MWDOC’s OC Water Smart Gardens webpage provides a surplus of helpful guides and fact sheets, as well as an interactive photo gallery of water-saving landscape ideas that allows you to add the California Friendly plants that inspire you to a shopping list. Visit the webpage today for a collection of resources to help you save time, money, and water!

The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) created Calscape to make it easier for people to find and grow beautiful native plant gardens. Today, 50 percent of California’s residential water goes to landscape irrigation, but native gardening can change that. Native plants generally require 60 to 80 percent less water than traditional landscaping plants.

The Municipal Water District of Orange County (MWDOC) has compiled a variety of tree resources to help you select and care for the trees in your landscape!

The Municipal Water District of Orange County has collaborated with top landscape designers to create FREE landscape designs for your use. The designs provided include examples of landscapes that thrive in Southern California’s semi-arid climate.

Metropolitan Water District of Southern California offers free, virtual classes in landscape design and irrigation principles. Courses include plant selection and care, irrigation controller programming and scheduling. Mini-tutorials offer a chance to brush up on key points of water-wise gardening.

Water that runs off your property from excess irrigation, car washing, or hosing down sidewalks is both a water use efficiency issue and a stormwater issue. H2OC was created by the Orange County Stormwater Program to help Orange County residents take action to keep our local waterways healthy for generations to come.

We have compiled a list of local landscaping resources to help you design and maintain a California Friendly landscape. There are a variety of native and California Friendly plants that are suited to southern California’s semi-arid climate and require very little water.

Find the perfect plants and flowers for your garden with Sunset Magazine’s Plant Finder tool. Discover which plants are most ideal for your landscape based on your local climate zone, sun exposure, and personal plant preferences.

A Maintenance Guide for Landscapers, Gardeners, and Land Manager