California native plants at L.A. Times Festival of Books

If the phrase “native vegetation” makes your head spin, be part of the membership.

Crops we as soon as dismissed as weeds at the moment are severe contenders in Southern California’s push for drought-tolerant landscapes. And even the phrase “panorama” is evolving as an increasing number of folks discuss utilizing their yards and patios to create “habitat” for threatened birds and pollinators.

So no surprise we’ve questions. That’s why L.A. Times Plants is teaming up with the Theodore Payne Foundation and the California Native Plant Society to offer as many solutions as attainable in the course of the L.A. Times’ Festival of Books, which runs April 22-23 at USC.

Like all of the out of doors reveals on the pageant, our sales space is free to guests (search for #404) and can be chock-full of shows and data, together with:

• A scent station, to pattern the generally intense, generally refined fragrances of California native vegetation.
• An city meadow, with grasses and different vegetation that may change a thirsty garden
• Demonstrations by Theodore Payne Basis consultants about creating habitat, rising native vegetation in containers and accumulating, saving and planting seeds.
• A information to the perfect vegetation in your state of affairs, utilizing the California Native Plant Society’s Calscape database.
• Free plant giveaways, while supplies last

And if you’d like to learn more about creating a habitat around your home, buy a ticket for our Ask a Reporter session with Options editor Brittany Levine Beckman and Crops reporter Jeanette Marantos at 3 p.m. on April 22 in Mudd Corridor 203.