Green Businesses; Tree of Life Nursery

california is home to many communities of plants that can't be found anywhere else in the world urbanization is gobbling up much of the state's natural landscapes leaving less habitat for a variety of species one small solution landscaping with native plants on any given day a million tender green youngsters are potted up and awaiting homes at tree of life co owner mike evans shows off the forty acre free nestled amongst gigantic sycamore and oak trees are forever planted with a fountain flowering plant we actually designed this to be a pollinate or insect friendly guard says they are a demonstration area for the people to walk out of a store and have a look at what they do in a very small area this will enable the week brings in the one inning we lost it's endemic in the mountains near melbourne only grows that's actually an endangered the james evans points out his sword watch the time gets an iridescent purple flowers violence that rings and the hummingbirds will be no building these

structures that were terrible california believe in the big truth is when people come with a webcam to live within your power to your control make your peace of california looked like california riots lower water use down providing habitat cover in areas et cetera for birds when we do that we benefit even more than the environment or say and that if we have a little piece of nature we can interact with it and connect on a regular basis just this connection is something that makes our life there you almost eliminated generally lessons plans are very efficient getting nutrients up or their roots are they're tuned into this climate zone this weather pattern the soils they don't need all the inputs the ornamental plants from other parts of world mike evans bends over a young plant sporting

bold yellow flowers their fuzzy centers bursting up with the sun roof of iowa bush poppy the interim economists agree is on the channel islands when the lawyer says that's no lie the more than twenty years there are probably more demand than because the supply is getting better that the man is giving prayers well said twenty years ago there was this cycle that was vicious in architects and planners claimed that they would like to use native plants but no one was growing them at scale large enough to supply those jobs and the big growers they claimed they did not for native plants because no one would flip them on the plant one of the roles that we play it as we came in and this are drawn the pope it adds at least twenty percent a year very consistent

that have to do a lot of factors in the population in southern california burned a lot of the development in the housing and the building is occurring now ordering native areas and as a result the builders are required to use native plants in the buffer zone as the interface and the native community is a big irony indeed tree of life self may be upgraded in the not so distant future mike evans says the land the newish releases from rancho mission viejo was recently re zone for commercial and residential development in san juan capistrano will society all at nine point three kpcc