BOT 60 — Designing Your California Native Plant Garden
Summer
Tuesdays
7:00—8:50 pm
Date(s)
Jun 23—Jul 21
5 weeks
Drop By
Jul 6
2 Units
Fees
$435
Limit
30
Open
Please Note: Class sessions: 5 Tuesdays, June 23 – July 21, 7:00 – 8:50 pm. Field trips: Saturdays, July 11 and July 18, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm.
Summer is a perfect time to plan your California native plant garden, and this course will take us on the path from site assessment to master plan. In the course, students will learn how to bring the natural beauty of our native flora into the landscape. We will explore the various types of native plants, from tree to annual, and—based on their natural habitat—the conditions in which they grow best. Students will come to know how native plants adapt their form, color, and size to best serve their function in nature and how we can employ these strategies in our own successful gardens. By the end of the course, students will be able to choose plants that attract specific wildlife, go well under oaks, or address many other goals and conditions commonly found in the world of gardening. Students will be well on their way to welcoming autumn, the best season to shop for and install native plants.
The course includes Saturday field trips to exemplary local native plant and botanic gardens.
Peigi Duvall, Landscape Designer
Peigi Duvall owns the Bay Area landscape design prac- tice Indig Design, specializing in indigenous flora of the Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas. She was the state horticulture program director for the California Native Plant Society, and her garden designs have been featured on the annual Going Native Garden Tour. She is a certified professional member of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and a Bay-Friendly Qualified Landscape Professional.Textbooks for this course:
(Required) Carol Bornstein, David Fross, and Bart O’Brien, California Native Plants for the Garden, 1st Edition (ISBN 9780962850585)
(Recommended) Helen Popper, California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide (ISBN 978-0-520-26535-6)
(Recommended) Helen Popper, California Native Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide (ISBN 978-0-520-26535-6)