Category: Vera’s Gardens in Trabuco Canyon

• Planting a Seasonal Meadow

  

  Last December 2021, we created a seasonal meadow of local grasses and wildflowers that would provide beauty, color, and life after winter rains in a 12,000 square-foot park space at Vera’s Gardens.

  E. Wallace

  January 4, 2022

  Gardening with Native Plants, Vera’s Gardens in Trabuco Canyon

  California poppies, native plants, pollinators, wildflowers

• Creating an Avian Garden

  

  In September, we began work on the east side of Vera’s Sanctuary in Trabuco Canyon, where we created an Avian Garden, a 10,000-square-foot project that is interconnected with two large front lawns.

  E. Wallace

  November 19, 2021

  Gardening with Native Plants, Vera’s Gardens in Trabuco Canyon

  birds, california native plants, pollinators

• Helping a Canyon Landscape

  

  For the past two and a half years, a group of gardeners and I have volunteered to rehabilitate the landscape of a five-home cul de sac in Trabuco Canyon. The site totals 12 acres and is owned by the nonprofit, The Teen Project…

  E. Wallace

  August 30, 2021

  Gardening with Native Plants, Vera’s Gardens in Trabuco Canyon

  butterfly garden, landscape

• My Interview with the LA Times

  

  Jeanette Marantos, garden reporter for the LA Times, called me in mid-February as I was returning home from a landscape restoration project I work on in Trabuco Canyon. Marantos asked me to provide a short list of the best native plants Southern Californians can plant in their home landscapes, and also why it is important…

  E. Wallace

  March 10, 2020

  Buckwheat, Gardening with Native Plants, Monarchs and Milkweed, Vera’s Gardens in Trabuco Canyon, White Sage

  birds, Buckwheat, bumblebees, california lilac, la times, manzanita, native plants, Nature