Visit the website for entry forms and information. Winners will be announced June 10, with prizes from $50 to $125, depending on garden size. Gardens will be judged on their overall beauty and functionality for all local butterflies to be eligible, they must be primarily composed of native plants. Gardens must be in the communities of Canyon Lake, Hemet, Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Murrieta, Perris, Temecula, Wildomar or Winchester and will be evaluated in four categories, ranging from extra small (25 square feet or less, including container gardens) to larger than 125 square feet. Gardens should include California native nectar plants for adult butterflies and host plants for the caterpillars (based on information on the California Native Plant Society’s database under the “butterflies” tab). The first Butterfly Garden Contest for gardens in southwest Riverside County, sponsored by the Santa Margarita Group of the San Gorgonio chapter of the Sierra Club. at 25025 Fern Valley Road in Idyllwild-Pine Cove. Idyllwild Lilac Garden is open weekends from 9 a.m. Admission is $22 adults $20 seniors 60+ and military $10 for children ages 3-10 free for children under 3. The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch are still in bloom and open for visits from 9 a.m. Email events to at least three weeks before they happen, and we might include them in the calendar. Here’s a list of garden- and plant-related events and activities for May. Compost makes a fine mulch, especially for vegetable gardens, but you can also use straw or leaves to retain moisture and help rebuild the soil. Now is the time to finish planting, the sooner the better, and mulch, mulch, mulch before the heat is upon us, baking the tender roots of your veggies and flowers. SoCal gardeners also can find several gardening classes.
You also can find several flower shows in May, featuring orchids, geraniums and chrysanthemums, or just visit botanic gardens or flower farms to catch the tail end of spectacular spring blooms.
If you prefer to stay closer to L.A., and whimsical forms are your thing, check out South Coast Botanic Garden’s new exhibit of more than 100 artfully shorn plants called “Flamboyance - A Topiary Menagerie.” The exhibit, which runs through July 31, features topiary animals in six groups along the front half of the garden, including “70 life-sized flamingos filled with begonias, a pack of dogs, a fluffle of rabbits, a troop of monkeys, a swarm of butterflies and a pod of dolphins.” The exhibit is free with a general admission ticket.
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Parton, who said he’s “old-school,” doesn’t have a website and his Facebook page hasn’t been updated since 2021, but visitors can wander for free on weekends between 9 a.m. In this mountain town where winter is just receding, his 300 lilac bushes are at their peak in May - especially Mother’s Day weekend - said Parton, a retired El Camino Junior College art teacher, who moved from Torrance to Idyllwild in the late 1990s. The colors range from blue-violet and magenta to pinks and whites and, of course, dark purples, some of which resemble the burgundy hues of red wine. If you don’t mind a little drive, take a day trip to Idyllwild to wander Gary Parton’s colorful and fragrant Idyllwild Lilac Garden, with 165 different colors of the old-fashioned flowers that resemble clusters of tiny grapes with an intoxicating scent, sometimes spicy and sometimes sweet. Amazingly, it’s May and somehow we are on the brink of summer, a time when flowers - and flower shows - are blooming profusely around Southern California.
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