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August Garden News
Plant of the Moment: Red Bird of Paradise or Poinciana (Caesalpinia pulcherrima). The forecourt is a blaze of color as this West Indies native comes…
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UCLA Student Eileen Skalky Researches History at Rancho Los Cerritos
Eileen Skalky, an Anthropologie student at UCLA recently contacted the Rancho to make a research appointment. She is following in the footsteps of her great…
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Plants and Birds of the Moment
The Heliotropum (Heliotrope) is looking beautiful this month. In Adobe Days, Sarah Bixby Smith lists the plants she remembers from Temple’s garden. She ends with,…
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The Artisan Collection & Legacy Collection
The Rancho Los Cerritos museum shop is full of one-of-a-kind products. These products are hand made by local artisans and volunteers. These hand-made products belong…
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Garden Updates
Grass Resodding Our grass is being resodded so that it will look great for when we can have in-person events in the future. This means…
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Shining A Light on Women’s History: Fanny Bixby Spencer
Recruited by Long Beach Police Captain Tom Williams as a "social experiment" in January 1908, Fanny Bixby Spencer (1879-1930) is believed to have been America's…
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Plant of the moment: Princess Flower!
Plant of the moment: the Princess Flower The princess flower (pictured above) or the Tibourchina urvillean, has 3-4” leaves that can be green, yellow,…
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Meet the Summer Interns! Taryn and Misael
Meet the Summer Interns! Hello everyone! We are so excited to be interning at Rancho Los Cerritos this summer. Even though things are a bit…
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