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California Native Plant Experts to Teach Landmark Class04-01-03 | News
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San Francisco - Alrie Middlebrook, award winning garden designer, author, and California native plant expert, will teach a 10-part class along with Dr. Glenn Keator, field Botanist, entitled "California Natives in Style," for the Strybing Arboretum and Botanical Gardens in San Francisco. The class will introduce participants to a new way in looking at Bay Area gardens. Instead of emulating designs that reflect other times and places, it highlights creation a new paradigm that reflects the Bay Area?EUR??,,????'???s own special place. California is home to an amazing array of plant communities and microclimates, each with its own set of provocative plants that immediately identify their origins. Regardless of the basic style of the garden or the house, California natives can create an appropriate palate for the specific place. The class will address not only designs based on local plant communities - redwood forest, oak woodland, grassland, and chaparral - but will deal with problems in using natives and finding sources for them. Field trips include Regional Parks Botanic Garden in Berkeley and various already established and new private gardens featuring natives. - helps re-connect people to nature like designing and creating a native garden - right in your own backyard,?EUR??,,????'?? said Middlebrook. For more information: www.middlebrook-gardens.com.
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