G3 Green Gardens Group

Urbanite is another name for harvested old concrete; and G3 designers are pressed to include urbanite in all public projects so its acceptance as a beautiful recycled building material and permeable paving becomes universal. Urbanite is being used in both the Manhattan Beach Strand OFG and the Malibu Bluffs Park OFG in different ways.  The Manhattan [...]

Many “native” plant advocates propose that soil amendment, even biological community amendment, is not necessary when planting “native” plants in “native” soils.  For many reasons, G3 has always advocated testing the soil for biological activity and then determining a remediation strategy based on the type of plants intended for the site and the actual biological [...]

G3′s design for the hillside Ocean Friendly Demonstration Garden at the Manhattan Beach Strand in Manhattan Beach, CA (corner of Manhattan Beach Blvd. and THE OCEAN!) is taking shape as local boulders and recycled concrete (provided by Manhattan Beach Public Works) begin to form the mini-basins that dot the landscape to grab rainwater as a [...]

Construction began at the Manhattan Beach Strand Ocean Friendly Demonstration Garden with two parts of the project under way at the same time.  Alison Terry, Licensed Landscape Architect, and G3 Certified Professional 2009 worked with the winning installation bidder, Stout Design:Build (G3 Certified Professional 2010), to lay out the small basins that will be placed [...]

Join us the evening of August 15th for a community review of G3′s preliminary design for the Ocean Friendly Demonstration Garden slated for the Manhattan Beach Strand.  This garden is being built as part of the West Basin MWD/Surfrider Foundation grant, and is one of ten gardens G3 is designing under the team leadership of [...]