In today’s parlance, an “Ocean-Friendly” Garden is one that greatly reduces or eliminates the negative environmental effects of our grass lawns and gardens full of flowering plants from other areas with wetter climates. Several major local environmental organizations and public agencies have been subsidizing homeowner efforts to create gardens that

BCR’s striking mural “Rivers of the World” was renovated in April, 2015, to reverse the effects of  time and weather, scrapes by maintenance vehicles, and (unfortunately) graffiti and damage by other passers-by. The work took over a week, including wall preparation, actual painting by many community volunteers under the guidance