Home Gardens "Making every backyard come to life" ❤

HOME GARDENS

"TO MAKE EVERY BACKYARD COME TO LIFE"

Our mission is to disconnect you and your family from

the outside world and make your home your personal

sanctuary with a garden that will provide your family with

beauty, calmness, healthy fruits, vegetables, and peace.

We want to help you turn your yard into a garden, where you can recharge and reinvigorate yourself and your family.

Our goal is to bring serenity to your home for the purpose of both

mental health and better nutrition for yourself and your loved ones.

Happiness, personal peace, and community won't just appear but with a little water, they can grow.

How to get started

Select your Garden Boxes

We want to make this process as easy as possible, as we believe this is crucial to a healthy

happy life.

Through a great selection of all-natural seeds and seedlings, you can personalize a package

that suits you and your home.

Whether your goal is butterflies or butternut squash or both, choose your backyard's direction

and watch it come to life.

With a quick discovery of sun angles and general layout, together we can figure out the best

way to maximize space and beauty.

The first choice to make would be the garden box sizes and types.

Sizes range from:

micro (one by two)

small (two by four)

medium (four by four)

large (four by eight)

Call us for a free introductory presentation at 562-237-2879

Next step is to select your package.

Each package selection comes with 4 species of your choosing, per garden box.

Plants need a little root room.

A good rule of thumb is one plant per square foot of garden box.

Example - Two medium garden boxes can fit 4 species in each.

Our most popular design is two medium garden boxes with two different package types in each (meal and healing).

If you would like to start small, buying a micro box or small box will come with the seeds waiting for their turn in the dirt.

Each package selection also comes with 1 free random potted species.

Package Selection

The Meal Package

Hungry for health? From herbs to fruits, your backyard can be the grocery store.

Swiss Chard, Kale, and sweet onions are some of the favorites. Chayote squash is delicious and can put up with the heat. Spaghetti squash is excellent for a healthy alternative to pasta.

Eggplant is a family favorite and zucchini is a hearty and tough grower.

The list goes on do not hesitate to call about specific species information.

One thing to know is that these plants love a little elbow room.

Micro and small boxes can fit two to three different species.

The mediums can fit four to five and the large can handle six.

More popular choices -

Beet (Red ) - Beet (Sugar) - Fava Beans - Green beans - Peppers - Radishes - Cucumber - Pumpkins - Sunflowers - Bell Peppers -

Lettuce - Parsley - Cilantro - Basil - Blueberries -

Watermelon (difficult) - Strawberries (difficult) and my personal favorite Santa Rose Plums (Very Difficult).

The Healing Package

Nature is ready to heal from head to toe.

Inside and out.

White Sage can be dried out and used in tea to fight colds, and the bitter leaves are antimicrobial in nature.

Lavender for mental clarity, as well as, an exhaustion reducer.

Plus a favorite for hummingbirds and swallowtails.

Fumes from a burning bundle of sagebrush leaves are known to help clear out a respiratory tract infection and are used by native Americans in southern California to ease childbirth.

Chamomile, Aloe, and Rue for the stomach.

Healthy alternatives to modern medicine are ready and waiting, for water.

Elderberry is a popular choice, with antioxidants known to give the immune system a large boost while giving the birds something to eat as well.

Mint, an easy grower in southern California, is known to decrease stress and anxiety and is used as a sleep remedy.

The Echinacea plant is commonly used as an immune system enhancer.

Thyme has anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and antiseptic properties, it has long been used to help heal cuts, bruises, and scrapes.

St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) is a small herb with yellow flowers native to Europe, we can give this one a pass especially since it's growing happily all around the United States.

It's highly effective for alleviating depression and anxiety.

The Pretty Package

Along with the grocery garden boxes, your yard should be used to all of its potential and for your enjoyment.

Using a large selection of different species that are both drought-tolerant and native can turn your yard into a sanctuary.

It doesn't have to be native to the area since some are too pretty to pass up, but drought tolerance is planning for the future.

The pretty package tries to emphasize beauty, but many such as artichokes have a gorgeous bloom, but eating them includes PDE4, also known as phosphodiesterase-4, which is known to increase memory and brain function.

Some of my favorites for the production of a backyard sanctuary Asclepia, have an amazing bloom and are a favorite of the beautiful Monarch (our company "mascot").

Multi flower Snapdragon prefers full sun with excellent drainage,

and no water after establishment in most areas.

Deer grass is a 3-foot perennial with 2-foot plumes rising above the plant - it's interesting that Native Americans weaved baskets from this plant.

Ceanothus- is a very blue, sometimes purple, (some red-flowered) California lilac with a light fragrance.

California Fuchsias - it does great in most of California and is drip and drought-tolerant, along with being gorgeous (as are many of the California Fuchsias).

Plant List

This is not a comprehensive list, the possibilities are endless..

Listed are the favorites.

if you have a desired species just ask,.

if we do not have it we can source from one of our nurseries..

Meal Package

Lettuce

Red Kale

Curly Kale

Swiss Chard

Rosemary

Parsley

Cilantro

Basil

Red Onion

Brown Onion

Sweet Onion

Spaghetti Squash

Butternut Squash

Kabocha Squash

Blueberries

Burpless Cucumber

Persian Cucumber

Meal Package

Green Beans

Fava Beans

Blue Lake Green Beans

Thyme

Red Beet

Sugar Beet

Winter Beets

Peas

Eggplant

Sunflowers

Winter Tomatoes

Cherry Tomatoes

Banana Peppers

Bell Peppers

Tangerines

Avocadoes

Healing Plant Selections

Aloe Vera

German Chamomille

Roman Chamomille

Spearmint

Calendula

Echaneaca Purple Cone Flowers

Rue

Lavender

White Sage

Black Sage

Hummingbird Sage

Moringa

Coastal Rosemary

Pretty Plants

Chrysothamnus nauseosus

Golden Currant

California Buckwheat

Eastwood's manzanita

Scrub Oak

Prostrate Chamise

Licorice Mint

Horse Mint

Sunset Manzanita

Crape Myrtle

African Daisies

Frangipani

Butterfly Bush Buddelja

Zinnias

Benefits Page

Labeled "Green Care" in scientific studies, the link between gardening and time in "green space" is now undeniably linked to not only life satisfaction and general happiness, but linked to reductions in stress and reductions in neurological disorders.

Furthermore, it has also been reported that the social benefits of such projects can delay the symptoms of dementia.

We at Home Gardens value heavily the resurgence of family, community, and personal values.

Interestingly, the benefits of green space may not be related to physical activity but might rely more on improved social interaction.

These studies are peer-reviewed, but prior to reading this, the benefits were already understood.

The broader studies in relation to "Green time" are also combined with the benefits of individual plants and the combination leads to a better and happier life, says the science, and we agree.

The many benefits are well known, but dont take our word for it. We have taken information from peer reviewed studies that have been done worldwide. Some of our favorites have been cited here if you would really like to "get into the weeds" on the topic.

Gardening specifically was linked to a decrease in mental health problems, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer of the breast and colon, and in an Australian study, gardening was found to be more effective than walking, education, or maintaining alcohol intake at moderate levels in protecting against dementia.

Cited Sources:

Maas J. van Dillen SM. Verheij RA. Groenewegen PP. social contact as possible mechanisms behind the relationship between green space and health. Health Place. 2009;15:586–95

Soga M. Gaston, KJ. Yamaura Y. Gardening is beneficial for health: a meta-analysis. Prev Med Rep. 2017;5:92–9.

Simons, LA. Simons J. McCallum, J. Friedlander Y. Lifestyle factors and risk of dementia: Dubbo Study of the Elderly. Med J Aust. 2006;184:68–70.

Thompson R. Gardening for health: a regular dose of gardening. Clin Med (Lond). 2018 Jun;18(3):201-205.