Selecting and Arranging California Native Plants for Your Garden (Edited Version)

Are you inspired to plant California natives in your garden, but overwhelmed by all the choices? Do you want to embrace native landscaping, but want a neat and clean look?
In this talk, we will present practical steps to select and arrange native plants for different growing conditions including various soil types, the amount of sun exposure, planting in small spaces or containers. Whether you’re planning a native garden from scratch, incorporating new natives into an existing landscape or putting in a corner habitat garden, this talk will empower you to choose plants suited to your landscape.
Anna Wendorf is a landscape designer and plant enthusiast. She has been designing gardens since earning her degree in Landscape Architecture from UC Berkeley over 40 years ago. She is currently focusing her work on designing sustainable gardens throughout the Bay Area.
Anna became a UC Master Gardener volunteer in 2020, and has been busy helping to install the Gehringer native garden in Concord, and volunteers at other Master Gardener projects throughout Contra Costa County.
She spends her evenings perusing plant and biology books, and playing in her garden.