Rethink your green
GRAPHICS tell the story. The team from CalArts that produced this garden map of Greater Los Angeles are finalists in the Inaugural Aspen Design Challenge to Design Water’s Future. To the left, there is Greater Los Angeles as it is now, with the graphic showing 60% of its vegetation given over to water-intensive lawn. To the right are the zones for the region’s drought-tolerant native vegetation. Posting compliments of Craig Matsuda at SoCal Minds. For Emily Green in the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times on the beauty of brown, red, gold … anything but green, click here.…
Albuquerque vs Vegas, gallon per gallon
80 … 161 … 107 … 248 …
Goodbye to all that
GOT grass but don’t want it? Or the mowers? Or the blowers? Click here for a Los Angeles Times piece on how to get rid of it.
LAT Home editor Craig Nakano links to it this week after spotting a Wall Street Journal “love note to Scotts Miracle-Gro.“
Finally, with apologies for the self-promotion, there is also a link to the Dry Garden column, which will pick up next week with a visit to Tree of Life Nursery in San Juan Capistrano. Links will come up when the Times publishes it.…
Mark your calendar
THERE is one more week to see the Ocean and Surf Photography of Brown W. Cannon III at Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens in San Clemente. Or click here for a full calendar of dry garden events, including a special class in Arts and Science for Kids at the Theodore Payne Foundation, Monday morning garden chats at the Buena Vista Audubon Nature Center, behind-the-scene tours at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, LADWP sprinkler clinics and sky gazing in Huntington Beach. …
Beyond green
FROM TODAY’s Los Angeles Times op-ed pages:
YOU KNOW it’s the silly season when a member of the Los Angeles City Council weighs in on the importance of green lawns during a drought, as the 12th District’s Greig Smith did several weeks ago. Yet the council member’s motion, which sought to reduce watering times but increase days of the week when watering could be done, exemplifies the frustration of homeowners across Southern California. “For more than a decade, we have had a policy of greening, not browning Los Angeles,” Smith said.
It’s poignant, this bid to find a water-savvy way to keep Los Angeles green. It cuts straight to the heart of the problem with the way we garden. It’s color. We, in common with Smith, have been taught that green is good and brown is bad. In fact, the opposite is true. …
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