Garden Designers Roundtable: Turning a lawn into a native garden (on a budget)

Here in the East Bay of California, the Bringing Back the
Natives tour held each May is one of the most popular garden tours around.
Not only is it free, but unlike the expensive, professionally designed and installed gardens that are
the hallmark of other fund-raising tours, most of the
gardens were designed and installed at least in part by the homeowners
themselves. Tour-goers are as interested in asking “how to” questions as they
are in admiring the beauty of a California native garden in sprin...