Fire-resilient Landscapes: Creating Beautiful Gardens for Defensible Space
November 5, 2021
Fire-resilient Landscapes: Creating Beautiful Gardens for Defensible Space
Category: California Native Plants
Milkweed & Monarchs: How You Made a Difference
October 26, 2021
We’re doing it! The numbers are in. In 2021, Tree of Life customers took home and planted around 8,000 native milkweed plants consisting of three species. Other vendors were involved as well. Rogers Gardens in Newport Beach reports sales of around 4,000 plants.
Hummingbird Bundles
September 3, 2021
Hummingbird Bundles at Tree of Life September 3rd, 2021. 6 plants for $36 guaranteed to attract hummingbirds to your garden.
Plants of the Channel Islands
August 16, 2021
Kevin Alison introduces you to the unique species of California’s Channel Islands. Kevin also tells the natural history of these plants, some interesting evolutionary adaptations, and how these plants can be used in the natural garden.
Inland Gardening
August 6, 2021
Have you ever used the word ‘only’ in the same sentence as ‘90 degrees’ or found yourself convinced that gardening where you live is a sort of purification process akin to hot yoga? If so, then you are probably an inland gardener.
Native Plants for Hummingbirds
July 28, 2021
Native plants are favorites for hummingbirds. The plants listed here are sure to bring these graceful creatures to your garden.
Intermediate Gardening
July 28, 2021
Assuming you don’t spend more than a couple of days at a time near 100 in the summer but also don’t describe your general weather as having a coastal influence you probably fit into this intermediate category. In other words you aren’t constantly cool but you aren’t altogether melting either. Below is a condensed list of native plants that will do well in your region.
The California Garden
July 28, 2021
The California garden is tended nature in miniature. It’s not about the plants. It’s about generosity. It’s about giving back to the land and giving oneself the pleasure and satisfaction of loving, getting involved, and tending a garden modeled after the natural beauty of the region.
Attracting Songbirds to Your Garden
July 28, 2021
As you fill your garden with California native plants you will begin to hear the vibrant conversations of towhees, wrens, finches, warblers and sparrows, just to name a few!