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VALUED CUSTOMERS & FRIENDS+

Thank you to the Powes, Moores, City of Sierra Madre, and Santa Monica Conservancy for opening your gardens this week! You inspire us, and we know you inspire LA too!

We are also incredibly grateful to our wonderful team for bringing it this month, working late nights and weekends to be sure we could bring our very best to LA, via tours and in gardens throughout LA.

This is always a fun time of year – hope to see you out there in the blooms this weekend!

Sincerely,
Cassy and Kirk

LATEST NEWS+

It’s showtime, LA! While natives are lush and lovely year round, everyone is on in April.
 
 
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LA Times. By Lisa Boone:  DiAnna Moore used to be known as the Rose Lady. “I had a carpet of red roses in my front yard,” Moore says of her Northridge garden. “We tried to keep them alive, along with our Bermuda grass.” Read More
 

By FormLA Staff: Whether it’s your first Native Plant Garden Tour or your fifteenth, these 5 tips will help ensure you make the most of your tour time. Read More
 
 

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Can Plant Trees for Privacy, Shade and More

Realtor.com. By Jennifer Geddes: What are the best trees for privacy, shade, and your yard in general? Such questions are well worth asking, since not all flora are created equal…some trees give and give—keeping you cool under the hot sun, shielding you from nosy neighbors, bearing fruit, and sprouting flowers! Read More
 
 
 
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Can Trees Sing?

By Cassy Aoyagi: Absolutely! Like native plants, California native trees serve as full-service bed and breakfasts for our native song birds.  Here is how to attract your favorite songs. Hear More
 
 
 

SUSTAINABLE TIPS+

Keep your eyes peeled, and your nostrils, ears and hearts open! Everything is blooming!

 

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Blooming Now

Think everything in LA is Blooming Now? Well, why, yes! Yes, it is!

 
 
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Sustain Your Garden

We are taking steps to conserve water and preserve soil moisture while ensuring all your friends get what they need to be lush and lovely. Check our Summer Maintenance Checklist for low water year tips.

 

 

April 2018

LATEST NEWS+

See It!
Plant Trees!
Can Trees Sing?

UPCOMING EVENTS+

Native Plant Garden Tour
Municipal Greenbuilding Expo

SUSTAINABLE TIPS+

Blooming Now
Sustaining Your Garden

TEAM UPDATE+

Congratulations Eric!
Fire-Wise Tour
Rosemont Tour

UPCOMING EVENTS+

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14-15: Native Plant Garden Tour

19: Municipal Greenbuilding Expo

See More Events

 

 

TEAM UPDATE+

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Congratulations Eric Crow!

Congratulations FormLA Landscape Architect Eric Crow who had the pleasure of sharing one of his lovely designs on tour the same day another ran in the Times. Not bad for a day’s work!

 

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Fire-Wise Garden Tour

Mountains Restoration Trust and Theodore Payne Foundation showcased Jo Powe’s lovely fire-wise garden, where every native tree and wildflower you can imagine put on a show! See MRT

 

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Rosemont Preserve Tour

Cassy Aoyagi toured the Rosemont Preserve, including an area recently restored to mitigate fire and slide risk, with the Arroyos and Foothills conservancy. See Rosemont

 

 

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