THE RAMS HORN
The Rams Horn Secret Tea Garden surrounds the TAJ ART INC Studio Gallery. The spaces include a Meditation Labyrinth, and are ideal for quiet contemplation and rejuvenation, as well as magical music, art events, fundraising for animal welfare, tea parties and weddings. The Rams Horn was a historic high class tea room with tables in the flower garden during the hot summer of 1934. The trees still provide shade for teatime.
The Rams Horn
Secret Tea Garden
See the natural wildlife living amongst the English garden, fruit trees, and meditative labyrinth, all designed by Trace Fryer. The large historic avocado tree surrounds a vintage wood carved veranda imported from the east, and historic cottage craftsman buildings circa 1920. The Rams Horn Secret Tea Garden was inspired by actual historical events that happened in 1934 by well-known educator Miss Anne Loomis Shepherd, a renaissance women, much like Trace, who lived in the cottage (now TAJ ART INC Studio Gallery) and created The Rams Horn a high class tea room with tables in the garden.
Trace created a rose garden The Anne Loomis Shepard Rose Garden and The Rams Horn Secret Tea Garden in honor today; she was a most widely known prominent educator of the community and principal at Rockdale school. She is of the lineage of John Wesley North who founded the City of Riverside and worked with President Abraham Lincoln. Now, Trace and John Fryer’s garden is a Certified National Wildlife Federation sanctuary and hopes to be protected for many generations to come.
Golden Gates leading to the Secret Gardens and Meditation Labyrinth
Plants in the corridor of the Courtyard
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July 6, 1934, Eagle Rock Sentinel, Well Known Educator Miss Anne Loomis Shepard Open's The Rams Horn
Meditation Labyrinth
Angels and ascended masters watch over the grounds with sentient creatures by their sides. Step lightly, fairies, pixies and gnomes underfoot!
Pets & Wildlife
AVOIDING CONFLICTS BY TAKING PRECAUTIONS TO LIVE IN HARMONY
Our animals that live with us are a big part of our families. Birds-of-Prey, Rattlesnakes and Coyotes, Cars and other Dogs are serious threats and take the lives of these precious animals. Coyotes that live near cities and towns do kill dogs and cats.
People get upset and mourn when dogs and cats killed by coyotes as they are family members. There is a coyote family living in your neighborhood, but usually you never see them. What do you suggest be done to keep coyotes from killing neighborhood pets? Start by following the steps listed below.
Harmony & Nature
The garden is a Certified National Wildlife Federation sanctuary, which creates places for wildlife to nourish by providing habitat and recourses such as water, shelter and plants for wildlife to thrive. Our garden is poison free and organic. It’s a reprieve from the concrete hustle of city life.
Just a few simple tips! Find ways to not kill or use chemicals in your garden, nor in your home! The city of Malibu practices poision and humane treatment for wildlife https://poisonfreemalibu.org/ has more detailed information.
For bugs and fleas:
1) For bugs, use Castile soap or wildlife approved Dawn soap, just a few tablespoons in a gallon of water and spray around home, don’t touch the flowers and try not to spray on the bugs, let it dry, it will repeal them.
2) For fleas, inside your home, use a hot steamer and vacuum. Can use baking soda and Castile soap with a little teaspoon of epson salt in a gallon of water, let dry while keeping pets away, then vacuum.
3) If you just can’t wash it, like some pillows, steam it, throw it in the dryer on hot heat! Wash all bedding and any fabrics, carpets, clothing, etc. on heat in washer and/or dryer.
For rodents and wildlife critters:
1) For gophers and such, try to co-exist, they aerate your soil for you, helping your plants thrive, we are neighbors after all! If you must, use ammonia, a few teaspoons poke into a hole on top of their mounds in your yard, they will not want to be there and move on, no killing involved.
2) For mice and rats, and other cuties such as opossums and squirrels, they remove Lyme disease by eating the ticks and intruders for you ;instead help them, install one way doors on your home, find “exclusion” openings and seal them, even a quarter sized space they can start to get through. Do live trap and release nearby within 50 feet if necessary, no killing involved.
Don’t be afraid, all animals exist for their own reasons and have a right to life. Let’s all thrive and stay alive together! They are beneficial to our ecosystem, for example, opossums eat the ticks in your yard to help your doggies thrive. Learn to appreciate them and co-exist. Animals are our friends. Blessings.
1) Walk your dog on a leash and accompany your pet outside; dusk, night and morning coyotes are most active, but are out during day as well. Do not allow pets to run free at anytime, even day! Coyotes are out all times of day and night. Do not lose sight of any and all dogs or cats, coyotes, rattlesnakes, and birds-of-prey will appear from nowhere to swiftly grab your dog or cat, large dogs will be lured into a pack and killed; coyotes are hardly ever seen, and are nicknamed ‘tricksters’.
2) Remind yourself there is a ‘leash law’ to protect you and your pets from other dogs, coyotes, birds-of-prey, rattlesnakes, strangers, poisonous edibles, and cars; dogs have an instinct that overrides any loyalty or training, they can dart unexpectedly and be hit by cars, or attacked by other dogs; be cautious of coyotes, birds-of-prey and cars when freely roaming streets so always use a leash, it’s the law!
3) Keep small pets such as cats, rabbits, and small dogs indoors, especially at night, but coyotes are active and hunt during the day, they are easy, favored prey. Coyotes have been known to be responsible for a large number of cat and dog disappearances in a single residential neighborhood. They have been known to attack dogs on leashes as well, always be aware of your surroundings. Invest in a dog and cat kennel, it will be your best investment ever! Not only does it help with behavioral issues, kennels save not only your pets life but other wildlife.
4) Fencing should be at least 6-8 feet high with the bottom extending 6 inches below ground level for best results, try adding roller bars to the tops, adding rattlesnake mesh or concrete 2-3 feet above and below fencing in the ground to prevent rattlesnakes from coming into your yard or preventing coyotes from digging and getting under fencing; coyotes climb fences swiftly to attack dogs and cats left outside, and will climb fences 8 feet high, so do not leave pets outside even in yards, always supervise they do not interact with wildlife!
5) Bird feeders should be positioned so that coyotes can’t get the feed. Coyotes are attracted by bread, table scraps, fruit and even seed. They may also be attracted by birds and rodents that come to the feeders and fruit trees; eliminate sources of water, particularly in dry climates. Secure trash cans. Watch for snakes around steps, pots, creviced walkways, hillsides. Feed pets indoors.
“Welcome, welcome little stranger, Fear no harm, and fear no danger; We are glad to see you here, For you sing “Sweet Spring is near.” Now the white snow melts away; Now the flowers blossom gay; Come dear bird and build your nest, For we love our robin best.”
— Louisa May Alcott
