Certified California Native Plant Landscaper, with Wildfire Defense Certificate for Landscape Professionals​

through a partnership program of the Theodore Payne Foundation, the California Native Plant Society, the US Green Building Council Los Angeles, CalFire, and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.

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Fire-Wise Landscaping + California Native Plants
"Fire-wise landscapes created with California native plants can help protect homes in high-risk fire areas while providing a variety of ecological benefits. With strategic design, careful plant selection, and proper maintenance, you can have an evergreen, drought tolerant, and fire-wise garden." -- Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers & Native Plants

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The Mindful Gardener provides landscape design with the option of landscape contractor referrals for installation bids. 

• Specializing in residential designs with California native and drought tolerant plants, fire-wise home landscaping, and food gardens.
• Providing designs from comprehensive plant lists to meet aesthetic, philosophical and space-use goals --  to full landscape plans for a complete overhaul.
• Serving the Northeast Los Angeles area, the San Fernando Valley and foothill communities. Don't hesitate to ask if you are outside this area. 
• Helping create a vision, and/or create a concrete plan from your existing vision.  
• Install it yourself or ask for a referral for an installer;
  manifest your vision all at once or in stages. 

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​​If you have lawn, consider applying for a $2-5 turf per square foot removal rebate from your water district. Information and applications are available here:
​SoCal Water$mart

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Why Use California Native Plants?
Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current land management practices have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us. Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue our current standard of living on Planet Earth. The good news is that none of this is inevitable. Doug Tallamy discussed simple steps that each of us can and must take to reverse declining biodiversity and will explain why we, ourselves, are nature’s best hope. -- California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley chapter. ​Watch here: Nature’s Best Hope, A talk by Doug Tallamy 11/14/2020

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