2010 News and Events from Tree of Life Nursery

Replace Your Lawn Four Part Series

Replace Your Lawn!

Back by popular demand, we are presenting our RYL workshop series in a special four part installment about the basics of converting your ecologically taxing and expensive lawn into a beautiful, carefree, sustainable habitat. The Replace Your Lawn workshops will run on Saturdays in February at 10 AM.

All of these workshops are FREE of charge and each session lasts about an hour and a half, (depending on questions!). Hopefully you will be able to attend each of the sessions at least once. No reservations are required.

Replace Your Lawn I: Kill Your Grass! - February 6, 10:00 AM

Replace Your Lawn II: Creating and Caring Your Native Garden - February 13, 10:00 AM

Replace Your Lawn III: Design Elements - February 20, 10:00 AM

Replace Your Lawn IV: Plant Selection, Thirty Plants - February 27, 10:00 AM

Get Detailed Descriptions and Handouts to Download by clicking on full story, here.

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Two 2009 Books

Book Signing this Saturday!

SoCal Cover Meet Author Susan Van Atta, author of The Southern California Native Flower Garden: A Guide to Size, Bloom, Foliage, Color and Texture here at Tree of Life Nursery for a book signing and talk!

Saturday, January 30 - 10 am - 11 am

Two books to check out from 2009:
These books came out last year and both advocate the use of native or more naturalistic plants.

The Southern California Native Flower Garden: A Guide to Size, Bloom, Foliage, Color and Texture,
by Susan Van Atta, Published by Gibbs-Smith

The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn,
by John Greenlee, Published by Timber Press

Steals and Deals

Steals, Deals, and Featured Plants

We are going to post information about Steals and Deals (and featured plants) from the nursery every week on our Twitter and Facebook pages. Be a fan of our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter… you’ll get regular, fun updates about nursery news, as well as weekly highlighted plants on Wednesdays.

Four Inch Wildflowers Available and on Sale!

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This week, we want to tell you about our great deal on 4-inch Wildflowers. Some are on sale for three 4-inch wildflowers for $5.00. More details on Facebook. Now is the time to plant wildflowers and with this kind of pricing, its a great time to buy them!

Stay tuned for next week’s featured plant, you won’t want to miss it.

Get Inspired this Year

Go Outside and Play

Sycamore moon As professionals involved in environmental horticulture, we are responsible for the outdoor places people see and experience. We make gardens. We are united as members of a worldwide guild whose role in society is to make life better for all because we design and tend planted areas for everyone. Wherever I travel, I try to connect with nursery professionals and native plant people. In every instance, I have found we share a common motivator - creating beauty through the science, craft, and art of growing plants.

"He that plants trees, loves others beside himself." Dr. Thomas Fuller, British physician (1654-1734)

Do you share a passion for native plants and naturalistic plantings? Do you believe, as we do, that in our encounters with nature, we find inspiration and healing?

A true California garden incorporates native plants into naturalistic design, and brings "nature," or at least a miniature representation, into the built environment. Making it happen is a high calling, requiring that we seek inspiration. We need models on which to base our own creations.

We need to go outside.

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