Design
ojai landscaping designs
Access any of the following landscaping vignettes designed specifically for the Ojai Valley below for free. These plans use plants available at almost all OVLC Plant Sales. Each plan is equipped with notes for customization to make your garden your own!
Other Design Resources
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Take a short quiz to receive a customized plant list and landscaping plan for free! This is a great way to get started with planning your garden.
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Get customized landscaping designs and plant palettes free from the California Native Plant Society. These guides will help you design and get started with your native plant garden!
Since this resource is created for all of California, not all plants occur in our local area and are therefore not recommended by OVLC. This is a great place to start and customize to make your own!
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Get native garden inspiration and free landscaping plans from Bloom California. These plans show a variety of different yard features and functions for you to choose from!
Since this resource is created for all of California, not all plants occur in our local area and are therefore not recommended by OVLC. This is a great place to start and customize to make your own!
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Inspirational, practical, and easy to use, this book was created with the aim of conveying the awesome diversity and beauty of California's native plants and demonstrating how they can be brought into ecologically sound, attractive, workable, and artful gardens. Structured around major California plant communities - ”bluffs, redwoods, the Channel Islands, coastal scrub, grasslands, deserts, oak woodlands, mixed evergreen woodlands, riparian, chaparral, mountain meadows, and wetlands” - the book's twelve chapters each include sample plans for a native garden design accompanied by original drawings, color photographs, a plant list, tips on successful gardening with individual species, and more.
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Feeling a little overwhelmed or looking for support creating or caring for your native garden?
Check out Theodore Payne's Job Board. This job board is restricted to landscapers and designers who have completed Theodore Payne's California Native Plant Landscaper Certification Course, ensuring that all professionals found on this board will know how to create and care for a native garden.
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Looking for a native plant landscaper?
Search landscapers knowledgeable in native plants here! Calscape's database allows you to search by service provided and county.
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Follow Homegrown National Park’s steps to design your own native plant garden!
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Not sure how many plants will fit in your garden?
You can calculate that number here! Enter the number of plants in each size category to get the square footage.
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Check out DarkSky International to learn more about how you can reduce your light pollution and make your garden friendlier to our native fauna. Night lighting can be seriously detrimental to many of our native species, so learn how you can make your garden safer and able to support more biodiversity.
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Calflora’s Planting Guide creates a list of hyperlocal native species that occur in any specific location selected on the map. This list includes pictures, blooming season, pollinators supported, and more!