The Ojai Garden

Volunteers from the community enjoyed Saturday’s cooler weather at the Demo Garden’s second pruning workshop of the month with John Lamar. Photos by Les Dublin.

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Grab your shears and head out to the Demo Garden to learn and practice naturalistic pruning under the expert guidance of local horticulturist and landscape designer John Lamar. This additional hands-on pruning workshop will take place on Saturday, February 24, from 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M. Please bring sharp, sterile shears, if you have them. Photo by Les Dublin.

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Daffodils and snowdrops look refreshed after Sunday night's rain. Photos by Les Dublin.

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happy Chinese New Year, all!

spent the last few days almost entirely
in the garden ... got most of our old garden
moved to the new land ...

and a garden-party yesterday, a 'garden-raising'!

first time in my life, that I can recall,
after more than a hundred gardens created,
that we have tomatoes on the vine in February,
and spinach and mustard and onions and garlic
ready to pick ... and cucumber plants a
foot long ...

if we have sacred water and land, we can
even find some positive aspects to a winter
with the highest global temperature on record.

witnessing the returning of all our relations,

guided by the song of our oldest ancestors,

in the Year 2007 of HER re-awakening ...

Millennium Twain

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Gardening enthusiasts from all over the county came to the City of Ojai Community Demonstration Garden Saturday to learn about pruning from horticulturist John Lamar. A record crowd of thirty people attended the workshop. Not surprisingly, many participants had questions about frost-damaged plants in their own backyards. Photos by Les Dublin.

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Learn how to prune and create naturally shaped trees and shrubs in a hands-on workshop with local horticulturist and landscape designer John Lamar. Natural pruning stimulates flowering and fruiting, contains the size of plants, and helps conserve water. FInd out when and how to prune your frost damaged plants. This free, two hour workshop will begin at 10:00 A.M. The City of Ojai Community Demonstration Garden is located at 401 South Ventura Street, behind Ojai City Hall.

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Perfect weather added to the appeal of a captivating and highly informative herbal workshop with Carol Wade in the CIty of Ojai Community Demonstration Garden. Participants went home with a surprise gift from Carol — a bottle of freshly made calendula oil. Photos by Les Dublin.

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