Pitzer in the News 2005-2006 Academic Year

Arboretum Director Joe Clements and President Trombley Cited in Los Angeles Times

An article about landscaping with cacti and succulents was published in the Home and Garden section of the June 1, 2006 edition of the Los Angeles Times.

"Cacti are really growing in popularity," echoes Joe Clements, director of the arboretum at Pitzer College in Claremont and former curator of the desert garden at the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino. "People have latched onto the idea that they look good all year round." Pitzer has installed drought-tolerant landscaping around the campus, and the school's president, Laura Skandera Trombley, recently ripped up an H2O-gulping lawn for a mix of local cactuses and succulents.