Shiloh’s Playground
Installation April 2022
Project Scope
removal of grass, some plants + Italian Cypress hedges
yard leveling
grass removal
sheet mulching
new garden boxes
added fruit trees
Project Details
🌎 Highland Park
🏡 474 sq ft, front yard + parkway | LADWP Rebate recipient
☀️ Mostly full sun with dappled shade under existing Acacia tree
💧 Everything on drip lines
Front Yard Plants
Blue-eyed Grass - Sisyrinchium bellum
Bush Sunflower - Encelia californica
Coyote Mint - Monardella villosa
Firecracker Penstemon - Penstemon eatonii
Fragrant Pitcher Sage - Lepechinia fragrans
Howard McMinn Manzanita - Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Howard McMinn'
Hummingbird Sage - Salvia spathacea
Indian Mallow- Abutilon palmeri
Kurapia - Lippia nodiflora (non-native)
Lilac Verbena - Verbena lilacina
Mrs. Beard Creeping Sage - Salvia sonomensis 'Mrs. Beard'
Ray Hartman Ceanothus - Ceanothus 'Ray Hartman'
Scarlet Bugler - Penstemon centranthifolius
Woolly Bluecurls - Trichostema lanatum
Fruit Trees
Cara Cara Orange
Mexican Lime
Yellow Nectarine
Parkway Plants
California Goldenrod - Solidago velutina ssp. californica
Moonshine Yarrow - Achillea millefolium 'Moonshine' (non-native)
Redflower Buckwheat - Eriogonum grande
Terracotta Yarrow - Achillea millefolium ‘Terracotta’
Seed packets (roadside mix from Theodore Payne)
Existing Plants
Acacia - Acacia spp. P. Mill
Frangipani - Plumeria
Lemon tree - Citrus limon (L.) Burm. F.
The following images showcase the "before" and "after" shots.
