Favorite Tools
LA Native Plant Source
Garden trowel
Bare hands are great gardening tools since much native foliage has textures that are wonderful to touch. The Indian mallow leaves are soft like velvet while the delightful scents of native sage will linger on your hands.
My soil knife and Cobra for fine-tuned weeding. FormLA is my backup! They do the heavy lifting.
A narrow trowel with a red handle fading to pink. Easy to use to loosen soil, remove weeds, or transplant self-seeded natives. Easy to find because the handle is visible wherever I stuck the trowel after tending the garden. We have two of them.
My metal bucket full of clanging tools. It reminds me of Kate, the character in the Mysterious Benedict Society, who can fix anything.
AM Leonard Hori Hori soil knife and Felco 2 bypass pruners; often I keep them in the house so I don’t waste time walking to the garage when I need to alter something.
