Capturing native plants on paper

Tucked away just northwest of downtown Los Angeles in the shadows of the Harbor and Hollywood Freeways, Vista Hermosa Natural Park is a welcome patch of green in a vast concrete cityscape.

This Sunday, March 27, at 2:00 pm, join a volunteer docent for a stroll through Vista Hermosa’s gardens, followed by a special drawing session that calls upon your inner naturalist to capture the floral beauty and put to paper images of the native plant species.

It’s all courtesy of our two regional state park agencies—the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy and the Mountains Recreation Conservation Authority, which together help acquire and maintain thousands of acres of precious urban wilderness areas in and around the Los Angeles region.

Vista Hermosa Park is located at 100 N. Toluca Street in Los Angeles. Participants should meet at the Grotto Amphitheatre for the two-hour adventure.

Here’s Vista Hermosa Park’s online information, or call (213) 250-1100.

Posted 3/24/11