You know it when you see it, and you’ve tried to justify it’s “beauty” because your clients ask for it and the nurseries continue to carry it. It’s ugly because it is a piece of the destructive puzzle that is the OLD NORM of California gardening. There will be a day when designers (including landscape [...]
The Invasive California Garden Must Be Stopped
Posted on 05. Aug, 2012 by pamela in Build Habitat, Environment 911, G3 Blog, Nature Lessons, Plants, Resources, Watershed Notes
Plant List For City of Pasadena’s First Public Sponge Garden
Posted on 03. May, 2012 by pamela in City of Pasadena, G3 Blog, G3 Community, G3 Design Studio, G3 Partners, Los Angeles/South Bay, Pasadena Sponge Garden, Plants, Rain Gardens, Resources, Watershed Notes
It all started in August 2011, when the Pasadena Planning Dept.’s Cultural Arts Division teamed up with Pasadena Power & Water and the Public Works Dept. to consider building a garden through community participation. Nancy Long from Power & Water called G3 to meet a site that was going to host a public art installation, [...]
Alameda Gets A Smart Landscape Without Stupa Tenuissima
Posted on 14. Nov, 2011 by pamela in Build Habitat, Environment 911, G3 Blog, G3 Community, Nature Lessons, Plants, Resources, San Francisco Bay Area, Watershed Notes
What a joy to see that, after two years of visiting Alameda (near Oakland, CA), Cagwin & Dorward has finally gotten the green light to make the parkways truly Bay Friendly by removing the Nassella tenuissima, or as we call it, STUPA. The next question is, “Where is that toxic weed going to be dumped?” [...]
The Truth About Herbicides: Soil Party Killer!
Posted on 15. Aug, 2011 by pamela in Compost Tea, Environment 911, G3 Blog, Living Soil, Nature Lessons, Plants, Resources, Watershed Notes
Data on various herbicides’ ill effects on soil and plants keeps trickling in. G3 promotes the use of sheet mulching or hand removal for taking out your turf — It’s not hard to do!. Check out our EVENTS CALENDAR to find upcoming Hands on Workshops (HOWs) to learn how to remove your front yard without herbicides [...]
Tree of Life Hosts South Orange County Ocean Friendly Gardens Program Launch
Posted on 20. Feb, 2011 by pamela in G3 Blog, G3 Education, G3 In The News, G3 Media, Homeowner, Orange County, Plants, Resources, Speaker Series, Surfrider Foundation, Surfrider's Ocean Friendly Gardens, Video
Another weekend, another talk in a barn! Tree of Life Nursery hosted Surfrider Foundation’s South Orange County Chapter’s Ocean Friendly Gardens Program launch. http://sanjuancapistrano.patch.com/articles/make-your-garden-ocean-friendly-by-removing-your-front-lawn The rain abated and the sun peeked out as 25 hardy souls braved plummeting temps to gather in the Tree of Life barn for a one-hour OFG Mini-Basics Class followed by [...]
