My city, South Pasadena, and many others are offering rebates for converting lawns to reduced water-use landscapes. The current rebate program is scheduled to end on June 30, 2015. Clearly, […]
native gardens
Life stages of a native plant garden
Gardens, like people, have life stages. In the beginning, they grow vigorously, even rampantly. Maybe the first year or two seems a bit slow for a new native plant garden. […]
Top 20
People new to using California native plants are often overwhelmed by the many new and unfamiliar plants. Some of us “experts” further confuse these newcomers by using botanical names. Today […]
Why garden with natives?
Early explorers and settlers were awed by the variety and profusion of wildflowers throughout what would become the state of California. Hillsides in spring were painted gold, red, yellow, blue […]
Summer Color (that’s not brown)
There has been a very interesting discussion, Native Plant Stars of the Summer Doldrums, on the California Native Plants google group. As people were sending messages about what is blooming in their […]
Updated Parks and Gardens
Just a quick note to say that the Parks and Gardens Featuring California Native Plants has been updated. The pdf in Weeding Wild Suburbia has also been updated. If I missed […]
Native Gardens Sprouting Up All Over LA
The Parks and Gardens Featuring Native Plants list in the last blog post has been updated. I will continue to update that list and rather than reposting new lists I […]
Parks and Gardens Featuring California Native Plants
Where to see native plants While visiting my daughter in New York City last week I wanted to see habitat or native plant gardens. Though I was not able to […]