Ocean Friendly Gardens

The Surfrider Foundation of Huntington /Seal Beach, Ocean Friendly Gardens Program, would like to welcome members and anyone interested to a presentation on May 20th by Sage Landscape Designs. The presentation will discuss Ocean Friendly Gardens and how to create beautiful residential landscapes that add value and pleasure to your home while helping to improve our coast and ocean environment.

Ocean Friendly Gardens is a new Surfrider Foundation program we are launching in our local chapter. An Ocean Friendly Garden includes the three principles of: Conservation, Permeability and Retention – what we like to call “CPR for Our Coast and Ocean.”

*  Conservation is a garden design and plant selection that eliminates the need for chemical fertilizers, pesticides and other unnecessary pollutants that can run off your garden and foul our coastal waterways and ocean;
*  Permeability is the principle of replacing “hardscape” like walkways, patios and other surfaces, with safe alternatives that allow rainwater to soak into the ground before it “sheets” off your landscape and into the stormdrain – carrying pollutants along the way;
*  Retention devices are included in the garden design to capture excess rainwater – again, eliminating polluted runoff from exiting our properties — while creating an attractive natural look to the garden.

Through these three simple principles, homeowners can create beautiful landscapes that thrive in the southern California climate, provide micro-habitats to make your garden a more pleasurable place to visit, and dramatically eliminate pollution – even in the wet season and years like this one.

Sage Landscape Designs learned their trade on the job and have created numerous beautiful gardens in Huntington Beach and the surrounding area.

Surfrider Foundation’s Ocean Friendly Gardens program includes not only education for homeowners to design and transform their own landscape – but we are coordinating volunteers to help others in need to create these unique gardens throughout our chapter’s area.