TreePeople's Guide to Yards

Our urban forest, and our resilience against drought, includes your yard! Help us create a more sustainable Southern California by transforming and maintaining your yard into a gorgeous drought-resistant paradise. Our regional ecology is full of plants with bright flowers and healthy soils, not European grasses or rocks and cacti.

Half of urban water use goes towards outdoor irrigation. With these do-it-yourself solutions, you can help reduce the amount of water we waste.

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Your one-stop guide to everything you ever wanted to know about picking the right California native plants for your garden. From grasses, to flowers, to trees and more, let our 50 years of experience help you plant the garden of your dreams. Download the pdf here!

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DON’T Make This Tree Pruning Mistake: To Prune or not to Prune

Tree topping is a pruning practice that could cause long-term damage to your trees. With that in mind, it’s important to know when and how to prune your trees. While it’s important to check your trees yearly, they don’t necessarily need to be pruned each time!

Stop the Top

You’ve undoubtedly seen it, and may aggravate you as you drive by it. The sight of a mature tree that has been cut well below the height it should be reaching.

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