Featuring The California Native Gardens of East San Diego County

Tickets are $30 until April 8, 2022, and $35 door tickets available only at the Water Conservation Garden on April 9.

Spend the day exploring and learning from these beautiful native gardens located in the Mount Helix/La Mesa, Allied Gardens, Santee, and other East County areas. This year’s featured gardens illustrate a variety of habitat plants, dry streambed bioswales, pool-to-pond conversion, water catchment devices, slope gardens, charming water features, bridges, sculptures and more. Be inspired this Spring!

The Water Conservation Garden will be showcasing two different native plant habitats and a seasonal bioswale. While you are there, join the fun with the Ms. Smarty-Plants’™ presentation, “Wings at Work”- about butterflies as pollinators, native plant painting demonstrations by artist Marjorie Pezzoli, CNPS book and seed sales and native plant sales. Day of ticket sale will be at this location only.

Speaker: Carol Bornstein, Author and Director of the Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

WATCH THE RECORDING THROUGH OCTOBER 15 ON YOUTUBE

TWO WAYS TO WATCH

1) Zoom: To watch the presentation on your computer or phone via Zoom you must register in advance at this link. Registration on Zoom has a capacity so register now for the best ‘seats’. You do not need a Zoom account to register or watch the presentation. 

Register for the presentation: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hh70zNR1S8iHcEJjn8G7ZQ

2) Facebook: If you want to watch the presentation without registration it will be live streamed to CNPS-San Diego Chapter’s Facebook page beginning at 7:00pm. There is no limit to participants viewing the presentation on Facebook.

CNPS-San Diego Chapter Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/events/1341379282923265

Mark yourself as Going or Interested and you will receive a Facebook notification and link on your account to the live stream.

Questions for the presenters will be selected by a moderator from the chat and comment sections of both Zoom and Facebook.

DESCRIPTION

Landscape professionals and home gardeners have the power to make a difference in conserving or restoring biodiversity by creating habitat for wildlife in urban areas. Residential, commercial, and public spaces are increasingly dedicated to this rewarding and vital endeavor to support birds, beneficial insects, and other wild creatures whose natural habitats are threatened by development, pollution, toxic chemicals, and the unchecked spread of invasive species. This presentation features some of the best California native plants for Southern California gardens along with equally important ideas for sustainably designing and tending these spaces.

Lucy Warren, author and Native Garden Committee member, will moderate questions.

BIO

Carol Bornstein is former Director of Living Collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where she oversaw development and care of the museum’s 3.5-acre Nature Gardens. For nearly 30 years, she was horticulturist at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Carol is co-author of the award-winning California Native Plants for the Garden and Reimagining the California Lawn. She has selected and introduced several popular cultivars for California gardens, including Verbena lilacina ‘De La Mina’ and Corethrogyne filaginifolia ‘Silver Carpet’ and she continues to share her knowledge of plants native to California and other mediterranean climate regions through her teaching, writing, and design work.

Manzanita berries photo: Carol Bornstein

PURCHASE CAROL’S BOOK “California Native Plants for the Garden”: https://www.canativeseeds.com/product/california-native-plants-for-the-garden/933

Follow this recorded, self-guided virtual tour of 5 gardens in East County. As a viewer, you can click on areas of the garden to learn about the plants, see before/after photos, and more. Included on the tour:

• Little Pond-La Mesa, Owner: Judie Lincer

• Harrod's Hideaway, Owner: Caroline & Mike Harrod

• Quiet Earth Sanctuary, Owner: Carol & Steve Gross

• Edge Effect, Owner: Matt & Lauren Kirkpatrick

• Water Conservation Garden, COMING SOON

The recording will make its debut beginning at 10AM, April 24 on this page.

WATCH THE RECORDED FACEBOOK LIVE PRESENTATION

WATCH THE RECORDING ON YOUTUBE

SPEAKER: Don Rideout, Native Plant Gardener

TWO WAYS TO WATCH

1) Zoom: To watch the presentation on your computer or phone via Zoom you must register in advance at this link. Registration on Zoom has a capacity so register now for the best ‘seats’. You do not need a Zoom account to register or watch the presentation. 

Register for the presentation: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_In_wRWz_S2-4pV3ypsqX2w

2) Facebook: If you want to watch the presentation without registration it will be live streamed to CNPS-San Diego Chapter’s Facebook page beginning at 7:00pm. There is no limit to participants viewing the presentation on Facebook.

CNPS-San Diego Chapter Facebook Page: facebook.com/cnpssd

Questions for the presenters will be selected by a moderator from the chat and comment sections of both Zoom and Facebook.

DESCRIPTION

Don will a present a virtual tour of his garden that is arranged in five sections representing different geographic and habitat zones - Baja, San Diego Chaparral, Channel Islands, Pond, and Shade.

BIO

Don Rideout was born and raised in Ventura County and worked there for many years. He moved to Encinitas in 1988 and worked for the city of Carlsbad for 17 years. He is most proud of his work on the city's multi-habitat conservation plan which was approved in 2004. Don retired as soon as possible after that, changing his focus to gardening at home and volunteering at Batiquitos Lagoon and Anza-Borrego State Park. In 2008 a group at Anza-Borrego started a Botany Society to help protect the flora of the park and to educate the public about it. He began gardening with native plants in 1995, and some of those plants have survived since then. In 2014 Don overhauled the garden, creating 5 habitat zones and adding many new plants. His goal is to maximize the value of the garden for local wildlife and for his own enjoyment.

All photos: Don Rideout

with Diane & Miranda Kennedy, Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture

We’ll explore how native plants are integral to any landscape, not just because of their drought tolerance, but because of their communication skills. We’ll also see how using permaculture practices when planting ensure native plant survival.

Diane and Miranda Kennedy of Finch Frolic Garden Permaculture. Diane is a former SDC Senior Park Ranger and active with the Fallbrook Land Conservancy’s Native Plant Restoration Team. Miranda has a degree in Wildlife Conservation and is a Board member with the FLC. Together they teach permaculture through tours of their food forest, consultations, lectures and via www.vegetariat.com and Finch Frolic Facebook.

6:30pm-7pm: NATIVES FOR NOVICES: 

Alden Hough is a Permaculture Designer and Educator, and Program Director of Non-Profit organization Sky Mountain Permaculture in Escondido, where he teaches people how regenerate the Earth and live more sustainable lives. He has created a seven-acre rainwater harvesting demonstration site to show people how to “first plant the water”. Alden graduated from the Center for Agro-Ecology and Sustainable Food Systems program and has a Geology degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

7:00pm-7:30pm: A time for discussion, camaraderie, visiting, and enjoying the sales table.

7:30pm: FEATURED PRESENTATION