The End of Hissing Lawns – Going Native in California
How to jettison the fashionable hissing summer lawn for a thriving native garden in the hills of Southern California
Author: Gautam Raja
Gautam Raja is a Bangalore boy now living in the town of Azusa in the Greater Los Angeles Area. He is a playwright and has worked as a feature journalist. Having turned his audiophile hobby into a career (of sorts), he is currently a writer for Upscale Audio, a well-known high-end retailer.
Gautam has happy memories of bird-watching as a child on his family’s Whitefield farm, armed with his mother’s binoculars and, of course, The Book by Salim Ali. He has college stories about Beej and is easily bribed with food.