Design Your Own Native Plant Garden

Not a drop to spare! Transform your garden into one more appropriate for this environment. Discover new plants and how to see them most effectively in your landscape. We offered this course several years ago and it sold out. Register early.

Topics include:

• Why grow native plants?
• Principles of garden design
• Native trees, shrubs and vines for the garden
• Native perennials, grasses and wildflower for the garden
• Garden design, review/maintenance notes

Agi Kehoe is a California native plant enthusiast, a landscape designer and master gardener. Her love of nature and gardening came from her late father who practiced his passion of growing an edible garden in Hungary. Her passion and profession--which she has developed during her more than 30 years of living in California--is creating natural gardens, caring for them and observing people and wildlife moving in and responding to these places. She is an active member of the Santa Clara Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society, the Santa Clara County master gardeners and the California chapter of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.

Arvind Kumar is a director of California Native Plant Society and has been growing native plants since 2001. He writes a native gardening colum for the Sierra club (Loma Prieta chapter) newsletter. He leads the California Native Garden project at Lake Cunningham Park in San José and is on the steering committee of the Going Native garden tour.

Check your public library or purchase book online or at an area bookstore:

Required text: Designing California Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens, by Glenn Keator and Alrie Middlebrook, UC Press.

Recommended text: California Native Plants for the Garden, by Carol Bornstein, David Fross, Bart O'Brien, Cachuma Press

Recommended text: Growing California Native Plants, by Marjorie Schmidt, UC Press