How to create a patio habitat in pots with native plants Los Angeles Times

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Every inch of the perimeter is covered with plastic and ceramic pots brimming with buckwheat and verbena, dudleya, penstemon and black sage. There’s even a small manzanita with its dainty fairy bell flowers and a fat bush poppy erupting with lemon-yellow blooms. Even California native plants can dry out in the summer. But these varieties will still look good in Los Angeles yards and gardens during the hottest months.

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In our Plant PPL series, we interview people of color in the plant world. If you have suggestions for PPL to include, tag us on Instagram @latimesplants. She didn’t know much about plants, but the work sounded interesting and useful, she said. Then, the night before the project was to begin, she found herself transfixed by an article in The Times about efforts to resurrect the language of the Tongva, one of Southern California’s native peoples. Elevate your kitchen decor with our sleek, modern designs that bring style and sophistication to your cooking space. Crafted with precision using high-quality materials, our cookware ensures durability and superior performance in the kitchen.

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“Choose a high percentage of evergreen plants that bloom at different times of the year.” Many native plants go dormant in the summer, which is not a good look for a terrace, or helpful to pollinators, she said. And bloom times are especially important in small spaces, so you can be sure something is always providing food for the pollinators and pleasure for the humans. It’s like the entirety of her roughly 140-square-foot patio is a polite but defiant reminder that sometimes the “experts” — like the ones who told her she needed land to grow native plants — are wrong. “Choose plants that are easy and forgiving,” — like common yarrow — that grow easily almost everywhere, or pick plants adapted to your specific climate.

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Many plants shut down during high heat, such as several days over 100 degrees, and aren’t able to absorb any water, so leaving them in a pot of warm wet soil could lead to root rot. Keep an eye on the forecast, water your plants deeply before a heat wave and then leave them alone until the temperatures drop. “Amend the soil a couple of times a year.” Native plants rarely need feeding when they’re planted in the ground, but in containers, any nutrients in the soil are being leached out with every watering.

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For everyday growing, you can probably increase the number of bulbs placed in a pot. Here are the best retail native plant nurseries in Southern California to help you create a habitat for birds and pollinators in your yard or even on a patio. After the 1st of November, heavily water the pots as it takes time for the peat moss in the super soil to completely saturate with water. If you see pots drying  out on top, give these extra water. If you see a bulb raising its head out of the ground, dump out the soil and carefully replant the bulb or bulbs at a lower level in the pot.

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Chung said her plants do better when she adds coffee grounds, cinnamon and worm castings to the soil every six months or so. Chung became enamored with native plants in 2019, when she volunteered to help with a TreePeople habitat restoration project in Topanga. She was coming out of a period of intense grief after losing her beloved golden retriever, Ella, to cancer in 2018.

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Elevate your kitchen with our innovative, high-quality cookware pieces that blend precision craftsmanship with cutting-edge design. Prisk Native Garden’s fragrant blooms usually are inaccessible to the public, but this spring you have two chances to visit during SoCal’s many spring garden tours. Experience cutting-edge technology in our cookware designs that enhance cooking precision and efficiency. Princess House Cookware is a leading US brand offering a versatile range of high-quality cookware and household goods. “It was a beautiful piece of work, and I was so astonished I hadn’t known about any of this before. I’ve lived in Boston, traveled to Europe, but for the first time I realized how much history there is here, in Los Angeles; a very ancient history that was nearly wiped out,” Chung said.

Chung began working with other restoration groups, such as the Santa Monica Mountains Fund, and the more she learned about native plants, the more she wanted to try growing her own. I thought, ‘I understand what you’re saying; you only want what’s best for the plants,’” she said. Barbara Chung may have the tiniest habitat garden in Los Angeles — some 200 mostly native plants in pots on her 7-by-20-foot townhouse terrace — and she’s happy to erase any doubts about whether patio habitats can really support wildlife.

Email calendar submissions or plant-related story ideas to for consideration. The mama visits several flowers, but her favorites are the thick magenta blooms of hummingbird sage (Salvia spathacea) and the violet, deep-throated flowers of fragrant pitcher sage (Lepechinia fragrans). They do well in pots and containers deep enough to let their roots run.

Chung said she learned quickly that desert plants were unhappy with the moisture in Santa Monica. Now it’s blooming happily in a pot outside her kitchen window. Those are Chung’s favorites, too, and they grow particularly well among the plants arranged in neat rows on her south-facing patio.

For show bulbs, I prefer they do not touch each other. My rule of thumb is to place them at least the diameter of the bulbs apart with the same distance from the side of the pot. Jeanette Marantos is a Features reporter focused primarily on plants, gardening and Southern California’s changing landscapes for the Los Angeles Times. Times Plants newsletter, which includes a calendar of upcoming plant-related events.