Demonstration Gardens

A demonstration garden exists to demonstrate something, common themes are:

• Rain gardens
• Pollinator gardens
• Climate appropriate plants
• California Native plants
• Mediterranean plants
• Espalier fruit trees
• Berm garden
• Herb garden
• Backyard Orchard
• Arbors
• Worms (Vermicompost)
• Xeriscape

Demonstration gardens can be built by anyone with the motivation to do it. Groups that often build or host them are:

• Native plant groups
• Nature conservatories
• Community action groups
• Water companies
• Municipal Departments such as city parks departments or sustainability departments
• Public Gardens such as the Los Angeles County Arboretum

Some demonstration gardens are created by individuals, such as Ron Finley, who built a food garden in his parkway to show his neighbors how to grow food.

A lot of demonstration gardens are small and hard to find, we rely on word-of-mouth to find them. Do you know of a demonstration garden that we don't have listed? Let us know about it and we'll add it to the list!