Sustainable Planting
Agenda and Resources
At Heron's Head Park on 11/6/10
Rain: The Forgotten Resourcee: Rain Gauge, Rainfall, and Rain Capture
Seed Bombs and Seed Collection
Restoration-based Field Trip Opportunities
Heron's Head Park, Candlestick State Recreation Area, and Native Plant Nursery
Download the program request form at:
Presidio and Golden Gate National Parks
National Parks Service Learning
http://www.parksconservancy.
org/our-work/site-stewardship- program/about/education-and. html Presidio Native Plant Nursery
http://www.parksconservancy.
org/our-work/native-plant- nurseries/education.html Youth Stewardship Program
Natural Areas Program, Department of Parks and Recreation
http://sf-recpark.org/index.
aspx?page=2401 Kids in Parks
SFUSD schools: Visitation Valley Middle School, Aptos Middle School, Luther Burbank Middle School, Excelsior Middle School, Hoover Middle School, E.R. Taylor Elementary School, Gloria R. Davis Middle School, Cleveland Elementary School
Green Schoolyard Alliance
Native Plant Sales and Vendors
LEJ's Native Plant Nursery at Candlestick State Recreation Area*
1150 Carroll Ave, San Francisco, CA
Contact Patrick Rump at bye@lejyouth.org or 415-282-6840
Available for purchase by appointment of 25 plants or more. Open to creating a planting plan and working with your students and/or LEJ youth to install plants at your location.
Haight-Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) Native Plant Nursery
780 Frederick St., San Francisco, CA
http://www.hanc-sf.org/native-
plant-nursery/ Open year-round; good for small purchases
SF Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Check dates here: http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.
org/plant_sales/plant_sales. htm
Regional Parks Botanical Garden
Tidlen Regional Park, Berkeley, CA
Check dates here: http://www.nativeplants.org/
plantsales.html
Native Here Nursery
101 Golf Coarse Drive
Tilden Regional Park
Berkeley, CA 94708
www.ebcnps.org/nativehere.html
Located in Tilden Park across from the entrance to the Tilden Golf Course. Volunteer run by CNPS, excellent source of locally native plants, revegetation, and restoration.
Open Tuesdays: noon to 3 pm, Fridays: 9 am - noon, Saturdays: 10 am - 2 pm.
CA Native Plant Society's Directory of Native Plant Nurseries
Search by region: http://www.cnps.org/cnps/
grownative/nurseries.php
Seed Vendor
Larner Seeds*
P.O. Box 407
Bolinas, CA 94924
Suggested for consumer gardeners. Mail order seeds, retail plants at nursery Oct. thru July, coastal ecotypes, wildflowers, perennials, shrubs, trees, & grasses, contract collect & grow, demonstration garden.
Suggested Literature
*Larner Seeds Notes on Nativess Series and Seed Propagation Techniques
Author: Judith Larner Lowry
http://larnerseeds.com/_pages/
books.html Faber, Phyllis M. Commone Wetland Plants of Coastal California. Mill Valley: Pickleweed Press, 1996.
Beidleman, Linda H. and Kozloff, Eugene N. Plants of the San Francisco Bay Region: Mendocino to Monterey. Berkeley and LA: University of California Press, 2003.
*Bornstein, Carol; Fross, David; and O'Brien, Bart. California Native Plants for the Garden. Los Olivos, CA: Cachuma Press, 2005.
Schmidt, Marjorie. Growing California Native Plants. Berkely and LA: University of California Press, 1980.
Holloran, Pete; Mackenzie, Anouk; Farrell, Sharon; and Johnson, Doug. The Weed Workerss Handbook: A Guide to Techniques for Removing Bay Area Invasive Plants. The Watershed Project and California Invasive Plant Council, 2004.
Bossard, Carla C.; Randall, John M.; and Hoshovsky, Marc C. Invasive Plants of Californiaas Wildlands. Berkeley and LA: University of California Press, 2000.
*Bauer, Nancy. The Habitat Garden Book: Wildlife Landscaping for the San Francisco Bay Region. Sebastopol, CA: Coyote Ridge Press, 2001.
Keator, Glenn and Middlebrook, Alrie. Designing California Native Gardens: The Plant Community Approach to Artful, Ecological Gardens. Berkeley and LA: University of California Press, 2007.
Emergy, Dara E. Seed Propagation of Native California Plants. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, 1988.
* Suggested by LEJ