Descanso Gardens located in the This article is about the largest city in California. For other uses of Los Angeles, see Los Angeles (disambiguation) Downtown Los Angeles skyline facing northeast toward the San Gabriel Mountains on a clear winter day. Missing from the center foreground of the photo is the Staples Center arena, completed in... Los Angeles suburb of La Cañada Flintridge is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 20,318. Geography La Cañada Flintridge is located at 34°1222 North, 118°1158 West (34.206047, -118.199499)1. According to... La Canada is a 25 acre (101,000 m²) Camellia Categories: Stub | Flowers ... Camellia forest.

At one time the property of the newspaper magnate E. Manchester Boddy (who owned the Los Angeles Daily News is the second largest circulating daily newspaper of Los Angeles, California. It is published by the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns eight other Southern California newspapers including the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and the Long Beach Press-Telegram. The offices of the L.A. Daily... Los Angeles Daily News), he ran a commercial Camellia garden at this location (supplying In the United States, a prom (short for promenade) is a formal dance held at the end of the second-to-last and last year of high school, called junior prom and senior prom respectively. In British English and Australian English such an event would be called a ball, although... prom boutonnières, for example) until he ceded the site to Map of California showing Los Angeles County. Los Angeles County is a county with 9,802,800 residents (as of 2001), the most populous county in California and in the entire United States. The county seat is the city of Los Angeles. The county is home to 88 incorporated cities... Los Angeles County in 1953.

The County has further developed the property to include a world-class rosarium, as well as a Japanese tea house, lilac garden, bird sanctuary, xeriscape, and of course a gift shop. They also regularly host professional Camellia shows, chamber music, and weddings. They are busiest however on the Easter (also called Pascha) is generally accounted the most important holiday of the Christian year, observed March or April each year to celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead (after his death by crucifixion; see Good Friday), which Christians believe happened at about this time of year, almost two... Easter weekend, when the tulips are in bloom and eggs are hidden on the central lawn of one acre (4,000 m²).

The original 22-room house on the site built by Mr. Boddy now hosts a variety of art exhibits, primarily by local painters and ceramists.

External link

Descanso Gardens Official Website (http://www.descanso.com)

See also

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