Jeanette Marantos

1 week ago | latimes.com | Deborah Netburn |Deborah Vankin |Christopher Reynolds |Jeanette Marantos |Jaclyn Cosgrove |Brittany Levine Beckman | +3 more

Filters Filtered Map List (Patrick Hruby / Los Angeles Times) Lifestyle Share via Email Facebook X LinkedIn Threads Reddit WhatsApp My mom loves to walk. She’ll walk for miles alone, but she’d really prefer to walk with one of her kids. Or better yet, one of her kids and her grandkids. She loves to push a stroller. If your mom is also an avid walker — and would like nothing more than to spend time with you — consider taking her on a Mother’s Day stroll.

1 week ago | seattletimes.com | Jeanette Marantos

Some people see trash and weeds and walk on by. Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don’t do their jobs. And some, like environmental scientist Marie Massa, roll up their sleeves and get to work. In Massa’s case, that’s meant spending six to nine hours a week since early 2023 working mostly alone to transform a long, trash-filled strip of no-man’s land in Los Angeles into a fragrant, colorful habitat of native plants.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Jeanette Marantos

This magenta Declaration lilac is one of 300 rare lilacs in Gary Parton’s Alpenglow Lilac Gardens in Idyllwild, where people can visit for free between May 2 and June 8 during its final season, because Parton is selling his property. Somehow it’s May, and I hope you, unlike me, have already planted your warm-season veggies.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Jeanette Marantos

Angelenos are understandably worried about the toxins deposited by smoke and ash from the Eaton and Palisades urban wildfires in January, but after L.A. Times Plants tested soil around eight burn areas, we discovered some uncomfortable truths:— The results vary considerably. For instance, at two burned homes the lead levels were more than double the state’s limit of 80 milligrams of lead per kilogram of soil (or 80 parts per million).

3 weeks ago | arcamax.com | Jeanette Marantos

LOS ANGELES -- Some people see trash and weeds and walk on by. Others rail against the slobs of the world, or agencies that don't do their jobs. And some, like environmental scientist Marie Massa, roll up their sleeves and get to work.