How a single worker keeps one of Calif.'s most beautiful restaurants alive - 600 plants [View all]

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see photos at the link below. the plants are beautiful.



How a single worker keeps one of Calif.'s most beautiful restaurants alive
600 plants rise from 'the ruins of an ancient temple'

Early every Tuesday morning, typically before 6 a.m., Miguel Lopez quietly creaks open the back door of a building in Los Angeles and steps inside to another world.

“The challenge here is to control the light and the water,” he says. For the next six or seven hours, he’ll tend to the more than 600 plants that line the dining room, bar and two private dining spaces of ethereal Hollywood restaurant Meteora. Throughout his rounds, Lopez makes sure that each of the countless plant varieties gets enough love and attention to thrive.

“Not all of the plants have the same needs,” he says.

Anticipating needs and challenges is just part of Lopez’s job, overseeing plant care for some of the wealthiest homes in California, tucked away in communities like Beverly Hills and Bel-Air. He’s picked up some retail work in the past dozen years, too, including this transformative restaurant on Melrose with the spacey name.

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/meteora-restaurant-hollywood-jordan-kahn-plants-19495253.php