Registration for the free, Eighteenth Annual Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase is now open. This year there will be four days of inspiration: two days on-line, and two days in-person, and, for the first time, the Tour will also showcase green home features.
In-person Tour
The award-winning in-person Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour and Green Home Features Showcase will allow registrants to visit beautiful, water-conserving native plant gardens— 36 Bayside gardens on Saturday, April 30, and 15 Inland gardens on Sunday, May 1—from 10:00-5:00. The inland gardens include two Piedmont homes and 7 in Oakland. All of the homes have native plant gardens; about ten will be sharing their green home features, such as solar panels and batteries, induction ranges, heat pumps, and more.
Tour the garden, with Green Home Features, of Piedmonters Hope and Larry Salzer’s (below)
Tour the garden of Piedmont residents, Nancy McKee-Jolda and Robert Jolda
Registrants will learn how design a native plant garden for color and interest throughout the year, garden for wildlife, lower their water bills, protect their family’s health and the environment by gardening without using pesticides, and more.
What’s special about California native plants? They are adapted to our soil and climate, naturally water conserving, and easy to care for. California native plants are better than non-native plants when it comes to attracting native birds, butterflies, and other forms of wildlife. And, as the gardens on the Tour show, these lovely gardens display a sense of place that is uniquely Californian.
Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour
For more information, about the garden tour contact Kathy@KathyKramerConsulting.net or call (510) 236-9558 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Photos from https://www.bringingbackthenatives.net/view-gardens