The Native Landscape Notebook

The Native Landscape Notebook has been started to foster an online community and discussion group of interested native plant gardeners, collectors, industry professionals, and academicians.  We will help each other to re-learn a sense of place,  especially here in Los Angeles,  to the individual sites, homes, and gardens we love to play in.  Each of us individually will never know all there is to learn about native plant landscaping in Southern California and beyond.  Therefore we are interdependent, that is, we rely on each other to grow our skills and wisdom.

About the founder  of this blog:

Steve Hernandez is President and CEO of NativeScape Development Inc., the only landscape firm educating and serving homeowners, business owners, and local governmental agencies on how to effectively achieve authentic, ecologically sustainable landscapes through results oriented design, construction and maintenance in Southern California.  Steve is co-founder and instructor of Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy, the nation’s first series of place based workshops that teach global citizens the value of ecological responsibility via systems thinking. Steve co-developed an eco-curriculum that emphasizes interactive problem solving, resource relationships in daily living, real world case studies, community building and slow food. As creator of not only sustainable landscapes but also workshops for ecologically responsible global citizens, Urban/Suburban Ecoliteracy, Hernandez is one of the nation’s leading experts on the topics of not only sustainable landscaping but also ecological pattern literacy.

“Remember we only value that which we understand”-Anonymous