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Datebook: events, classes and exhibitions

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Plan the week ahead! We’ve listed select home and garden events. Suggest your own via reader comments. Submissions must be fewer than 50 words and must be for one-time events with legitimate value to other readers. No store promotions, no frivolous links. L.A. at Home staff will determine which submissions will be made public, but we will not be editing the text.

Thursday, Sept. 10: Huntington Botanical Gardens nursery volunteer Tim Harvey will share tips for growing successful container plants as well as succulents in the ground. A plant sale follows the talk. Free. 2:30 p.m. Friends’ Hall, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. No reservations required.

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Thursday, Sept. 10:Keegan Roehr of Native Spaces Garden Design leads this three-session, sustainability-driven course for home gardeners. Covers developing design styles, modeling a garden after patterns in nature, devising a base/plot plan and refining hardscape materials, irrigation and soils. Sponsored by Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24 and Oct. 8. $135 to $180 per person, $195 to $255 per couple. All Steel, the Water Garden, 1620 26th St., Suite 100S, Santa Monica. Registration required. (818) 768-1802. More events after the jump.

Saturday, Sept.12: Descanso Gardens’ native plant expert Kevin O’Connell leads a leisurely hike through the park’s chaparral with an emphasis on scent. 9 to 11 a.m. Meet at the visitors center. $8 to $10. 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge. Registration: (818) 949-7980.

Saturday, Sept. 12:Landscape designer John Lyons leads this class on soil. Topics include composting, vermiculture, compost and worm teas, leaf mold, cover crops and the correct use of mulches. 9 a.m. to noon. $22 to $25. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Reservations: (626) 821-4624. Ongoing:“Masters of Mid-Century California Modernism — Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman” includes more than 200 examples of ceramics, tile mosaics, wood carvings, textiles and other crafts from the Culver City couple. Through Jan. 10. $4 to $7. Mingei International Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego. (619) 239-0003.

Ongoing: “Edith Heath: Tabletop Modernist” focuses on the life of a classic California designer and her influence through pottery. $5 to $7. Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union St. Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, through Sept. 20. (626) 568-3665.

-- Lisa Boone

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