benefits pollinators bring to the garden.

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Hear how to identify and classify plants using printed and digital keys Fridays from 1:30 to 4 p.m.

Organic fruit and vegetable gardening is the topic at a class taught Sat., March 19 from noon to 4 p.m.

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Drought-tolerant alternatives to lawns are discussed at a Crescent Farm class Sat.,

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Traditional uses of native plants, color, design demonstrated at Payne Help clean up and prune the grounds Sat., March 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. Bring a hat, gloves, kneepads and other tools for personal use. Shovels, trowels, rakes, hoes, pruners and refreshments will be provided.

Visit Payne’s booth at the Hollywood Farmers Market at Ivar and Selma Sun., March 6 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Get advice from horticulturists

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Learn about native plant horticulture, Sat., March 12 at 8:30 a.m. or advance to native plant propagation at 9 a.m.

Hear how to replace your lawn with native plants and landscape with Lili Singer, director of special projects and adult education Thurs., March 17 at 9 a.m.

Expand your knowledge of how to maintain a native landscape Sat., March 19 at 9 a.m.

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with Dan Cooper, who is an authority on bird identification and distribution in southern California. He is also author of "Important Bird Areas of California" and more than a dozen peer-reviewed papers on California natural history. He will talk about how these two sensitive bird species depend on low-elevation coastal sage scrub in southern California and in the hills surrounding the L.A. Basin.

See how California natives add color to the garden all year round Sat., March 19 at 1:30 p.m. Steve Gerisher of

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Teachers can get hands-on training on planning, design, plant palettes and installation and maintenance practices for native plant school gardens Tues., March 22 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. This new class includes practical do’s and don’ts, as well as ways to use the garden in conjunction with Common Core Standards.

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Saddling a big-belly horse is a cinch with this Old West trick a few accompanying knee jabs in the horse’s bloated belly.

When the blower was forced to deflate and the saddle was cinched tight, the length of pipe was tucked between the saddle strap and the horse’s belly for future use. A cinch, right? t t t Why is a target in shooting called a “bull’s eye?� queries Anne Mansfield.

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Design Review meeting The next public discussion of the CIM Group proposal for the former Farmers property

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Absolute ease of parking. Hardwood floors. Floor to ceiling windows. One large bedroom. Ensuite bathroom. Light filled living room and dining area.

Kitchen with all amenities. Lots of storage. Underground parking.

Get Sold With The Woodwards

Nobody Knows It Better th 5 Generation in Hancock Park

323 762 2570

We do ONE thing - We get you SOLD Celebrating 80+ Years Serving You!

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118 North Larchmont Blvd 439 N. Canon Dr. | Penthouse Los Angeles, CA 90004 Beverly Hills, CA 90210