Learn about Monarch butterflies from the Marin Master Gardeners. Monarch butterflies, as much as we love them, are in danger of extinction here in California. Learn about their life cycle/needs and practical steps that we can take in Marin County to help with their survival from Marin Master Gardener, Peter Norton. After 40+ years of...
The annual plant sale for the Marin Chapter of the California Native Plant Society continues despite the pandemic! Place your orders on-line between March 17-24, and then pick up your plants on Saturday March 27 between 10:30am and 1:30pm, in the parking lot of Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. Both yearly favorites and great new plant...
David Brenner of Habitat Horticulture has designed stunning living garden walls for MOMA, Salesforce, and other San Francisco businesses and organizations. Learn how you can make this unique, vertical planting option work in your own home or garden. Zoom registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Vn8PFXRoSx2muW2kpizIUw
ZOOM LINK Communities across the country are losing working waterfronts at an alarming rate. Along with the good jobs, the creative industries and the artists that they sustain. Sausalito’s working waterfront, known as the “Marinship,” and is now threatened by wealthy landowners and real estate interests that are pressuring the City Council to re-zone the...
California’s iconic and magnificent oaks support a more diverse array of organisms than any other terrestrial ecosystem in the state. In a presentation filled with wood ducks, woodrats, woodpeckers, and many other species, author and naturalist Kate Marianchild will discuss the keystone role oaks play in oak woodland food webs. We’ll learn about symbiotic connections...
The Marin Chapter of the California Native Plant Society is holding a plant sale in which you order on-line, but then pickup in person on on Sat. April 24th between 10:30am and 1:30pm, in the parking lot of Bon Air Center, Greenbrae. Their focus for this event is on plants that provide resources for pollinators,...
Come celebrate Earth Day by joining Sausalito Beautiful at MLK Park on Saturday April 24! We'll be doing some planting along with weeding to support the 100+ trees and shrubs we planted in the fall of 2019. Don your garden gloves and do a little work out in the fresh air (socially-distanced) along with your...
The Naturehood Gardening webinar series of the California Native Plant Society resumes the first Thursday of the month with Beyond the Backyard: Native Plants in the Built Environment. Native plants can provide invaluable habitat in our gardens. They can do the same everywhere! From sidewalk medians to school campuses, parkways to municipal landscaping, we can...
The 2021 Eco-Friendly Garden Tour hosted by the Sonoma-Marin Saving Water Partnership will be entirely online and feature over 15 eco-friendly gardens throughout the two counties. The tour will showcase professionally filmed videos of gardens including an elementary school garden that has been transformed into a native plant oasis for children, and a Garden Sense sponsored garden...
In this webinar, our edible gardening expert, Dan Alexander, will teach you how to grow the berries that are right for your micro-climate. Learn how to plant and grow strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries in containers, plus care for and prune them. Join us and learn from our berry expert. Registration Required.
Hummingbirds amaze and intrigue us. Their high-speed enigmatic lifestyles are a blur; their startling colors and exotic behaviors are delights. Hummingbirds also inspire us—they are like tiny ambassadors with the power to usher people into a deeper interest in and appreciation for the natural world. Author John Shewey taps into the intrigue in this program...
In Marin County’s tidal marshes and shorelines, most of the native plant species diversity is narrowly distributed along the highest edges. The San Francisco Estuary’s plant diversity survived over 10,000 years of extreme, punctuated changes in sea level rise and climate. The legacy of these remarkably resilient tidal marsh plant species is threatened by a...
