Put down the hedge trimmer.
Southern California Landscape Maintenance: Ecological Maintenance, Simplified
Most Southern California landscapes are cared for the same way every week: mow, blow, shear, repeat. It looks tidy after the crew leaves, but it slowly wears the plants down. They thin out and fail, the soil goes bare, and the owner ends up paying to replace plants that might have lasted twenty years.
This manual lays out a better way. Ecological maintenance, based on research and science, explained and simplified. Twenty-six rules cover the main ideas, every instruction is illustrated, and a visual guide in English and Spanish helps everyone on the job understand each other.
- Paperback
- 7 × 10 in, full color
- Price
- $39.95
- ISBN
- 979-8-9983939-0-7
Everyone with a stake in the landscape
- CrewsEvery instruction is illustrated, so it can be followed on the job.
- Maintenance business ownersA better kind of work to train for and to sell.
- HomeownersWhat to ask of the people looking after your garden.
- Cities and HOAsA standard to write into contracts and walk-throughs.
- Landscape designersSomething to hand over with the planting plan.
The rules in the book are the same ones behind our maintenance standards and the crew training we do through landscape management.
Christina Sergy is a landscape designer in Long Beach, California, and owner of Root & Branch Landscapes. She is a Certified Watershed Wise Landscape Professional and a California Native Plant Landscaper, holds board positions with APLD (Association of Professional Landscape Designers), and serves as a Commissioner for her city's climate action and sustainability arm. She trains maintenance crews and helps landscape businesses make the switch.
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