G3 Green Gardens Group

Cutting curbs in regular neighborhoods is all well and good in theory, but the day of judgement comes when it finally rains!  If everyone on this street cut their curbs and allowed dry weather runoff and stormwater into their parkway to water trees and other native plants, that dirty water would never reach the ocean.  [...]

G3 Core Concepts graduate, John Burke (aka LAJohnny – LA stands for Landscape Architect, not Los Angeles), wrote a great article for the Ventura Breeze on the curb cutting event held at Dan Long’s house in Ventura.  The article is a really good synopsis of the importance of Rain Gardens and Curb Cuts as things [...]

Students aren’t stuck inside on beautiful fall days like today at North Carolina State University because professors like Andy Fox of NCSU’s College of Design, are driving innovative Low Impact Design on campus. According to Professor Fox, recent polling of incoming students indicates that 66% point to sustainable practices on campus as an important factor [...]

At the ARCSA (American Rainwater Capture Systems Association) Annual Technical Conference the philosophical policy discussion rages on about whether rainwater should be considered stormwater, or infiltration and passive rainwater capture should be considered as valuable as active harvesting for use.  This will be an ongoing debate for some time, since many of ARCSA’s sponsors and [...]

G3 Certified Professionals are trained to design landscapes with water budgets that do not exceed the non-potable water available to be captured on site and utilized before the requirement of supplemental potable irrigation.  If you think about it, this is a profoundly sensible way to design landscapes, and pretty much assures the garden always will [...]