Non-native plants from Mediterranean climates like Australia are getting love from even wholesale California native plant growers for drought-tolerant landscapes in SoCal.
Cardboard is crucial for sheet mulching to kill a lawn, but critics say there's no science proving it works. All you really need, they say, is lots of wood chips.
If you've removed your lawn and want native plants in your new landscape, check out these ground covers recommended by pros, plus a list of October plant events.
Take a Haunted Hayride. Attend a hands-on citrus tree workshop. Listen to Mortified storytellers. Join Lucha VaVOOM in celebrating luchador and queer icon Cassandro.