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, as well as food gardens.
• Providing designs from simple planting suggestions to meet aesthetic, philosophical and space use goals --  to complex landscape plans for a complete overhaul.
• Serving the Northeast Los Angeles area and surrounding neighborhoods, including the 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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Certified California Native Plant Landscaper​

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

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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

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

Native plants are "Better for Birds"
...a study on bird-fruit interactions published recently in Biological Conservation shows that, even when exotic fruits are more abundant, “birds usually prefer and seek out native fruits,” says lead author Amanda Gallinat, a postdoctoral researcher at Utah State University. In most cases, she adds, native berries contain more of the fats, carbohydrates and nutrients that birds need to survive the cold months. “Invasive fruits are usually nutrient poor,” Gallinat says.

Read the full article: www.nwf.org/Home/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2021/Feb-Mar/Gardening/Native-Berries
Read the research study article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320719314946

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