Replace Your Lawn Workshops Saturdays in January, 9:30 AM
Happy New Year! Resolve to make a difference in your built environment, starting with your own lawn. Tired of the lawn, maintenance, water bills, and mow-and-blow noise? Embrace the beauty of the region we live in and invite nature back in. Attract birds, butterflies and hummingbirds into your garden. There are many reasons to change your landscape from Boring Lawn to Exciting Native Habitat Garden and we would like to help you do so. Join us for this special four part workshop series including two different design talks in this New Year’s Replace Your Lawn (RYL) with Native Plants Series! January 7, 9:30a-10:30a – Replace Your Lawn RYL I: Kill the grass!
The basic principles of removing a lawn to make way for a fresh new landscape.
January 14, 9:30a-10:30a RYL II – Designing with Native Plants – Hardscaping Considerations
Any designed garden needs some structure and native plant gardens are no exception. Keep in mind building a strong foundation for your new outdoor living space, learn how to get started with your own garden. Speaker: Rob Moore, California Native Landscape Design.
January 21, 9:30a-10:30a RYL III – Designing with Native Plants – Plant Associations
Want to know what native plants work well together in a garden? The kinds of plants that grow together naturally? Learn how to balance your landscape keeping in mind plant associations as well as size, shape, and texture: the necessary concepts to use when grouping plants and creating a design. Speaker: Pat Overby, Landscape Designer. 
January 28, 9:30-10:30a RYL IV – Plant Selection: Garden Beauties and Work-horses
The ABC’s of choosing plants for your garden. Neat, tidy compact plants will be highlighted as foundation plants, and we’ll show you some not-to-be-missed flowering perennials as well!