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12 | April 11, 2019 | Malibu surfside news news malibusurfsidenews.com MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS is looking for local FREELANCE REPORTERS and PHOTOGRAPHERS to cover events, meetings and sports in the area. Interested individuals should send an email with a resume and any clips to lauren@malibusurfsidenews.com MALIBU'S TOP SOURCE FOR NEWS & INFORMATION MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS New campaign to help Malibu Creek State Park Abhinanda Datta Interim Editor The Malibu Creek State Park’s GoFundMe campaign will help them rebuild the signs burned during the Woolsey Fire. Photos Submitted Burned trail entrance signs that welcome visitors, damaged by the Woolsey Fire. The Woolsey Fire in November left a trail of widespread devastation all over the city, and the Malibu Creek State Park was not immune to it. Many of the trail signs and information displays were damaged and while nature is recovering, the Malibu Creek Docents have organized a fundraising campaign to help with the park’s recovery. Considered the recreational crown jewel of the Santa Monica Mountains, the Malibu Creek State Park has more than 8,200 acres of pristine open space visited by more than 300,000 visitors annually from the surrounding area, as well as from across the country and around the world. The park offers jagged peaks, canyon vistas, mountain slopes of dense chaparral and aromatic sage, cool riparian woodlands, grassy savannahs dotted with oak trees, exposures of volcanic rock surrounding a captivating pool of water for outdoor enthusiasts and families. When visitors come to Malibu Creek State Park, they are greeted by information display panels and trail signs to help navigate the trails and provide useful information during their visit. The campaign aims to install 20 new trail signs that cost $50 each, and 10 display panels for $900. The Malibu Creek Docents Association is a nonprofit, all-volunteer organization whose mission is to enhance the public’s experience in the park. “The State Parks staff are busy with removal of the debris and rebuilding of the damaged infrastructure, so our volunteer docent organization has organized a GoFundMe campaign to replace and/or install new trail signage throughout the Park to make it easier for our visitors to navigate around the Park,” said Sasan Sheibani, volunteer for Malibu Creek Docents Association. “We also plan to install information panels at key locations in the Park to capture some of its rich human and film history and make our visitors’ experience much richer as they hike around the Park.” For more information on how you can get involved, visit: www.malibucreekstatepark.org/docents
malibusurfsidenews.com news Malibu surfside news | April 11, 2019 | 13 Malibu Garden Club takes members on a floral journey Barbara Burke, Freelance Reporter On the morning of April 3, the Malibu Garden Club toured Gardens of the World in Thousand Oaks, a private, impeccably landscaped footprint featuring gardens from various cultures. As they began their tour, the attendees enjoyed coffee and pastries in the picnic area where convivial conversations launched their experience. Idyllic, inviting breezeways, expansive terraces, intriguing structures and manicured trees including London plane trees, embraced the party as aromas from various rose species that were just beginning to bloom filled the morning air. As attendees walked up a small incline past the grand American bandstand, they were welcomed by Docent Stan Bochniak. “The founders of the garden, Ed and Lynn Hogan, who owned Pleasant Holidays tours, built the gardens so as to commemorate various cultures,” he said. “Therefore, the tour is not so much a botanical tour as a cultural tour and we start with an American bandstand, a structure popular in the U.S. and Britain that served as a communal gathering place for everything from jazz concerts to military parades to President Lincoln’s famous address.” Approaching the Italian gardens, visitors are transported to romantic Roma as Venus de Milo’s statue oversees a chain fountain’s gentle flow of water before passing topiary-blessed terraces approaching pergolas that host grape leaves. “This garden features Italian Cypress trees and lavender plants, species that do well in the heat,” Bochniak explained. “If you look there, you will see the Kadota fig which is the fruit used for fig newtons and some black mission figs.” Next, the English gardens beckoned attendees with their beautiful rose bushes. Malibu Garden Club members meandered through the Gardens of the World on April 3. Barbara Burke/22nd Century Media “This is a typical rose garden arranged with precise symmetry,” Bochniak said. “There are close to 300 rose bushes on the property, but one very interesting one is the white rose that derives from the War of the Roses, wherein the House of Lancaster fought the House of York, that is until Henry VII married Elizabeth of York and ended the war.” Columbia roses are beginning to bloom, bright yellow and perfectly positioned near artichokes which, Bochiak said, “blossom into gorgeous plants with vibrant purple flowers inside.” The group segued to the English Gardens that enjoy the company of perennials of all types of colors and textures and bespeak of lazy summer days spent in luscious landscapes amid English cottages. “This is absolutely beautiful,” murmured Glen Gessford, president of the Malibu Garden Club. “One doesn’t see many gardens like this anywhere.” Bochniak explained that the garden employs three full-time gardeners, uses water judiciously and only uses organic gardening methods. The group marveled before the French gardens. “This is a replica of the gardens at the Palace of Versailles,” Bochniak said. “See how the French approach gardening as depicting man’s mastery over nature, while an English garden is more freeform.” “The French garden is best viewed from above so that one can see that the labyrinthian bushes are configured into a beautiful butterfly,” Bochniak shared. “You will see that the French arrange their gardens with a perfectly spaced 50-50 balanced symmetry, while Japanese gardens, although very balanced, are configured such that 30 percent of the foliage is on one side of a walkway and 70 percent is on another, or perhaps such that different allocated percentages of plants compose the space.” Next was a Mission Courtyard, its architecture commemorating California’s early history when Father Junipero Serra oversaw the establishment of a series of missions strategically planned to be one day’s walk apart from one another as one travels up the Pacific Coast from San Diego. A statue of Serra greets visitors as they enter a courtyard with pomegranate and guava trees and large coastal oaks. The interior has a fountain and breezeways beautified by murals depicting the 21 missions. Finally, down a curvaceous walkway, awaits the traditional Japanese garden. “The path winds this way and that because the Japanese tradition instructs that will keep out evil spirits.” Bochniak said. Tranquil, the Japanese Pagoda is an experience. The tsukubai is described in the tour brochure as “a water basin placed low to the ground so that no guests, no matter their social status, are forced to bend into a humbling position in order to purify themselves.” The hatsunugi is “an entrance to the Pagoda used to place sandals prior to entering, with a custom of pointing the sandals back to the garden so they are ready to go.” The pagoda’s rich mahogany flooring shines brightly, highlighting an alluring area affording an opportunity for one to momentarily mediate at the rock encircled with the straw rope, known as a shim-nawa, that designates a dwelling place of gods. The tour ended with a leisurely lunch.
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