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Grav Fair Plant List and Materials – The perfect combination for full sun/pt shade Shrubs: Manzanita – Arctostaphylos densiflora Toyon – Heteromeles arbutifolia Coffeeberry – Frangula californica (syn Rhamnus) Perennials: Foothill Penstemon – Penstemon heterophyllus Verbena – Verbena ‘De la

You may have heard of “right plant, right place” but have you heard of “right purpose”? Likely coined by Julie Weisenhorn et al. who developed a plant selection tool for the University of Minnesota Extension, this approach seeks to match

  It’s Prime Bird-Watching Season! Walking along Santa Rosa creek recently, during a break between atmospheric river events, I was delighted to see Common Mergansers—a male and two females— feeding in the fast-moving creek.  Been hearing the Great Horned Owls,

Sometimes we want to do something beneficial, like turning our backyard into a wildlife habitat, but it feels too big a task or we just don’t know where to start. The good news: you really don’t have to start over;

A Few Tips on Bird Feeders   There are many ways to attract birds to your garden—water features, plants that offer seeds, nuts, fruit (especially California natives) and plants that provide cover and nesting sites.  But If your habitat area

Use these plants to create a bird focused habitat.   Bird Habitat Plants for Sebastopol    Trees and Shrubs   Big-leaf maple  Blue elderberry California buckeye California hazelnut  California wild rose Ceanothus spp. Coffeeberry Coyotebush Creambush (Holodiscus discolor) Dogwoods Hollyleaf

Nancy’s  Final (I hope) Word on Tropical Milkweed   As co-founder with April of our Habitat Corridor Project, I mostly talk about how to make gardens more wildlife friendly, and the habitat value of native plants. Though I have written

NATIVE PLANT SALE If you are looking to enhance the habitat value of your garden, you won’t want to miss the annual CNPS (California Native Plant Society) plant sale on October 8, 10am-1pm, at the Laguna Foundation, 900 Sanford Road,

MORE ON MONARCHS On July 21 the monarch butterfly was declared endangered by IUCN (The International Union for the Conservation of Nature). Being listed on the IUCN Red List means it is the first time the monarch has been officially

It has been encouraging to see so many habitat gardening enthusiasts plant more milkweed and work together to save the rapidly declining Monarch populations. While there was some good news of a significant increase in the overwintering Monarch populations on