Planting and Maintaining California Natives and Edibles
March 4 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am
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California Native plants are the perfect choice for our San Diego climate, and incorporating edibles into the landscape is a no brainer. But many people don’t know how to maintain these easy plants.
In this workshop you will learn:
- Why California native plants really are the easiest for your pocket book and your landscape
- How you can help change the climate in your own backyard
- How to select the right kind of native plants
- Encouraging birds and butterflies in your yard
- How to create a garden that doesn’t require irrigation
- The 3 magic ingredients for native plant success
- 9 deadly mistakes that you want to avoid when planting
- The best and worst months to plant (if you are hoping to keep your plants alive!)
- How to maintain your native garden with little work as possible
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DIANE DOWNEY is a highly experienced landscape consultant, licensed landscape contractor, and landscape designer – she ran The Yard Fairy, an award-winning residential landscape design/build company for 10 years, holding a CA landscape contractor’s license (C-27).
SHERI MENELLI is an experienced permaculture design consultant, business owner, international public speaker and educator. She is a marketing and publicity consultant who has been in over 200 magazines and newspapers as well as made 5 TV appearances and been on over 50 radio shows. She’s worked in several industries with marketing and publicity including helping some of the top soil scientists in the world. She has been an educator, developing her own curricula for over 15 years.
Both Sheri and Diane blended their passion for landscaping and the environment with a background of teaching adults, and now regularly teach homeowner classes on rainwater capture, soil health, the use of native plants, turf removal, and efficient irrigation, both in the landscape, in the classroom and via one-to-one garden coaching sessions.
SHERI MENELLI is an experienced permaculture design consultant, business owner, international public speaker and educator. She is a marketing and publicity consultant who has been in over 200 magazines and newspapers as well as made 5 TV appearances and been on over 50 radio shows. She’s worked in several industries with marketing and publicity including helping some of the top soil scientists in the world. She has been an educator, developing her own curricula for over 15 years.
Both Sheri and Diane blended their passion for landscaping and the environment with a background of teaching adults, and now regularly teach homeowner classes on rainwater capture, soil health, the use of native plants, turf removal, and efficient irrigation, both in the landscape, in the classroom and via one-to-one garden coaching sessions.
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