G3 Green Gardens Group

As many of the California native chaparral plants catch a siesta during the hot summer months, the edibles at Lawndale Library Ocean Friendly Garden burst forth with luscious fruit and luxuriant foliage, demonstrating that a well-designed California native garden can be visually stimulating all year long.  This Ocean Friendly Garden was installed through a series [...]

An Ocean Friendly Garden, like this one at Lawndale Library gets cooler as temperatures rise.  Although the spring wildflowers mostly have finished blooming, the Erigeron glauca ‘Cape Sebastian’ (beach daisy) is going strong.   Both Encelia californica (coast sunflower) and Epilobium (California fuchsia) are moving around the garden, seeding freely and setting up shop in [...]

What a difference a year makes! Teen Friends of Lawndale Library receive commendations from the City Council and community for their OFG.

Summer is celebrated daily in the Lawndale Library Ocean Friendly Garden.  Five months after completion of this G3 Design Project, this garden finally is ready to be photographed and documented. Teen Friends of the Library already are harvesting and eating produce from their vegetable garden. Does anyone remember what it looked like just a few [...]

Students, faculty, and members of the community joined G3 for the Lawndale Library Site Assessment Hands on Workshop (HOW) to determine the water use of the existing landscape (approximately 50,000 gallons per year), the amount of runoff from the nearby Community Center building (approximately 1,600 gallons per inch of rain), and the health of the [...]