What People Are Saying
It was such a joy to work with Rose on a native garden design for my backyard! She has such deep knowledge, yet made this whole process straight forward and clear to me, someone who is very much a beginner learner. The customized design we received is absolutely remarkable and has so much information and resources included. I absolutely cannot wait to make my yard a pollinator paradise.
Rose is warm, friendly, professional, and her love and passion for native plants and healthy ecosystems is contagious. I feel so inspired and ready to transform my backyard!
— Kelly P.
FOR DESIGN & LANDSCAPE PROFESSIONALS
You have the expertise to create beautiful, resilient landscapes. I provide guidance to successfully select and install native plants that your sustainability-forward clients will love for their aesthetic and ecological value.
Create landscapes that not only use less fossil fuels and water but actively support pollinators, safeguard biodiversity without compromising beauty.
FOR INDIVIDUALS & BUSINESSES
Whether you are establishing a new native garden or have questions about tending an existing landscape, I can provide practical guidance in everything from plant selection and design to navigating LADWP rebate applications (you may qualify for $5/square foot if you are replacing lawn with natives), ongoing water-saving strategies and maintenance.
Rose Fairley, Consulting Naturalist & Native Plant Garden Designer
UC ANR Certified California Naturalist
Certified California Native Plant Landscaper (Theodore Payne Foundation/CNPS)
My favorite part of the consulting process is listening to what’s meaningful for my clients while considering what the land needs–and guiding people to plants that are both beautiful and ecologically powerful. I love introducing people to native plants that deep our connection with home.
Whether a tasty edible ground cover like Miner’s Lettuce, a riotous bloomer like California Lilac or a balm to the nervous system like Black Sage, native plants have so much to offer.
I look forward to learning more about what you value and how I can support your gardening path!
Long-horned bee nesting in a California poppy. Native plants support “the little things that run the world,” our pollinators and other critters that are the foundation of our food web.
California Bush Poppy is an evergreen shrub with sunny, melon-scented flowers. Many California native plants engage us through their delightful fragrance, soothing our nervous system in the process.
California Buckwheat is both visually stunning and ecologically powerful. One of our most important food plants for moths and butterflies, the cream-to-pink blossoms turn to deep mahogany seeds, offering late summer color to the garden.
It’s difficult to resist ‘Margarita BOP’, a compact cultivar of the beloved foothill penstemon.
Scarlet Larkspur, Delphinium cardinale, a slender-stalked and colorful delight of a California native plant! With their long nectar-holding spurs, this plant is pollinated primarily by hummingbirds.
With their mahogany bark, evergreen foliage and dainty pink flowers, and cultivars from ground cover to tree form, there’s a lot to love about our native Manzanitas.
Above - Liz Liu installing a ‘Sentinel’ Manzanita, Arctostaphylos densiflora, for Plant Friends’ “Holding Habitat” native container garden at Pine & Crane DTLA.
With 6500 plants native to California, there are ample choices for creative color palettes and year-round blooms.
Above - Canterbury Bells, Phacelia minor and Gold Pincushion, Chaenactis glabriuscula, make a striking combination of Angelenos’ beloved Purple and Gold.