Planting a Native Garden in Los Angeles

After years of researching and working on converting my yard to California native, this is the best video I’ve seen! An amazing resource packed with great information.

Such an inspiration. Great job! Can you imagine if the entire Los Angeles region converted their yards to native plants?

Such a Fantastic video! A good guide for everyone!

Its been two years! Please give us soooommmmmmething 😮‍💨

This is by far the best video out there about Southern California native plant gardening, from planting site, to selecting plants, to weed suppression, to installation, to watering and mulching. As a writer for the Ventura Botanical Gardens I applaud your fellas work, bravo!

thank you so much so much helpful info. wow thank you a million times!

We plan on adding a video showing the insects, birds and other creatures living in our small native garden since the establishment of this habitat. Watch for it in 2021.

Wow, the native plants make that architecturally simplistic house into a beauty !!!!! They go perfectly together. Just a fabulous job !!!!

An update tour would be good to see

You guys Made a great job,planning It,More people should be like that

very good advice . never heard of sun seeker

I love this! I always talk about how important it is to plant native plants especially since california is constantly in a drought and these native plants can handle it.

I love how you showed the steps and named the plants! So very helpful and inspirational. I hope they have a program like this in Northern California.

What a huge improvement and great job you folks did! I create these California native gardens all year round in the Riverside-inland empire area. I really wish more people were interested in California native plants like you are. They are so enjoyable and rewarding in the landscape.

Thank you so much for posting this. It's one thing to read about native gardens, it's another to see the process from start to finish!

My husband is a biology professor and for years we lived in a little house quite close to the earth. No heat, no air conditioner, just us and the lizards, snakes, coyotes, bobcats, an occasional fox, and over 100 bird sp on the yard list. But we moved to suburbia, to a house abutting a hillside covered in coastal sage scrub plants and lots of non natives. So far in our part of the hill side we have planted Desert Willow, Palo Verde, a Elderberry, many ceanothus, toyon sp., coyote bush, coffee berry, black sage, white sage, and a small encelia farinosa from the hillside volunteered to grow with us. #1

I enjoy how your native garden considers varieties and actual nativity of plants. Too many gardeners out there think "native gardening" involves letting native and non-native weeds grow. Mostly because I believe they assume that 1.) Native gardens are less maintenance if not completely hands-off, and 2.) All flowers benefit all native pollinators. I have 3 of these types in my neighborhood alone, and their yards are a hot mess under the guise of "for the environment" and "natives not lawns."

love this

VERY helpful video!! I'm getting tired of my lawn and I'm ready to bring some California plants to my home. Thanks for helping me out with the pre-planning work!

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