Randi’s Plant Palettes (PDF from YouTube Design Talk)

Check out Tree of Life's in-house designers favorite plant palettes!
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Replacing Your Lawn With Native Plants

Kill Your Lawn! Here is how.
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The Basic 1-2-3 on Soils for Natives

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Butterfly Gardening

Attracting butterflies to your garden is a rewarding way to foster a healthy population of beneficial insects. Here, we have compiled a list of the best host and nectar sources for attracting California native butterflies.
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Create & Care for a Natural Garden

As native plants become established and the garden starts to function as a whole, rather than a sum of parts, your involvement becomes that of a steward and participant. You will be tending the garden, not maintaining it.
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Inland Gardening

Have you ever used the word ‘only’ in the same sentence as ‘90 degrees’ or found yourself convinced that gardening where you live is a sort of purification process akin to hot yoga? If so, then you are probably an inland gardener.
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