Memorial Park Puts Its Finery on View at Garden Show

Landscapes created by numerous organizations were displayed at the 24th annual Southern California Spring Garden Show.

In a first for the long-running Southern California Spring Garden Show, a memorial park entered an exhibition.

The 13x26 foot display, created by landscapers from Fairhaven Memorial Park, employed a broad array of natural and man-made components from its grounds including branches taken from park's trees that are more than 100 years old, a wooden bench and a 6-foot tall wooden obelisk tower with grape vines, a flowing water feature illuminated brightly at the fountainhead, and seven demonstration cremation boulders.

"As the first organization outside of the landscape industry to participate in the Spring Garden Show in many years, we are honored to showcase Fairhaven's longstanding history as a place of natural beauty," said Fairhaven President Marla Noel.

According to Noel, elements from the display will also be featured in Eternal Springs, an expansion of Fairhaven's Santa Ana memorial park. The project, which is slated to break ground this month, will feature a running stream, cremation boulders and lush landscaping to create, what the designers and builders hope, is a serene, contemporary environment that families will want to visit and will find comforting.

The Southern California Spring Garden Show, in its 24th year, showcases a number of landscape gardens designed by leading landscape architects and designers. The gala also features seminars, children's events and specialty garden vendors.