In a hot L.A. neighborhood full of brown lawns, his DIY native plant garden thrives July 17, 2024 Home Explore The Naturalist's Journal In a hot L.A. neighborhood full of brown lawns, his DIY native plant garden thrives Share FacebookTwitterEmail The temperature was in the 90s in West Hills, but that didn’t deter an astonishing number of monarch butterflies, hummingbirds and bees from feeding on the California-friendly plants — sages, salvias and flowering milkweed — in Eric Augusztiny’s front yard.
