So you’ve torn out your lawn and created a native plant garden to conserve water and restore habitat for struggling birds and insects. “You can easily see the pernicious weeds now because they’re green when everything else is brown.”Lifestyle 20 California native plants that will actually look gorgeous this summer Even California native plants can dry out in the summer. A photograph from 1992 shows the barren yard compared to now with lush native plants and stairs leading up and down the terraced yard. Bruce Schwartz has immersed himself in a lush growth of California native plants at his Eagle Rock house. A California polypody in Bruce Schwartz’s native plants garden will go dormant for the summer, waiting for fall rain.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 14, 2022 00:45 UTC