Highlights

I Can Garden

Gardening is a creative activity. It is also very practical. To encourage everyone to garden, designer Scott Daigre approached The Arboretum with a challenge to do the “I Can Garden” Program. The concept is elegantly simple in a galvanized garbage can, fill them with potting soil and bring in people from all walks of life to create portable gardens. Inspiration for these Garden Cans comes from the heart, the plants, and the professions of these not-so-frequent gardeners. If you have a yard or even only a can, we want to show our guests that EVERYONE CAN GARDEN, AND SO CAN YOU!

“I CAN” Gardeners:

Zinnia South Pasadena
Larry Wilson, Public Editor, Star News
Learning Works
Bob Harbicht, City of Arcadia
Dusty Gibbs, 2008 Rose Queen
Janet Sporleder, Arcadia Librarian
Alexis Nadeau, Kidspace Museum
Randy Votsch, Convalescent Aid
Janet Wood, Golf Course
Sheriff Leroy D. Baca
Peggy Galbraith, Childrens Hosp
Nancy Dorn
Caroline Brown, Sierra Madre Mountains Conservancy
John Rabe, KPCC
Marina Wang, Tina Myint
Gretchen Sterling, Pasadena Farmers Market
Assemblymen Anthony Portantino 2 p.m.
Jeanette O’Malley, Pasadena Museum of History
Christina Alvarado, CCIS
Andy Byrne, Arroyo Seco Foundation
Lafitte Pincay, jockey
Queena Kim, KPCC
Sally Cook, Heirloom Bakery

And many more…

A note of thanks to all our I CAN GARDENERS, to NorWesCo who donated the galvanized cans, Kellogg Gardens who donated the potting soil, and Monrovia Growers and Armstrong Nurseries who donated some of the plants. Also, a special thanks to Marcia Bent, Peggy Rahn and Peggy Stewart for coordinating this program in this first year.