Replace Your Lawn!

Get rid of that expensive water-guzzling, care-intensive lawn, and make way for a gorgeous native landscape!  We are presenting our Replace Your Lawn (RYL) workshop series in a four part installment about the basics of converting your lawn into a beautiful, carefree, sustainable habitat.

These workshops will be held SATURDAYS at 9:30 AM in the latter half of March, beginning March 24, 2012.  This RYL series will include two design talks given by two different designers.  The four parts are:

March 24 – I: Killing the Grass, Jeff Bohn
March 31 – II: Design Elements – Efficiency and Sustainability Through Design, Ecotone Studios
April 7 –     III. Design Elements – Hardscape Considerations, Creations Landscape Design
April 14 –   IV: Plant Selection – Evergreen Natives, Flowering Beauties and Plant Combinations, Mike Evans

All of these workshops are FREE of charge and no reservations are necessary.   Each session lasts about an hour and a half, (depending on questions!).

Saturday, March 24, 2012 – 9:30 AM
Replace Your Lawn I: Kill the Grass

Step one – get rid of it!  This may be more involved than you would expect and the methods to get rid of a lawn are quite varied.  Avoid unnecessary labor and learn several successful methods for lawn removal, depending on you turf type, budget, and timeline. First in our popular four-part series.

Download the handout: Replace Your Lawn: Kill the grass!

Saturday, March 31, 2012 – 9:30 AM
Replace Your Lawn II:  Design Elements – Efficiency and Sustainability through Design
Second in a four-part series about Replacing your Lawn. Now that you have killed your grass, what are supposed to do?  Learn how to set goals and how to plan to achieve them in your new ideal landscape.  Take steps towards creating a sustainable and inviting outdoor living space.  Landscape Architects Aron Nussbaum and Joshua Link from Ecotone Studios will teach us design and sustainability principles to bring balance to your new landscape.  Learn how to get started.

Saturday, April 7, 2011 – 9:30 AM
Replace Your Lawn III: Design Elements – 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: Rama Nayeri, Creations Landscape Design

Saturday, April 14, 2011 – 9:00 AM
Replace Your Lawn IV: Plant Selection – Evergreen Natives, Flowering Beauties and Plant Combinations
After you have determined the look and feel you wish to achieve in your garden, the fun begins – plant selection!  We will present a group of plants we call our Thirty Plants.  These are the “must-haves” for any native California garden.  This selection of thirty plants represents a handsome mix of the most authentic native plants for Southern California gardens.  As we discuss the Thirty Plants, we will expand our knowledge of natives in general, and learn how to chose the right plants for any particular design theme.

Download the handout:
Thirty Basic California Native Plants

DIY Lawn Removal and – Go native!