It's the GRAND REVEAL in La Jolla! Tropical Succulent Garden. 

Those sunset pebbles are absolutely beautiful especially when wet! Fabulous.

Those BUTTONS. In the rain- they are so stunning. Wow!!!

I love the birds of paradise. Clean them up, feed, and keep them.

We just moved to a new Central California Coast home, and there are 2 massive (5’ tall, 4’ wide at the base, 6’ wide at mid-foliage) bird of paradise shrubs that look terrible, are in the wrong place, and that haven’t been maintained in what looks like FOREVER, so we’re having them removed by someone who wants them for their landscaping. Thankfully, they have experience removing them, so that’s a big win for us AND them. I’ll get ONE cutting/root wad from them and put it in a container as an homage to the home’s history.

Since you will be keeping the lush plants I would keep the bird of paradise for repitition. Looks awesome Laura!

I love the birds of paradise. Please keep them :)

Love the big round boulders with the river rock and pebbles. Really works with the style of the house. Love what you have done on phase one ❤️

Looks beautiful! Love the rock/buttons and love birds! One of my favorites, reminds me of the beach.

Love it. The rain gives a special touch.

Such a peaceful reveal 😅, loved the rain, the silence and the end result. You truly are an amazing artist. ❤

The driveway corner is gorgeous. And all the walkway and planter. The house and everything you've done is wonderful, and love mixing it with the tropicals. I'd say yes to the Birds (a classic) can't think of San Diego County without remembering them. Maybe halve off the front towards the street and plant a nice neat cover for the bottom. And maybe some Dwarf Birds here and there for color and continuity. 🎉

Beautiful job, Laura. I wasn't sure I was going to like the type of rocks & pebbles the homeowner had selected for the landscape & topdressing, but as you have said previously, it's good to try new things and this certainly is true in this installation. Regarding phase 2, I think you should remove the BoPs from the area you will be working on, only because you will be leaving that adjacent area in front alone and it already has BoPs in it. Your beautiful tapestries I think would look much better uninterrupted by BoPs. I love your idea for blowing out the private back patio with more tropicals (perhaps you can divide and rehome some of the BoPs from the front there)! Can't wait to see that fountain installed!

Beautiful installation and I vote yes for the Birds of Paradise. Nice job.

I think the bird of paradise is pretty. The shape of the leaves and the blooms are so neat and angular.

Perfect pairing of tropical and desert plants ! Phenomenal picture perfect landscape display of plants👏👏👏!

Congrats on the success of no water pooling. I like the smooth stones. They bring in some softness and things seem more touchable. Looking forward to phase two.

I love the birds if they are tidy. I have one in my backyard by the pool.

Wow! 🤩 I think my new favorite! Outstanding! The walkway! The metal container! Love it all!

Look great! That schefflera tree could use some orchids tied to the branches.

Wow, I didn’t think the rocks would work, I was wrong it looks amazing!

wow, another gorgeous stroke of LE'magic! what at first had seemed to me daunting bordering on hopeless has been pulled together with incredible results .. amazing, as evra!

The button pebbles give a beautiful contrast against the hardscape and the color of the house🧡 I vote to keep the bird of paradise! I personally love bird of paradise but cannot have here in zone 8. I think these plants need to be divided every three or five years, sort of like hostas and agapanthus do. Beautiful grand revel 🙌🏻 Laura, thank you!

I like Birds of Paradise in other peoples yards😂 I can remember my parents in the early 70's having to tie a rope around one in our yard and pulling it out with the car... it was awful! Anyway... beautiful property and as always, you've added your magic touch. i think the owner made a beautiful decision with the beach pebble and the subdued boulders. Can't wait to see the other phases completed😁

I finished watching day 3, refreshed the page, and the grand reveal popped up. Ask, and you shall receive! Can't wait to see the finished installation; it's always fun when you work on something a little different.

Ge trid of the Birds!! Phase 2 definitely needs done!

Wow, nothing stops you ☺️. It really stands out now, so beautiful.

If it was my yard, the birds of paradise would be the first to go. They are like weeds to me. The jasmine I can get on board with because at least it smells amazing!

Another beautiful garden Laura!! I think the owners should get rid of the jasmine on the beautiful iron fence line and do tapestry below. I do love bird of paradise but in a different area, use as a back drop not front and center. Love the rock choice by the clients, you said you had not worked with it before and it came out spectacular!! Can’t wait to see phase 2!

Laura, I love that you took on new medium (round rocks) and experimented with them - and it worked!!! I think this might be one of my fave installations in a while. Bird of Paradise - I really like them in the right spot. But they do need to be cut back/ cleaned up at the end of each winter to give space for the new growth.

I think the birds are beautiful, and when you guys finish that phase it will look SPECTACULAR🐦

Love your (team) work!! 🌾Bird of paradise; its pretty but I agree with you, bottoms are always messy. Keep them, perhaps surround them with a half round metal trim 12" h metal, will age gracefully and hopefully contain them. Beautiful work!

Love it. Really excited to see what you do with the Tropicals. I’ve never seen you do anything other than succulents.

Good thing it was raining, first because it washed everything off and it looks good, and second because you can see where/if there’s pooling. I’m partial to keeping the birds, mostly because I like how weird the flowers are. So, they should probably go. 😂 Beautiful reveal with phase one though.

Looks amazing 🤩 as always! Y’all always do such beautiful work. As for the birds of paradise, I love them because I’m in Texas and they give me California vibes. I recently got me one and I’m hoping I can get it to bloom and live here in dang Texas 😂 🙏🏼 without burning or freezing 🙏🏼

Yes on the birds…cleaned up!

Love the black pots❤

I didn’t think i would like the button top over, but I DO!!

There’s just something about this yard. I love what you did! The one plant per pot is perfect! They live in La Jolla, schedule phase 2 for April. Kick the Birds to someone else’s garden! Love the colors of the soft succulents! The buttons are fantastic! ❤

I love the birds

Hey Laura. Very nice white Range rover you got. Have you though of adding Gpysum to clay soil. It break clay and improve drainage. Bird of paradise, use as background plant. And layer with smaller plant in front of it to hide the bottom half of it.

Just stunning, especially the flagstone pathway. Also, your planter.

Bird of Paradise plants do require a ton of maintenance to keep their beautiful appearance. That said, once they are happy, they continue to grow to epic proportion and the blooms become overwhelmingly stunning for those of us who are visual people. Sometimes just one is enough to become the stunner of the street corner! That's my personal experience with this plant. They do happen to love a daily grooming and a good talking to. I did find that sunburn and wind was their enemy and Hummingbirds were their friends.

Absolutely gorgeous. Love how shiny everything is in the rain...

This is one of my favorites you've shown--wonderful assortment and arrangement.

This looks great! At first, I didn’t know how the rock choice would turn out, but I think it’s amazing!!

Such a wonderful job! Love it! You and your crew are awesome! The birds are gorgeous and actually fit the setting perfectly, but whatever you decide, l know you'll make it spectacular 😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤

Love this show....I live on Canadian boarder Okanogan area....sad because too cold for succulents...I do have a few in the house.

beautiful Laura!

Always happy when you remove the “Birds” in an installation. My parents had a bunch. The roots were so invasive that they got under their garden wall and knocked it over.

I love (LOVE) bird of paradise. But then, I'm from a decidedly not tropical area, so the novelty factor is high. Maybe you could stage some strategic boulders and/or pots around them to hide the base? Build up a small mounded berm and plant in front of them for some extra height? I'll endorse any strategy you use to keep the bird of paradise!

Love it 😊😊😊

I’d leave the birds. Great job!!

Awesome 👍

Great job

I mean can just pile some of those larger pebble rock up against the bird of paradise to cover the base it's only like 3 inches of ugly anyways. Could even throw down a few pieces of black rubble lava rock around it too with the larger pebble rocks between. Would kinda contain and frame it. She should grab some of the jasmine of the variety she likes and plant in those empty spaces now for it to take over then she can in a year cut out all the older wood plants that aren't as full at the base anymore. A jasmine sambac variety would be nice since it can bloom all the time if temps are nice and are the best fragrant jasmine. Could also work on replacing it with stephanotis vine they have bigger fat leaves that are more durable and last long and have clusters of jasmine fragrant flowers and branch and fill out very easily. But also easy to maintain and little cleanup because of the big fat leaves.

You could plant some jade or another thick succulent \ tapestry near the bird of paradise to hide the unsightly base. Those birds of paradise actually look much nicer than what i normally see (I am local in san diego)

Looks gorgeous as usual Laura and team. Love the slow camera moves. Haven't watched you in awhile. Take care.

Absolutely glorious

I love birds of paradise plants. However I am from South Africa and they are indiginous to my country, so maybe I am biaised. The same goes for agapanthus and a lot of the aloes and rare succulents.

It feels strange that all the gardens are so open. Any stranger can enter your property, even walk into your back yard😮No real fence or barrier to keep strangers out. It does not feel right. I would not feel safe or comfortable with a property with no concrete fence or devils fork fence in the front of the property and then I notice there are no burglar bars on the windows or security gate on the sliding doors. I live in South Africa and when I watch these garden videos I wonder how you can live like that? It would freak me out!! 😂Thank you for the video and God bless! Enjoy your Passover weekend! ❤

I have succulents in the front and tropicals in the back as well ... Mangave Kaleidoscope mixes well with tropicals ... great color, handles the water fine and grows slower (doesn't bloom quickly) if shaded by taller plants or fencing.

Looks beautiful!

Keep the birds and maybe cover the root mess behind some small boulders?

The Birds have intriguing blooms and leaves but are high maintenance if you want them to look clean. Lots of deadheading spent blooms and then they grow and clump. Snails just love them. For my taste, succulents are better. Dinner plate aeonium and agave attenuata would be a nicer display for my taste and less maintenance.

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I like birds of paradise

I was not prepared for the beauty of the rocks when wet! The water is flowing from that drain in the front not down into it. It's working as intended.

I ditched the Bird of Paradise I had in my backyard--it's common and I wanted to stop using orangey colors back there so replaced it with jade plant.

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Keep birds 🕊️

No birds! It's all about the Agaves, Aloes, Cacti and Succulents! Not a fan on the Jasmine, the railing is ornate and looks great - just paint it blue to match the house trim. :)

Save the Birds!!!

Ax the birds!

Leave the bird of paradise, for cohesion to the section you are leaving.

Can you not mulch heavy or under plant the bird of paradise

Keep the birds (they’re LA’s city flower!), but plant some low succulents around their bases, to hide the unattractive bottoms.

Get rid of the agapanthus (it is the devil) and keep the Birds to tie in to the existing gardens you are keeping.

Can bird of paradise be thinned out & scaled back? I think there’s just too many, too much of a good thing just isn’t that good!

Get leafless/bladeless birds of paradise. Not nearly as messy looking.

I think that I would get rid of the bird of paradise.

Take that " jasmine " out and replace it with "stephanotis " jasmine and" pink star " jasmine ... the foliage is much prettier than what's there now Or replace it with a hedge of sweet romance lavander ... her railing is too pretty to be covered up in my opinion " color blaze " choleus would be amazing in the back yard!

What is the obsession with all those agapanthus?!? Omw so many, and going to replant them in the back? They just attract snails 🐌 🙄 and most of the year they are so boring 😂😂

The bird of paradise is the worse plant on the planet. Don't plant it. Period.

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