G3 Associate, Tom Rau, is featured in this video clip from KCAL 9 (February 2014) covering the Hands-on Workshop conducted by G3 at the newly completed Ocean Friendly Demonstration Garden at Hawthorne City Hall. Tom, a CA licensed landscape architect, was the G3 Designer on the project; he and Marianne Simon led the three hour HOW on Planting and Irrigation for the more than forty people from the community who showed up to learn more about Ocean Friendly Gardens.
Ocean Friendly Gardens are sustainable landscapes that use CPR: Conservation/Permeability/Retention to reduce the amount of water required for the garden (dry-adapted native plants and low flow irrigation), build the soil sponge to hold on to rainwater as a resource, and retain the stormwater from adjacent hard surfaces.
