Save the date to join us in the Songbird Paradise!
Date: Sunday, April 6, 2025
Time: 10AM – 4PM
Location: La Crescenta and Greater Los Angeles
Tickets: Now Available!
Save the dates and join us to see LA’s authentic beauty in action! Each year the Theodore Payne Foundation for Wildflowers and Native Plants selects beautiful gardens throughout LA County to give Angelenos a chance to experience gardens that give LA a distinctive sense of place, support wildlife and pollinators, and boost LA’s overall resilience.
On Sunday, you’ll find us in the Songbird Paradise of Leor and Gordon Ownby in La Crescenta. Featured on the Native Plant Garden Tour in 2010 when it was newly planted, vibrant foliage now spills over the front garden’s dry stack rock wall to greet visitors. It’s sings and hums with birds, bees and butterflies attracted to the diverse, distinctive LA habitat it offers, inspiring Gordon’s beautiful bird photography. In back, a new outdoor living space sits at the base of a steep, newly planted slope. A visit here is a great chance to witness how placing the right plant in the right place translates into a high beauty, low maintenance experience through the years.
We hope to see you out in the blooms!
Sneak Peak
Here are some of our favorite spots in the Songbird Paradise along with the birds Gordon has captured enjoying the space.
by Gordon Ownby
by Gordon Ownby
Plant Palettes
Want to create a garden that brings birds to your garden? Here is the plant palette for the Songbird Paradise, as well as that of the Sustainable Storybook Garden featured on the Saturday tour.
