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    • Board Members
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  • 2026 Plant Sale
  • 2027 Garden Tour
  • Our Work
    • Conservation
    • Field Trips
    • Habitat Restoration
    • Native Gardening
      • Learning Garden
      • Petscaping
      • Fairgarden 2025
      • Fairgarden 2023
    • Propagation
    • Public Outreach
    • Rare Plants
    • Seeds & Bulbs
    • Miramar Vernal Pool Preserve
    • Education
      • California Buckwheat & Behr’s Metalmark
      • White Sage & Yellow-faced Bumble Bee
      • Engelmann Oak and Acorn Woodpecker
      • Chuparosa and Costa’s Hummingbird
      • Arroyo Willow and Western Tiger Swallowtail
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    • Upcoming Events
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  • Summer Focus

    September 5, 2021
    By Susan Krzywicki, landscape designer of “Native Gardens…Green Living” and Native Garden Committee memberAs we pull into mid-summer, the garden focus is diffused over a wide array of plant activity. Bees are buzzing, some plants quiet down, and you can start to look forward to what the fall plantings will be. Time to look around and note seasonal differences, places that need refreshing, and holes that develop. Besides the reliable bloom of our Cleveland sages (Salvia clevelandii), here are some other garden choices local to our area.
  • Late Bloomers

    October 18, 2020

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  • California Fuchsia (Epilobium canum)

    June 21, 2020

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  • Birdscaping Your Garden Using Native Plants: A Q&A with Teresa Everett

    August 27, 2019

    Teresa Everett, California Native Gardening Specialty Presenter and Featured Gardener on the CNPS-SD Garden Tour 2018, will present “Gardening is for …

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