Replace Your Lawn!

Back by popular demand, we are presenting our Replace Your Lawn (RYL) workshop series in a special four part installment about the basics of converting your ecologically taxing and expensive lawn into a beautiful, carefree, sustainable habitat. 

These workshops will be held FRIDAYS at 9 AM in the month of September.  This months’ RYL series is unique because we will hold two sessions on plant selection in preparation for Fall planting season.

All of these workshops are FREE of charge and each session lasts about an hour and a half, (depending on questions!).  Hopefully you will be able to attend each of the sessions at least once.  No reservations are required.

Friday, September 9, 9:00 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!

Friday, September 16, 2011 – 9:00 AM
Replace Your Lawn II:  Creating and Caring for Your Native Garden
Second in a four-part series about Replacing your Lawn. Now that you have killed your grass, what are supposed to do?  Mike Evans will share from our booklet, “Creating and Caring for your Native Garden”, that you can download here.  Learn how to create a thriving native garden.

Friday, September 23, 2011 – 9:00 AM
Replace Your Lawn III: Plant Selection – Foundation Plants
Learn about the backbone of every native garden: neat, evergreen and carefree foundation plants.  While California’s flora offers a wide variety of flowering perennials to choose from, be sure to use plenty of hearty evergreen woody shrubs to provide an attractive backdrop to showcase your flowers as well as to keep your native landscape looking full, lush and neat.

Friday, September 30, 2011 – 9:00 AM
Replace Your Lawn IV: Plant Selection – Flowering Perennials
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

Get ready for Planting Season this October.  The first Fall Saturday we will be open again is October 1, 2011.  We have an excellent speaker series this October as well as some soon-to-be announced very cool news!  We hope you join us – Go native!