Plant and Garden Resources
Featured Partner Resource: GardenSoft
The LA Coastal Water Wise Gardening website is a great resource to help you with plant selection for a native or drought-tolerant landscape. The site offers hundreds of pictures and other helpful information on a wide variety of flowers, trees, and plants.
The website allows you to choose and save plants to a favorites list that you can revisit or print out once you are done browsing. The website is a must visit for anyone that is looking for beautiful, water-wise plants. |
Additional Resources |
| BeWaterWise |
| Tree of Life Nursery |
| Water Use Classifications of Landscape Species (WUCOLS) |
| California natives from Theodore Payne Foundation |
| UC Davis Arboretum All-Stars brochure |
Courses and Guides
How-To Guides
- What does “Ocean Friendly” mean?
- Maintenance and Care of Your New Garden
- Installing Plants in Your new Landscape
- Landscaping With Hardscapes
- Choosing the Right Irrigation System
- Soil Preparation
- Create a Landscape Infiltration Basin
- Kill Your Lawn and Haul it away
- Choosing the Right Plants
- Free Designs & Ideas for your Front Yard
- Money Saving Tips for Lawn Removal
- Budgeting for Your new Landscape
- Water Saving Tips
