Environmental News - Gottlieb Native Garden

Can volunteers improve this freeway wall with a corridor of native plants?

Can volunteers improve this freeway wall with a corridor of native plants? · September 27, 2023

Seven years ago, a Girl Scout set up four planters between the sidewalk and the street along Ave. 20 from Broadway to Albion on the freeway side. California buckwheat and autumn sage now grow there, and they make things better.

Native plant gardens are reinvigorating Oakland wildlife—and residents

Native plant gardens are reinvigorating Oakland wildlife—and residents · September 27, 2023

In backyards and along sidewalk strips locals are tending plants that boost ecosystems, save water, and green communities.

SLO County Nursery has been selling native plants for 50 years. Here’s how it got started

SLO County Nursery has been selling native plants for 50 years. Here’s how it got started · September 23, 2023

In the 19th and early 20th century it was popular to bring exotic plants such as eucalyptus trees to California from faraway continents.

California Native Plant Society plant sale!

California Native Plant Society plant sale! · September 22, 2023

The Sacramento Valley chapter of the California Native Plant Society is hosting a plant sale this weekend in Rancho Cordova!

Sonoma County garden events focus on natives, succulents and food forests

Sonoma County garden events focus on natives, succulents and food forests · September 15, 2023

The director of the Botanic Garden at Tilden Park in Berkeley will talk about some of his favorite native plants for the garden and how to care for them in a rapidly changing climate at the Tuesday, Sept. 19, meeting of the California Native Plant Society’s Milo Baker Chapter.

California Native Plant Society having fall sale

California Native Plant Society having fall sale · September 14, 2023

The North Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will hold its annual “Fall Native Plant Sale” Sept. 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. by appointment only and Sept. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with no appointment needed.

SLO County native plant nursery closed to public due to COVID. It’s finally reopening

SLO County native plant nursery closed to public due to COVID. It’s finally reopening · September 13, 2023

When Bert Wilson, the founder of Las Pilitas Nursery in Santa Margarita, died suddenly in the spring of 2014, his family had no time to grieve

A rooftop garden in Chicago has thousands of native plants—and a mission

A rooftop garden in Chicago has thousands of native plants—and a mission · September 13, 2023

Three stories above a busy stretch of North Halsted Street, on a rooftop with views of downtown skyscrapers, crickets chirp and prairie flowers dance in the breeze.

San Diego plants act like it’s spring again after August drenching

San Diego plants act like it’s spring again after August drenching · September 8, 2023

All that water, when the local landscape should be hot and dry, made our plants act pretty strange. Tipuana trees were blooming a second time. Native plants like ceanothus were showing new growth when they should have been dormant.

Plant experts saw surprises all over town.

Why You Should Grow Native Plants in Your Garden

Why You Should Grow Native Plants in Your Garden · September 7, 2023

Entomologist Doug Tallamy explains how doing so can help insects and birds