I wanted a tabletop lithop garden- I have a new inspiration! Thanks!

Reused broken concrete! Genius!

I guess you could say that crevice plants have found their niche in life. I grew up in Arvada.

Hi Kenton, You came to my house in Arvada many years ago as a consultant for my front yard rock garden. We love it, especially in May. Thank you for starting me on my rock garden journey.

Steve! What a discovery to stumble upon the interview I had been wishing for. I bought Seth's book a month ago, and have been vigorously scultping my first crevice garden on our property in the woods of NCarolina. I am mostly concerned, before planting, to get the base material right; the proper soil composition. My native soil is red-clay-like, yet some is dusty and dry lifeless dirt, with a plethora of small pebbles and jagged rocks, so I am adding more local rock dust and masonry sand to the mix. Good luck to you in CA, (where I previously lived).

Wow, that was fabulous, thank you so much!

what is the name of the architect turned landscaper you met in the north?

Hi, wonder if you could help me increase my yield on my one tree. I have a dwarf avocado tree probably 15 years old. Each year I get tons of leaves and a lot of shoots that end up falling off the tree. I probably get 10 edible avocados a year from the tree. How can I prevent those shoots from falling off the tree and becoming edible fruit? Any suggestions?

Hello, I happen to be an American living in Australia. With the eremophila, if you want it bushy prune whilst it is young with tip prunings. It still keeps the very upright habit though and doesn't really truly look 'bushy' in my opinion and I tend to prefer it as a few plumes. Other species of eremophila are more naturally bushy if someone wants a truly shrubby looking one. Generally I'd prune it after flowering before it gets a post flowering growth spurt. Cuttings strike easily (pretty much every emu bush will) but may require better drainage than the parent plant if the parent plant was grafted onto rootstock by the nursery grower to help it be more 'general buying public' friendly for the shops.

Why did he stop making youtube videos in Aloes and Wonderland? Did he lose a lot of specimens because of the inclement weather?

Amazing talk! Really helped me choose the proper plants in my native garden…..thanks so much.

Peace be upon you. In my home garden, sycd was grown 15 years ago. During the first 13 years it was good, but in the last two years, the growth of the leaves began to be incomplete. Note that I fertilize it every winter with manure or compost, and during the summer with NPK fertilizer. Help us❤

I always watch videos related to environment but the way this video is made I must say sorry.. But as you tried I must like this video as well..

Loved this, thanks for posting. I got your book.

Thanks for sharing my calotropus plant.

Very informative. This will definitely help. Thank you

ive lived away from la for a while now and learning about this recently has been wonderful. we cant wait to go visit the micro forest the next time were in town. i wish we could move back just so we could grow our own

Thank you so much for sharing this lecture!

Outstanding presentation!

i think that some hort folks put a place name on common species - like Arctostaphylos manzanita - in order to distinguish it from other populations - sometimes there is a visible difference, but others don't have anything particularly distinct visibly.

Thank you so much. So inspiring. I'm a newbie native gardener in SoCal. Her books sound wonderful and informative. And I think I'm a member too!

girls are experts for everything, man is nothing

Unfortunately, we had problems with the audio capture for this presentation. Turning on the Closed Caption (CC) option will help a bit.

Katherine: Thank you so very very much for putting this inspirational teaching together - all of us and L.A. will be better for it.

Thanks for the presentation Katherine and SoCal Horticultural Society for uploading this. It's great to see some effort put into building up ecosystems in the concrete jungle, a.k.a. L.A. With the droughts going on, these kinds of projects are a good step forward. It's confusing how cities, towns and home owners steward public and private places in these times we live in with water shortages going on. Can drive a sane person out-sane. I'm based a couple hours east of LA and wanted to ask if you have any networks that you are ok with sharing to talk with about this stuff. I've been going down some rabbit holes in regards to permaculture for close to a year now but don't really know of any networks in SoCal to talk to about addressing methods to tackle these concerning times with restoring natural ecosystems and waterways. Seems a great deal of this drought stuff could be easily addressed with the right steps taken with building up ecosystems, better city planning, and managing watersheds to slow down water flows so water has a home in the soil. Regardless, keep up the good work and much respect!

Greetings from Australia. I saw the blood lilies flowering profusely on the banks of Victoria Falls in Sth Africa

An amazing talk, so instructive and well explained.

amazing 😘

Dear Sir I'm an Agave lover since ten years. And for cacti in my young years. i bought your wonderful book and would be happy for à New issue with species you didnt treat about in your Book Thanks and regards from Toulouse France

Incredibly beautiful, at the same time hopeful and inspiring.

I show this every semester to my Horticulture class at Port of Los Angeles High School! We now do a "Compost Hub" assignment where they imagine/draw in a 2-3 block radius from their home, 1) All the places they could gather compostables, 2) Where they could take those compostables to turn into compost, and 3) What could be done with the compost in that radius! I encourage imagination around business ideas, volunteerism, gig work, barter economy, etc. Young people are excited to imagine a future of this "work" being the "work" we do! ';) Paz.

spectacular! this presentation was quite inspiring. Thank you

Thank you Greg. Great to hear you in a different guise especially in these difficult times. I do miss the travelling around though. Winston. 💖💖🌹🌹🎉🎉🎉🎉

I really enjoyed this presentation. Very informative. Just picked up a Parryi Truncata this morning. I picked up a Quadricolor, an Americana, and what I believe to be a Striata, all over the last month+. I also have a golden barrel and a devil's tongue cacti. I'm collecting plants for a small garden I want to create next Spring.

This was uploaded quickly! thank you!

This was a great presentation. Appreciate you posting it.

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Wow, Joan, great crista-galli and thanks John, almost like being back at the meetings!

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Thank you very kindly for this video. All this information just lights me up!

hooray for all those 3 million plant observations, too!

What a great Video thank you

Absolutely beautiful!! Thank you, Scott! Your work is gorgeous and the Gottlieb Garden is inspirational.

Someone asked where to buy CA native plants in Riverside. Viewer J.P. wrote in that Parkview Nursery usually has CA natives and can make special orders.

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thank you for this. great to meet a few new plants. It would be great to know if any of these plants are potentially invasive and what kind of water they require.

That's really an awesome job.😍

Erin and Yvonne...great job. John (you're a beast!) and I go back more than 30 years. I'm thinking even before I hosted a radio/TV show. Everyone keep up the good work. Much success to So Cal Hort!