Long Beach Community Action Partners and their Green Lab Urban Farm along with local experts are preparing to launch our Native and Drought tolerant installation out at the LBCAP Campus with our Green Jobs Interns. In order to educate ourselves, we attended a walk and talk Saturday April 17th the Rancho Los Alamitos with renowned Native Landscape expert Bob Perry. He was really interesting, a great instructor and I can’t put down the book (Which I would highly recommend to everyone!). The Rancho recently completed a Native Garden and we were able to stroll through and observe the assorted conditions and the plants associated with them right here in our zone. We are so blessed to have such a wide variety from which to choose. In Long Beach we can look at plants from Mediterranean Gardens, California Natives, Subtropicals, Southwestern, Woodland,and Coastal plant categories – all have amazing plants that we can consider for our project.
Follow us as we investigate the existing irrigation, identify the pipe locations, remove inappropriate plant material, repair trees and install satellite sensors for the watering system.
Our parkway garden in an urban setting will be filled with drought tolerant ornamentals and edibles. Fragrant when you brush past, attractive to hummingbirds, bees and butterflies! Urban gardens will help to bring a lively habitat back to the inhospitable concrete environment.
Mr. Perry starts and ends his talk with the importance of plants on earth, a very appropriate topic this Earth Week! More on the plants and the scientific process next time.
