2.28 Native Plants for Lazy Gardners with Greg Travis

I think we understand more and more that life webs that we’re all in makes human beings happier and healthier, that there’s things to do to acknowledge those life webs and do what we can do to help it.

Greg Travis is an old friend of mine, who has become an amateur expert on native plants gardening.  He and his partner bought their 1908 craftsman they now call home in West Adams area of Los Angeles in 2001.  Greg’s primary goal was to have “dirt” where he could do gardening.  At the time he was a self-proclaimed “frustrated gardener” and was going through a certificate program for horticulture and garden design.  When not many were talking about the native plants yet, one instructor who taught him about the California natives really influenced him, which led him on a journey of creating his dream garden.  He transformed the front yard from the typical grass yard into a lush garden that hosts not only a wide variety of native plants, which attracts variety of pollinators like birds, bees and butterflies, requiring little irrigation.  Hear how he designed, planted and nurtured his beautiful garden including some of the mistakes he made.