CLASSES AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

 

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Community Education Classes, Winter, 2006

Call (909) 625-8767 x224 to register or for more information.

 

Saturday, January 21, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon—and Sunday, January 22, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Garden Walk: Focus on Manzanitas

Manzanitas (Arctostaphylos spp.) comprise one of the more important groups of shrubs in the chaparral habitat of Southern California. This Garden walk will showcase many species and cultivated varieties of manzanitas in the Garden’s collection and participants will come to appreciate manzanitas for their abundance and diversity.

 

RSABG staff

$5 ($7 nonmember) for each session

Code: 061HRT100 (Saturday) and Code: 061HRT101 for Sunday

 

Sunday, January 29, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

California Native Plants for the Garden: Booksigning and Author Panel Discussion

Come to one of only a few booksignings with all three authors. The new book, California Native Plants for the Garden by Carol Bornstein, David Fross and RSABG’s very own Bart O’Brien, features in-depth profiles of more than 200 of the best native plants for gardens and landscapes. Enjoy meeting the authors and listen to stories of their favorite plant selections. Books will be available for purchase in the California Garden Shop.

 

Bart O’Brien, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Carol Bornstein, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

David Fross, Native Sons Nursery

NO fee charged for this special author event, however an RSVP is required. Code: 061HRT102

 

Saturday, February 11, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon and Sunday, February 12 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Garden Walk: Focus on Conifers: Included in the California flora are some of the most beautiful and diverse conifers in the world and include redwoods, pines, firs, cedars, cypresses and junipers. This walk will take visitors through the Garden to learn about the conifers in our extensive collection.

 

RSABG staff

$5 ($7 nonmember) for each session. Code: 061HRT103 (Saturday) Code: 061HRT104 for Sunday

 

Saturday, February 25, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon

Pictorial Tour of Spectacular Native Plant Gardens in LA and Environs

Are you a novice to native plant gardening or just looking for new ways to display California’s bounty of native plants in your home garden? Barbara Eisenstein has an extensive collection of native plant garden photos that she is eager to share and discuss with participants. Without leaving your seat, “visit” oak woodland, chaparral, desert, bird and butterfly gardens. Afterwards, Barbara will lead a walk in the Garden and point out some of the showiest and hardiest natives that can be incorporated into home landscapes.

 

Barbara Eisenstein, Horticultural Outreach

$12 ($15 nonmember) Limit: 15 participants. Code: 061HRT105

 

Saturday, January 21, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm

Create an Herbarium: Preparing and Mounting Botanical Specimens

Botanists and plant lovers discover before long that they need a reference collection to make accurate identifications, as models for line drawings, or as art (suitable for framing). This class will cover herbarium specimens, from live material to mounted plants. We will cover collecting permits and conservation ethics, demonstrate field techniques and label preparation; and students will press and mount specimens themselves. Pressed plants are important historical documents and a primary data source for our understanding of the world's biodiversity, so we will tour the RSA Herbarium to look at specimens and their use in the botanical literature.

 

Scott White, Consulting Botanist

$50 ($60 nonmember) Limit: 15 participants. Code: 061BOT100

 

Saturday, January 28, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Intermediate Field Botany

This class is for the plant enthusiast or amateur botanist who wants to be able to identify plants in the field. Participants will gain experience using field guides, identification manuals and technical floras. More importantly, they will learn some practical and fun “field-sense” when trying to identify plants. The class sessions are informal and hands-on, with dissection and examination of fresh and dried plant material.  Completion of Beginning Field Botany recommended, but not required.

 

Lorrae Fuentes, Director of Education, RSABG

$72 ($90 nonmember) Limit: 15 participantsCode: 061BOT101

 

Saturday, February 4, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm -Class Session; Sunday, February 5, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm—Field Session.

Botanical Surveys and Reports for Botanists, Planners, and Citizens

This class looks at how professional field botanists do their work, and how they can do it better. The instructor guides participants in taking a critical look at botany in the realm of environmental legislation. Participants will review agency policies, describe planning for rare plant surveys, field techniques, look briefly at statistical analysis, and outline report contents. Participants will learn field methods for rare plant surveys and collecting vegetation data. The instructor will provide sample report outlines and formats,

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