Category: Gardening Tips & Tricks

Details: California’s native plants offer nearly limitless uses in your residential garden, from creating wildlife-attracting, naturalistic landscapes to cottage, contemporary or traditional style spaces. Learn the steps professional designers use to ensure that the finished garden is beautiful, useful, and sustainable. Pricing: Adults: $45 Students and members: $30 About the instructor: For 22 years, Billy…

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Details: For over 60 years, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden has been selecting and introducing exceptional California native cultivars to beautify gardens and landscapes. Whether the product of rigorous breeding efforts or chance discoveries made in the field, these Santa Barbara Botanic Garden introductions are highly desirable for the wealth of forms, colors, and textures they…

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Details: Learn more about the process of pollination and the major pollinators; beneficial insects, bees , hummingbirds, butterflies and moths from Richard Merrill, current Garden docent and Cabrillo Community College faculty emeritus. Attendees will learn how the different colors, shapes and sizes of flowers attract their specific pollinators. There will be a presentation of garden-worthy…

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Details: Spring may be near, but the rainy season isn’t over just yet. This means you still have time to incorporate California-native plants into your home garden. To support you in creating thriving backyard habitats, the Garden is loading up our nursery inventory once again. Before the last rains come, you’ll have access to a…

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Details: Get to know the California native plants in your yard! This class will help you learn and refine your plant identification skills as we go over the characteristics that unite some of the most commonly found plant families in backyards, nurseries, and at the Garden! Living Collections Curator, Christina Varnava, will show you how…

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