John Trager, curator of the Desert Collection at the Huntington Botanical Gardens, will give an illustrated talk on the succulent landscape created by Pasadena gardener Alice Stiles at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, November 7, at the Pacific Palisades Woman’s Club, 901 Haverford. Hosted by the Pacific Palisades Garden Club, Trager will discuss Stiles’ creative plant gatherings, found objects and other elements that she has added to her whimsical garden. Trager has been at the Huntington Botanical Gardens since 1983. Prior to that, he worked with master propagator Frank Horwood at Abbey Garden Nursery, when it was located in Carpinteria. Trager’s horticultural writings have appeared in the Cactus and Succulent Journal, the Euphorbia Journal, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Garden Record, Garden (the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society), the Rock Garden Quarterly and Flora, the two-volume encyclopedia published in 2003. He is perhaps better known for his photography’over 2,000 of his images have been published in numerous textbooks and horticultural journals including Aloe, American Horticulture and Fine Gardening. Book projects include co-authorship and photography for ‘Dry Climate Gardening with Succulents,’ produced by the Huntington. Trager, who lives in Sierra Madre, has traveled widely in search of plants (and insects) including to China, Costa Rica, Israel, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand and Venezuela. He holds a bachelor’s degree in horticulture from Cal Poly Pomona. Monday’s meeting is free and open to the public.
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