Lee Haines Garden of Native Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains

On latimes.com today:
A Living Tribute to a Green Thumb

Turns our we know one of the principals: the garden’s “founder” credits “a former local city engineering official, Elroy Kipkey (sic), with suggesting that the streambed running through his lot at 28328 Agoura Road [where he was planning to build his company’s headquarters] be preserved.…” Elroy is also a former city engineer in La Cañada.