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Datebook: Events, exhibits, classes for the week ahead

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We’ve listed select home and garden events below. Suggest your own via reader comments. Submissions must be fewer than 75 words and must be for one-time events with legitimate value to other readers. No store promotions and no frivolous links, please. L.A. at Home staff will determine which submissions will be made public, but we won’t edit the text.

Thursday: Genevieve Arnold, seed room manager at the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers & Native Plants, leads a class on collecting, processing and storing native plant seed. Part of the Lili Singer lecture series. 9:30 a.m. to noon. $20. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. (626) 821-4623.

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Saturday: Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden’s spring open house provides free admission plus garden tours at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. A Native American cultural and historical interpretive display and presentations run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. 1500 N. College Ave., Claremont. Free. (909) 625-8767.

Saturday: Entomologist Eric Grissell discusses “The Amazing Lives of Bees, Wasps and Ants,” how insects collectively called Hymenoptera are among the most beneficial. Lecture begins at 6:30 p.m. Arboretum will be open at 5 p.m. for a tour of the Engelmann Oak Grove led by Jim Henrich, curator of living collections; tram with very limited space leaves at 5:15 p.m., tour at grove begins at 5:30 p.m. sharp. Free. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. (626) 821-4623.

Saturday: This class on strawberries, blueberries and cane berries covers when and where to buy plants, tips for abundant crops, guidelines for tending and harvesting, best soil and fertilizers, watering schedule, pruning, disease prevention, insect and bird control; and trellising methods. 10 a.m. to noon. Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. $25 to $28. (626) 821-4623.

Saturday and Sunday: Descanso Gardens launches a Japanese festival tied to the blooming of its cherry trees. Traditional Japanese tea ceremony is scheduled for at 11 a.m., 12:30 and 2 p.m. Saturday. Cooking demonstration are slated for 11 a.m. Sunday. Guided tours of the gardens’ seven flowering cherry trees will be at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. both days. Other festivities will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days. Cherry trees will be available for purchase. Festival is included in regular admission of $3 to $8. 1418 Descanso Drive, La Cañada Flintridge. (818) 949-4200.

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Ackerman, Aguiñiga: “A Marriage of Craft and Design: The Work of Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman” includes examples of ceramics, tile mosaics, wood carvings, textiles and other crafts from the Culver City couple. “Crossing the Line: A Space by Tanya Aguiñiga,” is a site-specific structure made by the artist best known for felted furniture. Ends May 8. $5 to $7. Craft and Folk Art Museum, 5814 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 937-4230.

Bischoff exhibition: The retrospective “Gardens and Grandeur: Porcelains and Paintings by Franz A. Bischoff,” features Bischoff’s early hand-painted ceramic works and landscape paintings. Noon to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Sundays, through March 20. $5 to $7. Pasadena Museum of California Art, 490 E. Union St., Pasadena. (626) 568-3665.

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Brown Bag Tuesdays: The Gamble House, the Arts and Crafts landmark designed by Charles and Henry Greene, allows visitors to picnic on the rear lawn or terrace of the 1908 estate between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Twenty-minute docent-led tours will be given at 12:15 and 12:45 p.m. $5. 4 Westmoreland Place, Pasadena; (626) 793-3334. Reservations: (626) 449-4178. Kahn in Venice: An exhibition of travel sketches by Louis Kahn documents the time in Italy spent by the architect whose work includes the Salk Institute in La Jolla. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday (closed from 1 to 2 p.m.), 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Free. Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Los Angeles, 1023 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles. (310) 443-3250.

Technology and design: Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles exhibition “Soupergreen” explores the way that technology can promote architecture and the environment. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, noon to 6 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Ends April 14. $2 to $5. 6032 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. (323) 932-9393.

Wexler show: “Steel and Shade: The Architecture of Donald Wexler” is a survey of drawings, photographs and models by the noted architect. They are augmented by professional photographs and new models fabricated by Cal Poly students, including a full-scale sectional steel model illustrating the prefabrication system that Wexler used in his steel houses. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays through Sundays. Ends May 29. $5 to $12.50. Palm Springs Art Museum, 101 Museum Drive, Palm Springs.(760) 322-4800.

— Lisa Boone

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