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.

06/05/2026

Happening now! Come on out :)

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 pasadena_beautiful , , and so many more!

When: Wednesday, June 4, 5:30-8:30 pm

Where: Student Center, Marantha High School, Pasadena

Who: WPRA welcomes all interested community 💚

Photo: Cassy Aoyagi in the Aoyagi Lab, 2019, by

06/03/2026

The Taylors replaced their turf grass as the trend started, opting for a meadow in front. It helped them achieve an elevated aesthetic that respected the look and feel of their La Canada neighborhood as a whole.

They earned immediate rewards - and awards. La Canada Valley Beautiful recognized their lush, leafy curb appeal - long before the certified habitat grew to reach its full gorgeousness! The city recognized their water savings too.

The Taylors noted even better results… they found themselves spending more and more time outside in the garden. Not working. Reading. Chatting. Entertaining. Wandering. They eventually added a window for the joy of more back-garden views from inside.

In 2022, they updated their space again after an presentation on the impact of ember resistance around the home. Here too, they found immediate, unexpected benefits to the small adaptations they made. It became easier to maintain the home. There was a new peace of mind.

When asked to evacuate in January 2025, they recognized an even greater gain. Time. They popped the pups in the car and left. No hesitation. No last minute checklist. They knew they were ready. Set. All they had to do was go.

Surprised? Many Angelenos expect deep sacrifice is necessary for water savings. Fire safety. Wildlife protection. Enjoyment. The truth is the right landscapes can create an upward spiral for all these basic needs.

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.



Which landscape outcome interests you most?

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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