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Yes, You Can Create a Native Plant Garden!
A California native plant garden can fit every type of style and budget. Find inspiration and resources here! -
Native Grass Alternatives to Lawns
Consider replacing your turf with native grasses and grass-like plants that require less water and fewer resources to maintain. -
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Gauging your site conditions will help you choose the right native plants for your garden and bring beauty and pollinators to your site! -
Garden Q&A – Design tips to please your HOA
Follow these design tips to create a native plant garden will be enjoyed by both you and your homeowners association (HOA). -
Fall Native Foods – Explore autumn’s edible offerings
California native plant gardens offer an abundance of food in the fall. Try these recipes to create dishes right out of your native garden. -
Garden Q&A – Edible native plants for the home garden
Why let the bugs have all the fun?! Let’s feed our families too! Learn the California native plants that look good in your garden and even better on your plate. -
Gardening in Deer Country, Part 3
Deer in urban settings nibbling can to promote even lusher plants that will be full of flowers late into the summer and fall months. However, there are plants that deer will ignore. -
Gardening in Deer Country, Part 2
Oaks are the major summer browse for the deer, with leaf and twigs providing up to 40% of their diet. Learn some protective measures to garden in oak woodlands country. -
Gardening in Deer Country, Part 1
Deer are herbivores, which creates gardening challenges. It is possible to create a beautiful garden despite the deer, but first a gardener has to understand these lovely creatures! -
Fragrant Natives for the Garden
Many native plants are fragrant year-round, but the quality of fragrance depends on the season, and sometimes on the time of day. Create a garden me with an enchanting aroma. -
Growing Clarkias
Clarkias are annual plants that are easy to grow in our gardens. These charismatic flowers bloom at the end of the wildflower season, hence their common name “Farewell-to-Spring." -
The Coastal Native Garden
Gardeners who live on or near the coast are able to grow a variety of plants. However, there are varying degrees of difficulty with beachy soils and temperate climate.
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