Home & Garden
Terremoto’s David Godshall, Dawn Wang, and Diego Lopez Answer Our Burning Questions
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David: Filter or weed fabric is an entire industry that, if I could, I would delete with the push of a button. Weeds go through it, it’s plastic, you always see it (and it’s ugly), and it impairs the ability of insects or worms to move through soil horizons, and that seems incredibly unkind.
Dawn: Impervious surfaces in general! We should really stop pouring concrete.
Old wives’ tale gardening trick that actually works:
Dawn: I talk and sing to my plants at home, and they’re happy.
Diego: Love your plants!
Favorite gardening hack:
Dawn: Sticking my finger in the soil seems to answer a lot of my client’s questions.
David: I love that answer, Dawn! I have a bathtub in my garden and I use it to water my Sycamore Trees (which like a bit of water). Feels like a solid hack to me.
Diego: Hire Carmen Orozco of Barranca Landscape. Everything comes out beautifully.
Every garden needs a…
Diego: A low-tech water fountain for birds and insects.
Dawn: A birdbath!
David: Well, I don’t want to ruin this, so I will also say birdbath, but it’s true—inviting wildlife into your garden is the ultimate baller move.
Favorite hardscaping material:
Dawn: Reclaimed brick! The classics never go out of style.
Diego: Urbanite (broken concrete). We’re increasingly trying to use recycled materials in our projects and urbanite transcends aesthetic worlds in a really cool way. We’re trying to learn how to build mostly native, spiritually Japanese gardens out of trash—that’s one of the present goals of the office.
Go-to gardening outfit:
Dawn: My old Terremoto shirt.
David: I have a flap hat that protects my red neck from getting even redder, and when I put it on and put glasses on, I go into GARDEN BEAST MODE.
On your wishlist:
Dawn: Owning a fucking house someday hopefully.
David: A small cabin in the woods next to a creek. Ideally with no cell reception.
Favorite nursery, plant shop, or seed company:
David: Absolutely shameless plug alert, but Plant Material! It’s our Los Angeles nursery with three shops and an ecological point of view. And, of course, shout out to Theodore Payne and Artemisia Nursery. It’s a big city and we’re trying to push it in an environmentally positive direction together, which is lovely.
Dawn: N-K Bonsai Tree Nursery.
Diego: Plant Material!
David: Hey, Diego, you’re getting a raise—awesome answer!
Not-to-be-missed public garden/park/botanical garden:
Diego: Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo’s house in Mexico City.
David: California Scenario shreds. The Test Plots in Elysian Park (and everywhere) are a constant source of joy for me.
The REAL reason you garden:
Dawn: Mental health!
David: Yeah, kinda also mental health and well-being.
Diego: Community and bonding, with co-workers and soil.
Thank you, David, Dawn, and Diego! If you want to see what the team is up to, follow them @terremoto_landscape.
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