FormLA Landscaping

FormLA Landscaping We believe LA's authentic lush, leafy beauty can save LA - so we are bringing it! Experience our public gardens year round!

FormLA Landscaping is transforming Los Angeles, one lush, lovely, optimally sustainable landscape at a time. In providing comprehensive, optimally sustainable design+build and maintenance services, we aim to provide you and LA with greater resilience. See our residential gardens on the Theodore Payne Foundation Native Plant Garden Tour and the Pacific Palisades Garden Tour. They include:
The New L

ook for LA in the Center Circle at Descanso Gardens,
The Authentic Foothill Gardens of Sierra Madre City Hall, and
the Shotgun House Coastal Garden at the Santa Monica Conservancy's Preservation Resource Center.

It’s not a competition! The landscaping strategies that enhance environmental heath, can also create historically releva...
05/29/2026

It’s not a competition! The landscaping strategies that enhance environmental heath, can also create historically relevant curb appeal, and improve wildfire safety too. Wild, isn’t it? Landscapes are powerful.

Join us as Izumi Tanaka interviews our Cassy Aoyagi and JT Wilkinson about this synchronicity at the first Regional Restoration Expo June 13th at 11:00 am.

Expo hosts and have curated a high impact array of speakers that include CEO Adrian Scott Fine and Frances Anderton. Visit their profiles for more information.

Who: All are welcome!

Where: Blinn House, Pasadena

When: Saturday, June 13, 10 am - 5 pm

Hope to see you there! 🌸🏡🌳

Photo: The Lee’s historic mid-century garden near Poppy Hill, captured by in 2023.



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05/28/2026

We’re so grateful to our lovely client for including us in the Golden Arrow Award celebration! pasadena_beautiful did so much more than honor the beauty of Pasadena gardens this year. They honored the beauty and resilience of the Pasadena community.

The winners, every one, completely stole our hearts. So many spoke to thinking of their neighbors as stakeholders considered as they designed their gardens. Hard to imagine anything more beautiful 🥹🦋💓

Thank you for the inspiration, hope, connection, and uplifting experience 💐

West Pasadena rolls along one of LA’s natural treasures — the lush, leafy habitat of the Arroyo Secco. In the past year ...
05/27/2026

West Pasadena rolls along one of LA’s natural treasures — the lush, leafy habitat of the Arroyo Secco. In the past year and a half, four new National Fire Protection Association Firewise Communities have formed to protect this habitat as well residents, homes, and insurability.

Our own will join Chief Chad Augustin, ’s regional director Gabriel Albarian, and Executive Director Daniel Rossman to discuss homeowners’ agency in community preparedness.

WPRA has also curated a long list of helpful organizations who will be onsite, including , , and so many more!

We look forward to seeing our West Pasadena friends there!

05/24/2026

LA is beginning to try on her summer fits - and what sundress turns more heads than buckwheats?

We’re seeing hillsides of wild California Buckwheat along the 2 and 210, and our St.Catherine’s is dressing Foothill Blvd. in lace. Where are you seeing their early blooms?

05/23/2026

Heading to the nursery this weekend? Plant choice will make a substantial difference in the day to day maintenance your garden needs.

Let’s look at a couple low growing plants with look-alike, evergreen foliage: echeveria and California native Seaside Daisy.

Succulents, like echeveria, are known for retaining hydration and low maintenance needs. Yet they do tend to thatch as they grow, filling with dead material. They need attention to stay structured and free from dead material.

Contrast that with blooming succulent look-alike Seaside Daisy. All she needs to keep blooming for you and the bees is a little deadheading now and again.

05/23/2026

LA is beginning to try on her summer fits - and what sundress turns more heads than buckwheats?

05/20/2026

Bea Schumacher’s pasadena_beautiful award-winning garden stops traffic. It also stops embers!

You might recognize Bea and her back garden from the .arts.group’s Art of the Garden Tour or ’s Pasadena Open Days. Visitors enjoyed its sophisticated flow, intoxicating fragrance, multiplicity of entertainment spaces… and that tree canopy!

Post renovation, the garden (and home) stay palpably cooler. That’s the result of low-litter tree selection, placement and maintenance. Clusters of water wise California and South African native foliage amplify the cooling impact.

Bea and her husband Tom maintain the space themselves. The design, plant selection, and careful spacing and placement make it easy. That gives them curb appeal and peace of mind as others hustle to meet brush clearance deadlines.

See more of the space and Bea in linked reels and on TV.

05/15/2026

Sunset Magazine called Sunland-Tujunga “vibie.” We certainly are! And getting ever more so ✌️💐💪🪏

As we look at the ever-blooming beauty of our expanding habitat corridor, every Foothill Blvd. flower reminds us of a friend who has turned dreams into reality. ( 🌸🌻)

We’re especially grateful to for adopting the median at Pali and Foothill Blvd, the Tujunga Garden of Welcome and Inclusion. We’ve made so many new friends as and , and all dug in and brought their own beautiful vibes to the blooms!

Tomorrow, Saturday May 16th, we’ll expand Tujunga’s Resilience and Inclusion, adding more donated drip irrigation. Join us to learn installation tips from Kirk Aoyagi, meet wonderful people, or just touch grass (okay dirt 🙃). We’ll be so happy to accomplish something beautiful with you!

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05/08/2026

Can we show you EVEN MORE May blooms? It’s just a sample. It’s impossible to cover the full glory of May in LA - or even of the native habitat foliage at the Wildfire Learning Center in Calabasas.

These blooms have special meaning at the WLC. While there is no fire proof plant, we have good reasons for selecting these lovelies for gardens in high fire severity zones. Here are a few of them:

🦋 Wildfire zones are wildlife zones - these offer habitat

🦋 High heat and low water challenge but don’t kill them

🦋 They tolerate irrigation and human interaction

🦋 Varied heights and widths brings beauty and safety

🦋 They tend to be low-litter and low-maintenance

What do you think? Would you like to see them outside of your windows? No need to commit now! Come meet them in person with and May 16th!

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05/06/2026

Hawks. Bluebirds. Deer. We see them each time we visit the Wildfire Leaning Center! It’s no wonder, really. They’re drawn to the habitat carefully curated by LA County Fire Department foresters, local and volunteers, as well as our teams.

Join us all May 16th to revel in this lush, leafy, tree-full space. Explore new patios and walkways. Meet the new trees and meadow grasses. Delight in spring blooms. Each feature, all foliage, selected, spaced and placed to demonstrate idyllic defensible space.

What’s new? See the linked reel to see the original arson grass meadow transform as we:

🌳 Replace the original arson grass meadows

🌳 Add tree canopy

🌳 Create ideal under-oak environments

🌳 Grow hyper-local native foliage

🌳 Attract butterflies and birds

🌳 Add ways to explore and enjoy it all!

We hope to see you out among the blooms 🦋🌸🌳🦌

05/06/2026

More than Monkey Flowers bloom in May… but if it were just the Monkeys? We might be okay with that too!

You’ll meet plenty of Monkeys on LA’s coastal and foothill trails in spring. We love them wild! We also find them to be fun companions, adaptable enough to play in (drip!) irrigated gardens.

Photos: Captured in our garden from the foothills to the beach by

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