Garden Calendar

* Class on making main course vegetable salads, Friday, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Descanso Gardens, 1418 Descanso Drive, La Canada Flintridge, (818) 952-4401; https://www.descanso.com. $35.

* Children’s workshop on prehistoric plants and dinosaurs, Saturday, 9-11:30 a.m., Huntington Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, (626) 405-2141; https://www.huntington.org. $12 registration includes materials and admission for one accompanying adult.

* Class on palms and tropical plants, and how to use them. Saturday, 10 a.m.-noon, Arboretum of Los Angeles County, 301 N. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia, (626) 821-3222. $18.

* Self-guided tour of six residential gardens in Manhattan Beach, plus an “artisan’s marketplace” and community garden, Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., beginning at the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden, Polliwog Park on Peck Avenue, just north of Manhattan Beach Boulevard, (310) 371-8015. Tickets cost $18.

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Send garden announcements to Garden Events, Los Angeles Times, 202 W. 1st St., Los Angeles, CA 90012, at least three weeks before the event date.