Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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> DATED: February 26, 2005
> MEDIA CONTACT: Kathy Kramer
> Kathy [at] KathyKramerConsulting.net
> (510) 236-9558
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> Digital photographs available at
> http://www.BringingBackTheNatives.net
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> BRINGING BACK THE NATIVES GARDEN TOUR
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> BRINGING BACK THE NATIVES GARDEN TOUR. Registrants
> on this free tour
> will receive passes to 56 gardens, and a printed
> garden guide. Garden
> talks will be scheduled throughout the day. A
> variety of bird- and
> butterfly-friendly, pesticide-free, water
> conserving, low maintenance
> gardens that contain 30% or more native plants will
> be open on
> Sunday, May 1, 2005, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at
> various locations
> throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties. While
> admission is free,
> registration is required at
> http://www.BringingBackTheNatives.net. Volunteers
> are needed. For more information, email
> Kathy [at] KathyKramerConsulting.net or call (510)
> 236-9558 between 9 am and
> 9 pm.
>
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> Participants on the free Bringing Back the Natives
> Garden Tour will
> learn how to attract butterflies, birds and bees,
> garden without using
> pesticides, lower their water bills, design a
> low-maintenance garden,
> and select and care for California native plants.
> Nearly 60 showcase
> gardens will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m on
> Sunday, May 1, 2005.
> Native plants will be given away at some gardens,
> and available for
> purchase at others. Participants that fill out an
> evaluation will be
> entered into a drawing to win a free garden
> consultation from a noted
> landscape professional; there will be ten winners.
>
> The delightful collection of gardens on the
> Bringing Back the Natives
> Garden Tour range from Jenny and Scott Fleming's 50
> year old
> collector's garden to several that are newly
> installed, from five- acre
> lots to small front gardens in the flats, from local
> native plants to
> the horticulturally available suite of natives from
> throughout California, and from gardens designed
> and installed by owners
> to those designed and installed by professionals.
>
> A number of these gardens provide excellent bird
> habitat; lists of birds
> seen in the garden (and the plants that attract
> them) can be seen by
> visiting the Preview the Gardens section at
> http://www.BringingBackTheNatives.net. You can also see
> photographs of each
> garden, read extensive garden descriptions, and
> download plant lists
> there. Landscapers familiar with designing with
> natives can be
> located on the website, as can resources for
> gardening with natives,
> such as nurseries that sell natives.
>
> Excellent bird gardens are Juliet Lamont's and Glen
> Schneider's
> gardens in Berkeley (44 species of birds have been
> seen in Glen's
> garden); Idell Weydemeyer's garden in El Sobrante
> (40 species seen in
> her garden); and Anni Jensen's garden in Richmond.
> Michael Escobar's (32
> species) and Rich McDrew's (40 species) gardens in
> Walnut Creek also
> provide food, shelter and nesting areas for birds.
>
> Excellent butterfly gardens are the Alameda
> Butterfly Habitat Garden in
> Alameda, Glen Schneider's garden in Berkeley (12
> species of
> butterflies have been seen in this garden), Idell
> Weydemeyer's garden in
> El Sobrante (25 species of butterflies seen in her
> garden), Anni
> Jensen's garden in Richmond (13 species), and
> Michael Escobar's
> garden in Walnut Creek (13 species).
>
> What's special about California native plants? They
> are adapted to our
> soil and climate, and are easy to care for. Native
> plants are naturally
> drought tolerant. They attract native birds,
> butterflies, and other
> forms of wildlife. And, as the gardens on the tour
> show, California
> native plants are beautiful; the gardens on the tour
> display a sense of place that is uniquely
> Californian.
> Admission is free; registration is required at
> http://www.BringingBackTheNatives.net. Volunteers are
> needed. For more
> information, email Kathy [at] KathyKramerConsulting.net
> or call (510) 236-
> 9558 between 9 am and 9 pm.
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> it's tough to fall over when you're lying on the
> ground, but you can't see
> much from there either.
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