The Dry Garden: Look to the Sonoran
Posted on | August 25, 2009 | No Comments
Baja fairy duster. Photo: Christine Cotter / Los Angeles Times
THE CLASSIC trees of California are big. Redwoods. Monterey pines. Valley oaks. So for those of us who live in cities but want a California native garden, where’s the giant sequoia supposed to fit? My vote would be to tear down the house, but San Juan Capistrano nurseryman Mike Evans has a different idea. The man who for two decades has been a pillar of the native gardening community thinks that many Southern Californian homes with small gardens can be better off with exotic trees. Evans, co-founder of the Tree of Life Nursery, is increasingly pointing his customers toward the leguminous trees of Mexico, Arizona and Texas … To continue reading the latest from the Los Angeles Times Dry Garden column, click here.
Rethink your green
Posted on | August 25, 2009 | No Comments
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.
The governor writes
Posted on | August 24, 2009 | No Comments
Questioned on August 6 about his endorsement of the Cadiz, Inc groundwater project proposed for the Mojave Desert, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today replied.
Click here for the governor’s explanation of his endorsement of the controversial project
Albuquerque vs Vegas, gallon per gallon
Posted on | August 24, 2009 | No Comments
80 … 161 … 107 … 248
Which city uses how much water per day, and how? To find out, click here
The week that was, 8/17-23/2009
Posted on | August 23, 2009 | No Comments
Jacobs recommends everyone in Seattle practice at least one water sport. — Seattle Sketcher, Seattle Times
“I will not sign anything that does not have above-the-ground and below-the-ground water storage.” Arnold Schwarzenegger demanding new dams from any legislation to reform state water policy, AP
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