{"id":79074,"date":"2017-07-20T14:55:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=79074"},"modified":"2017-07-20T15:05:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T19:05:32","slug":"summer-nights-in-the-garden-at-l-a-s-natural-history-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=79074","title":{"rendered":"Summer Nights in the Garden at L.A.’s Natural History Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wisps of Dalea greggii with opuntia and ‘Sharkskin’ agave atop the Living Wall.<\/small><\/p>\n

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Sunset and St. Catherine’s Lace, Eriogonum giganteum<\/small><\/p>\n

Finally, an opportunity to grab some “magic hour” photos of Mia Lehrer’s<\/a> entrance garden (former parking lot) at the Natural History Museum<\/a>. Theoretically anyway. Their Summer Nights in the Garden<\/a> extends hours from 5-9 p.m. on a few select Friday nights in July and August. Except leaving Long Beach last Friday around 5:30 p.m. landed us in a tar pit of nasty commuter traffic, and in exasperation we ultimately elected to jump off the gridlocked freeway, head for the nearest Metro<\/a> station, park, grab a train, change trains to the Expo line at Pico, all of which had us arriving too late for photos. <\/p>\n

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But you should really go. And start off with the train. The Expo line drops you right at the gate. And light or no light, it was pure summer magic.<\/p>\n

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“Awaken your senses at the Summer Nights in the Garden at the new NHM with great music, garden-inspired cocktails, hands-on garden and science projects, food trucks and more<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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The vibrant colors in the habitat-rich “Living Wall” of Pritchard flagstone were muted, but the palo verde trees glowed in the last sliver of light of the day. <\/p>\n

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And it\u2019s completely free. <\/p>\n

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When we arrived after 7 p.m., the DJ’d party was in full swing. <\/p>\n

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The next Summer Night in the Garden will be July 28, and then finally August 11 and 25. Take the Metro to arrive in time for photos of that gorgeous Montana flagstone. And if you don’t have kids, borrow some, because there’s lots for them to do. Or just come and have a drink, grab something from the food trucks or your own picnic basket, chill, listen to the music under the stars. Summer in the city doesn’t get any finer.<\/p>\n

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Wisps of Dalea greggii with opuntia and ‘Sharkskin’ agave atop the Living Wall. Sunset and St. Catherine’s Lace, Eriogonum giganteum Finally, an opportunity to grab some “magic hour” photos of Mia Lehrer’s entrance garden (former parking lot) at the Natural … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[28,551,112],"tags":[4564,4765,1579,4764,4343,4763],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-kzo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79074"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79229,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79074\/revisions\/79229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}