So you've decided to remove your lawn and replace it with drought resistant landscaping but don't have the budget to hire big guns? Christopher McKinnon and Patricia Karasick will share how they accomplished it! Tips on wading through the city bureaucracy, where to go for free stuff and really everything you need to know to do it yourself!
A how-to visual presentation by do-it-yourself Mar Vista homeowners on how they removed their front and back grass lawns and replaced it with herbs, vegetables, rocks, gravel, decomposed granite and drought tolerant, California native plants while integrating existing tropicals and other plants. A work in progress. They will cover the ups and downs, successes and failures, tools, sources, time, costs and water savings. The garden is also certified as a Natural Wildlife Habitat.
This house was part of last April’s Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase and as a result was invited to be part of a presentation to the Los Angeles Board of Public Works Commission on how to save precious water and point out the citywide need to retrain gardeners to maintain yards that have no grass.
This is a great chance to get neighbor to neighbor help on your project!
I would love to find out how they did this. Did I miss the presentation?
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