This Garden tour favorite complements a rare, historic workman’s cottage
Hilda Weiss and Wayne Lindberg lovingly restored the historic workman’s cottage on their property before deciding to surround it with an authentic, hardworking landscape of California native foliage.
The Urban Wildlife Habitat has hosted several Native Plant Garden Tours, Santa Monica Conservancy architectural tours, as well as a Garden Conservancy Open Days. Tour goers enjoy the homeowners’ passion for historic preservation and native foliage as much as they like the garden’s beauty!
Project Snapshot
The Weiss’ raised edible garden beds fill to the brim with herbs, vegetables and lettuce in the spring. Hilda perpetually evolves the planted foliage with new native plants from the riparian foliage that supports the biological pond to the abundant wildflowers that fill in foliage beds and wrap the IdealMow Meadows.
See the full project gallery, including before photos in Houzz, where you can save your favorite ideas. Hear from Hilda in our Client Insights section. This residential garden isn’t Hilda Weiss’ only garden project – she also inspired and now maintains the Shotgun Coastal Garden at The Santa Monica Conservancy’s Preservation Resource Center.
Plant Palettes
Want a landscape to increase the yield of your Victory Gardens? Support wildlife? Or maybe just to thrive in the sandy soils and salty ocean breezes near the beach? Check out the plant palette we chose for the Urban Wildlife Garden. You’ll also find a selection of our edible garden tips in Pinterest, where you can save your favorite ideas.
