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Properly designed native gardens look like a formal park or
clean, weed free, native ecosystem. This has been very consistent
whether the garden, restoration, or landscape is in Mojave, Los
Angeles, San Diego, Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, the Sierras ,
the Bay area and other areas of California.
The hummingbirds, butterflies, and other small wildlife will love your garden! A native garden is atwitter with the sound of hummingbirds, birds, butterflies and other native insects. This is astounding to people who have a conventional 'hummingbird' garden. A few drunk hummingbirds at a feeder do not make a hummingbird garden. Thirty or so buzzing all over your landscape, telling you off for picking flowers, now that's a hummingbird garden!
Native plants bring native wildlife. Butterflies and birds instead of rats and cockroaches. Thrashers, Flickers, and Bluebirds instead of English Sparrows and Starlings.
Drive the old guy in the golf cart that patrols the neighborhood crazy.
Rip out that lawn no human uses. Make the dogs go somewhere else. Do it
with style so the neighbors notice and maybe come help you. A pink sun
hat, pink shoes and pink shorts, and girls see if you can top the guys
with a even different outfit.
Instead of paying money to go to the gym, then paying someone to mow
the lawn, save money, water, resources and do it yourself. Wave to the
neighbors as they gawk.
Take it to dirt and put a pink flamingo out there until you start planting.
Help
yourself design a native landscape or garden.
If you break the garden into small pieces. Each piece a different
amount of sun, or the soil different, or the watering different. If you
landscaping is done and you only need to put a few natives in a corner,
run mynativeplants.com on that section. If you have a section that 100X100
feet and the sun, watering, and soil are all the same, then input once
for the whole section and make your landscape flow around a path, garden
bench a corpse of trees or a few logs and boulders. Your yard doesn't
have to look like your neighbors. California law says you can use native plants, even in your HOA (AB-1061).
Use the search bar at the bottom of most of our pages, and type in
whatever is your interest. Native landscaping, bees, birds,
hummingbirds and all sorts of other things. We've tried to make a page
for almost anything to do with native plants, native landscaping or
native gardens.
