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With our blooming demonstration and tour gardens center stage, we love hearing clients and tour attendees singing the praises of vibrantly fragrant blossoms throughout the spring! Like most stars, these beauties have a highly skilled entourage that keeps them looking their best, like the irrigation timers that make sure they get just the right amount of water at just the right time. We owe a very special thanks to one of these unsung heroes. ET Water donated new, highly effective weather-based controllers for the Santa Monica demonstration gardens we maintain. While they may be hard to see, they make what you see that much more lovely! Thank you, ET Water!
Sincerely,
Cassy and Kirk Aoyagi
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Theodore Payne Foundation Garden Tour
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Pacific Palisades Garden Tour
California Native Plant Society Symposium
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WHAT TO EXPECT+
Planting and weeding!
TEAM UPDATE+
Theodore Payne Foundation Gala
UPCOMING EVENTS+
Saturday & Sunday, April 9 – 10:
Theodore Payne Native Garden Tour
Thursday, April 14:
Landscaping to LEED projects, Municipal Green Building Conference
Sunday, April 17:
Pacific Palisades Annual Garden Tour
Sunday, April 17 – May15:
Pasadena Showcase House
Saturday, April 23:
California Native Plant Week Symposium
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TEAM UPDATE+
Cassy Aoyagi, Theodore Payne Foundation Executive Director Lynette Kampe with Los Angles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian celebrating Theodore Payne Foundation’s 50th Anniversary at the Theodore Payne Foundation Gala.
FormLA maintenance teams installed new irrigation timers, donated by ET WATER, at City of Santa Monica demonstration gardens.
A FormLA Container Garden of Palms decorates the Wagon Wheel School’s Savanah Nights Fundraiser at the Wilshire Country Club.
About FormLA Landscaping+
FormLA® Landscaping designs, builds and maintains custom sustainable landscapes that beautifully complement the distinct and varied architecture of Los Angeles County. See our expanding Portfolio.
CONTACT FORMLA+
Cassy and Kirk Aoyagi, Principals: Cassy@formlainc.com
Mark Britten, Production Manager: Mark@formlainc.com
John Avakian, Bookkeeping: John@formlainc.com
Cara Barnard, Horticultural Care Technician: Cara@formlainc.com
LATEST NEWS+
Garden Profile: Bettijane Levine, Arroyo Magazine. “[The] white brick mini-villa — with its tall welcoming windows and elegant sheltered door — looks like it might be a centuries-old transplant from some nobleman’s estate in Southern France … the lawn was removed and replaced with a sumptuous stylized array of plantings traversed by meandering, free-form flagstone paths surrounded by gravel.” Read
Garden Portfolios: The Theodore Payne Foundation Native Garden Tour features three properties designed, built and maintained by FormLA Landscaping. Get a sneak peek of the Markota’s Eagle Rock Tudor, the Rosen’s Brentwood green-build, and the Veloz’ Glendale California Contemporary.
The first 5 readers to identify the sustainable strategies that keep the Veloz and Rosen spas cleaner, safer and healthier than their traditional counterparts will win tickets to the tour. Win
Wet to Dry: What’s 4×4 with beautiful spikey flowers all over? Both Lupine and Mexican sage will answer the riddle, but only Lupine does it with ridiculously little water. While the flowers may look similar enough to you and me, Mission Blue Butterflies seeking a honeymoon location head strait for California native Lupine. More
WHAT TO EXPECT+
FormLA Teams will be: Ensuring client gardens thrive through 9-day water ban in Pasadena imposed as MWD improves infrastructure March 18-27. We will also follow water restriction guidelines issued by the surrounding communities.
Conserving water and soil moisture in outdoor water ban communities and beyond. Here are a few of our strategies:
- Replenishing mulch to conserve water and increase organic matter
- Increasing mower heights to reduce evaporation from lawns
- Changing batteries on irrigation timers
- Pushing the clocks forward on irrigation and lighting timers
- Pruning Mediterreneans
Helping you get the most out of Spring:
- Planning spring vegetable gardens to match your meal interests
- Identifying and cut flowers and foliage to brighten indoor areas
- Placing or fixing outdoor lighting to ensure your outdoor space is safe and optimally charming for spring and summer entertaining
phone 818.353.7030 • 310.979.9002 • fax 818.353.6837 • www.formlainc.com
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