Going Native Garden Tour 2009

A free tour of native gardens in Santa Clara Valley & Peninsula, San Francisco Bay Area

Sun, April 19, 2009, 10:00am to 4:00pm

 

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Prior Year Tours:
  2008 Tour Report
  2007 Tour Gardens
  2006 Tour Gardens
  Plant List (PDF)
  Plant List (text)

Gardening With Natives Forum

Plant Labeling Ideas

California Native Plant Professionals

Pressroom

List of Invasive Plants of Concern.

Other Native Garden Tours:

LOS ANGELES:
Theodore Payne Native Plant Garden Tour
April 12 & 13, 2008


SAN FRANCISCO:
Spring Garden Tour
April 13, 2008


EAST BAY:
Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour
Sunday, May 4, 2008


MARIN:
Eco-Friendly Garden Tour
May 17-18, 2008


LINKS OF INTEREST:
Growing Natives:
Celebrating California's beauty in dry times (a two day symposium on Native Plant Gardening), March 28-29, 2009.

Since 2003, the Bay Area's pioneering native garden tour has showcased gardens featuring California native plants. This community-based tour is free of charge to the public upon successful registration. Each tour features about 45 gardens, most of them private home gardens, which are open on tour day for viewing by the public in a do-it-yourself, open house format.

The goals of the tour are to demonstrate reduced water use, reduced chemical and pesticide use, improved habitat, and the unique aesthetic appeal of gardens designed with California native plants.


Registration for Going Native Garden Tour 2009 will open on Friday, January 9, 2009. Meanwhile you can sign up to be on the notification list. When registration opens, an email notification will be sent to everyone on this notification list. To join the GNGT notification list, type in your email below, click on the "Join now" button, and follow the directions.

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Take a virtual preview tour through the gardens on the 2008 Going Native Garden Tour.


Garden Previews for Volunteers: Tour volunteers can now visit tour gardens throughout the year through a series of Garden Preview events organized expressly for them. Tour volunteers work one 3-hour shift on tour day (Sunday, April 19, 2009) at one of the gardens either as a docent or as a greeter. Other volunteers work on the steering committee on tasks like garden selection, publicity, website, registration, and sponsorships. To sign up, please fill out our volunteer registration form.


Garden Submissions: If you live in Santa Clara County or San Mateo County, and California native plants are a significant percentage (50% or more) of your garden, we invite you to submit your garden for inclusion in the Going Native Garden Tour 2009 by filling out the Garden Submission Form. The deadline for submitting gardens is Thursday, January 15, 2009.

 
TOUR SPONSORS:
Bay Area Water Supply & Conservation Agency
Santa Clara Valley Water District
Watershed Watch
Mediterranean Garden Society
Yerba Buena Nursery
Middlebrook Gardens

TOUR SUPPORTERS:
Acterra
Bay Nature Magazine
California Native Plant Society, Horticulture Program
California Native Plant Society, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Gardening With Natives
Conexions
Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Friends of Guadalupe River Park and Gardens
Larner Seeds
National Wildlife Federation
Neighborhood Development Center (City of San Jose)
Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society
Sierra Club (Loma Prieta Chapter)
UCCE Master Gardeners
Western Horticultural Society


Information about the photos on this page, clockwise from top:
   Going Native Garden Tour logo (clarkia and monkeyflower), ©2005 Agi Kehoe
   Native plant garden in central San Jose, ©2005 Christopher Bogosian
   Flowers of desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) ©2004 Krzysztof Kozminski
   Native plant garden in Campbell; ©2005, Stephanie Morris