We are excited to welcome Lili Singer, Director of Special Projects and Adult Education at the Theodore Payne Foundation, to our Lecture Series.

A popular misconception is that California natives are one-dimensional and bloom in only one season. Join us as Lili will shows us how native plant gardens can be a seasonal showcase of flowers, seed, fruit and foliage. This class illustrates a wealth of trees, shrubs, vines, perennials and grasses that can ensure color all year long.

After the lecture, Lili has graciously consented to answering questions regarding all topics about gardening with natives for an additional 45 minutes.

Lili Singer is a horticultural consultant, educator and garden writer (including many years for the Los Angeles Times). She is Director of Special Projects and Adult Education at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants, a non-profit education center, native plant nursery, seed source and bookstore in Sun Valley. She has published and edited two award-winning periodicals, The Southern California Gardener and The Gardener’s Companion, and for more than a decade, she hosted “The Garden Show,” a live call-in radio program on KCRW-fm. Well-respected for her encyclopedic knowledge of plants, she is a longtime champion of “smart” gardening practices and appropriate plants for our Mediterranean climate. In 1994, Lili received the Mildred E. Mathias Life Achievement Award from the Friends of the Virginia Robinson Gardens in Beverly Hills. In 1996, she was named Horticulturist of the Year by the Southern California Horticultural Society. We are fortunate to be hosting this lecture in the historic la Casita del Arroyo – a classic house and garden built in 1933 on the Arroyo Seco.