Archive of posts tagged garden
Finding California Native Plants For Your Garden
I recently visited Botanical Garden at Berkeley with some friends from the East Coast. The Botanical Garden is a 34-acre research garden and a living museum. It is famous for its diverse collections of plants and many of them rare and endangered. There are nine major geographic regions with emphasis on plants from Mediterranean climates, […]
Saving Water With Native Gardens
It was a beautiful Sunday on May 5th for the ninth annual Bringing Back the Native Garden Tour organized by Kathy Kramer, a recent Jefferson Award winner for outstanding public and community service. There were 43 native gardens on tour this year. Two key qualifications for the native garden tour are 1) the garden contains […]