00:00We've come to Mission Trails Park to get a concept of some of the stuff we're going to
00:06be putting in to the ground at John and Carol's, I guess the philosophy of the garden, if you
00:11will.
00:12Matching with where you live.
00:14And that's really what we want to do.
00:16In fact, there's a big canyon in Kensington that if you went down into it, you would find
00:20all these same plants, all the common characters of Southern California's chaparral.
00:24And really understanding those plants that grow around you.
00:28You live in a certain region, you learn the climate and the phenology, you know, the timing
00:33of the seasonality of plants based on where you live.
00:35That gives you a sense of place.
00:38People go to like the garden center, like a big box store, just to get greenery to just
00:41stuff in it.
00:42They don't care what it is.
00:43They just want some fluffer plant.
00:44Yeah, some flip this house.
00:45But you're not using native, you know, it's going to do so much better.
00:48It's not going to look like, you're not going to have to water it.
00:51When they routinely watered their lawn, John and Carol would typically consume around 400
00:55gallons of water per day.
00:58With their new native garden, they hope to cut that consumption in half.
01:03To make that happen, Jeremy will rely on the common characters of the Southern California
01:08chaparral.
01:09This is another neat one that looks good most of the year.
01:12Dudleya pulverlenta and Artemisia californica, salvia apiana, white sage.
01:19Like most of these plants, it has a real, you know, subtle kind of beauty.
01:23As opposed to a lot of the plants people look at initially, it's really bright and it's
01:27flashy and it just kind of can look like a woman with too much makeup, I suppose.
01:31They want the tacky s**t.
01:32They want to make the showy s**t.
01:34Come on people, stick to the natives, like the California buckwheat.
01:39It's just holds so many tiny flowers.
01:42Areogonum fasciculatum.
01:44Its many microscopic flowers form the base of the food chain by feeding tiny pollinating
01:49insects.
01:51Oh yeah.
01:54So f**king tiny.
01:55So tiny.
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