Who says kids need a yard? Stop by this garden for a special guest presentation by TreePeople and learn about their Community Sustainability Workshops. This DIY garden is only a year in the making. It is a certified wildlife habitat filled with edible features, climate appropriate plants and filled with love!
The inspiration was their children. People say they need grass to play on, but they spent all their time in the flower beds, so why not make the whole yard a big flower garden? And that combined with the bigger gift of giving them a world where water is valued…it seemed like a no-brainer.
They moved in to their home in 1997 and slowly transformed ugly beds into things they thought were pretty and that didn’t use much water. It was very much a self-taught thing – going with a sense of what felt right. Then in their work at TreePeople and at the G3 seminars, they learned that a really pretty garden is beautiful on the inside. Armed with only a tiny bit of knowledge, they decided to rip up their yard and received the DWP Cash for Grass incentive in February of 2010.
Thought has been put into water capture with both a barrel a berm. They water by hand…as needed. A favorite thing is the humming bird sage and the tree in their front yard. Both have stories attached to them that make them precious. The owners plant things that are pretty and require little work. They look great and require basically nothing from them. What could be better? The kids feel like they have their very own forest and think the transformation is magical!
This garden is a great opportunity to get DIY advice! There will be a lemonade stand and Tree People will also be there with information about their Sustainable Solutions programs, with step-by-step newsletters so you can do this too!
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