nATIVE GARDEN
DESIGN
Plant Friends’ Southern California native gardens are not only low water and drought tolerant (that too!) but ecological powerhouses that work to restore earth by supporting the health of birds, bugs and other pollinators. Native plants anchor the ecosystem and may be joined by beloved established plants and food plants (including native edible plants!). Join the chorus of life in a natural garden full of fragrance, color and abundant beauty–unique to the place you love.
We’ve designed pollinator paradise terrace gardens in Highland Park, container gardens in Downtown Los Angeles, and transformed a lawn to a vibrant cottge-style garden with California natives in Cheviot Hills. Rose Fairley is a Certified California Naturalist and a Theodore Payne/California Native Plant Society Certified California Native Landscape Professional. Design inspiration comes from the array of wild plant communities in Southern California.
email rose at rose.plantfriends@gmail.com to schedule A garden design consultation.
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.
— Kelly P.
coming soon: portfolio & about page.
A few of the many
California native PLANTS
we love in the garden…
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.