Plant Native Laurel Canyon
Our mission: to educate about and promote the use of California native plants for sustainable gardening.
Monthly meetings include practical hands-on workshops with Native plant California plant experts from local landscaping design firms, the Theodore Payne Foundation, and the Santa Mountain Fund. Meetings take place on the first Sunday of each month.
Next meeting: Sunday, October 12 @3:00
The Watershed Approach to Hillside Landscaping: A Free Workshop For Native Gardeners of Laurel Canyon and Beyond
It’s officially fall — but for us Canyon native gardeners, it’s really spring! It’s when we are the busiest getting as many native plants into the ground so that they can establish strong roots during the winter rainy season.
Our Sunday October 12th workshop explores a breakthrough paradigm shift for thinking about your property and its grounds — as its own mini-watershed. We say breakthrough because your garden just may design itself around the way rainwater can be slowed, captured, and moved….
Yes, that does involve such ambitious ideas as water storage tanks, rain gardens, rain chains, swales, and slope engineering — and we will certainly go over all of that. But don’t let that scare you — once we understand watershed thinking, we can implement it in numerous ways, on every scale from small to large, and in stages over any time period we choose.
Our presentation will include a slide show of inspirational gardens that rely largely on natural rainfall for irrigation, but that manage not only to look great but to provide enormous benefits, i.e. replenishing our aquifers and supporting our local wildlife.
Curious? Bring your questions, and even some answers if you would like to share your own experience or research.
See you at 3pm on Sunday, June 8th under the oaks on the dome terrace!
Elaine, Sara, and the Plant Native Laurel Canyon Team
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Topics From Previous Meetings:
-Plant Them in Containers! A Free How-To, Hands-On Workshop on the Easiest Way to Establish California Natives Any Time of the Year
Sunday, June 8 @3:00
-Mid-Spring Native Planting Check-in
Sunday, May 5
-Theodore Payne Foundation 2025 Garden Tour
Saturday & Sunday, April 5 & 6
-Spring Sowing Workshop: California Native Plants from Seeds with Theodore Payne Seed Expert Genevieve Arnold
Sunday, March 2 at 3:00
-A Note to Our Plant Native Laurel Canyon Community re: Next Meeting
Sunday, February 2 at 3:00
-A Group Field Trip to Theodore Payne Foundation’s Fall Plant Sale- Kickstart Your Native Garden!
Saturday, November 2 at 12:30 PM
-A Mini-Tour of Three Inspiring Mid-City Native Gardens, by Plant Native Laurel Canyon
Sunday, October 13 at 3:00 PM
-Add California Native Plants to Your Yard! A Hands-On Workshop
Sunday, September 8 at 3:00 PM
-Fruit Trees + California Native Plants: A Free Workshop with Orchard Expert Joanna Glovinsky
Sunday, July 7 Time at 3:00 PM
-Host a thousand creatures in your Laurel Canyon yard: A photographic presentation by wildlife expert Scott Logan- Sunday,
October 15, 2023
-Native Garden Planning Workshop In Laurel Canyon
Sunday, September 3, 2023
-Native Plant Giveaway In Laurel Canyon
Sunday August 6, 2023
-A Private Tour of Gottlieb Native Garden in Coldwater Canyon for Our PNLC Group
Sunday July 2, 2023
-Spread the Word: How to Talk to Your Neighbors About Gardening with California Native Plants
Sunday June 4 , 2023
-Help Save Monarch Butterflies - Come to a :Milkweed Seed-Sowing Workshop with Plant Native Laurel Canyon! Sunday
April 30, 2023
-Preventing Hillside Erosion
Sunday March 26, 2023
-Propagating Plants
Sunday February 5, 2023
-New Year Native Planting Update
Sunday January 8, 2023
-We are taking a Field Trip to Theodore Payne Foundation
Friday November 4, 2022
-Tips to get inspired and learn about planting native California plants! Sunday October 2nd, 2022
-"What to plant Where"
Sunday August 7th 2022:
-Native Milkweed Seed Event a Success!
Sunday June 5th, 2022
For more info on milkweed plants.
