Articles: Gardening and Landscaping with California Native Plants
Whether you are a beginner or an expert, these links and PDFs are for you: they offer information, expert advice and design ideas as well as plant information on a variety of topics. Whether it is a brochure about a particular plant or ideas on how to remove an over-thirsty lawn, look here for specific information on gardening.
Living in such a unique area we feel compelled to share information and pool knowledge. Please review these materials and download the PDFs as needed. If you have any ideas for further research or more brochures, please send an email to gardening@cnpssd.org
Butterfly Larval Food Plants San Diego (Gordon Pratt, PDF)
Experiments on When and How to Sow Native Annual Wildflowers (Lee Gordon, PDF)
The Fragrant Native Garden (Las Pilitas Nursery)
Gardening with Dogs (Theodore Payne Foundation)
General Statement on Ants (Greg Rubin, PDF)
Lawn Removal (Greg Rubin and Garden Committee, PDF)
Parking Strip Option 1 (Morgan Vondrak and Garden Committee, PDF)
Parking Strip Option 2 (Morgan Vondrak, Greg Rubin and Garden Committee, PDF)
Slope Planting (Jeremy Sison and Garden Committee PDF)
Some Native Seeds Require Sun to Germinate (Lee Gordon, PDF)
Ten (Easy to Grow) Native Plants for a California Garden (Las Pilitas Nursery)
Watering Native Plants (Tree of Life Nursery)