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Ground cover plants for Los Angeles gardens

Sun Drops are another ground cover plant great for Los Angeles gardens Living ground cover is a catch-all phrase for a lot of low growing plants grown together to literally cover the ground. In most...

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Plant profiles: Drought-tolerant plants: Verbena rigida

  Verbena rigida is perfect for the informal landscape (Photo by Jane Gates) Verbena rigida (Rigid Verbena, Sandpaper Verbena or Tuberous Vervain) This is a colorful groundcover plant that blooms in...

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Drought-Tolerant Plants of the Southern California Chaparral

Some of the extremely drought-tolerant plants in the California chaparral can be as showy as the fanciest imported garden plants when in flower. Here are some pictures of some of the lovely flowering...

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Save your garden in the California drought!

Use pavers in patterns to form a pathway in a useful area that needs no water in a California drought landscape. How to grow a spectacular garden despite the California drought Changing weather...

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Color your garden with drought-tolerant succulents

Succulents can add color with leaves and foliage. They work well with other plants, grouped together or alone.Drought-tolerant succulents are plants that retain water within specially adapted stems and...

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Will El Niño save California gardens?

How can we grow sustainable gardens that look good with rain or drought?It seems to be an amusing quirk of human nature: we tend to believe that the way things are now is how they will always be. Even...

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Growing the ‘New Climate’ garden

A well designed garden will thrive with rain or drought. As the weather becomes more extreme all over the world, polar ice caps melt, technology shrinks distance with instant communications and the...

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Why water wise gardens need plants

Water wise gardens need plants for good health, balance, usefulness and beauty. In areas suffering from drought, homeowners and businesses are allowing lawns to die and open areas are being covered...

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Water-wise gardens bloom with nonliving materials

This geometric design shows a range of nonliving garden materials to mix artistically with succulent plants. Water-wise gardens can double as living areas. Although we tend to think of a garden as a...

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Garden grasses are for more than lawns

Mixed grasses offer textural and colorful effects that move gracefully in the breeze. Gardens love grasses! The number of garden grasses is awesome. They are more than lawns. We tend to think of grass...

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