Virtual Growing Natives Garden Tour -- Featured Gardens
Gardens with water run-off prevention features are marked with: ≈
Gardens with videos are indicated with: 📹
Public gardens are indicated with:
2018 section
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Native Demonstration Garden (10 yrs old, about 14000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
: Nancy Neff. 2014 section
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Native Demonstration Garden (10 yrs old, about 14000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
: Stephanie Morris
Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto Native Demonstration Garden (10 yrs old, about 14000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
AFLA Landscape Architecture - Ashini Fernando
Sand Box Garden (22 yrs old, about 4000 sq.ft.)
Abraham Lincoln High School Students
Lincoln High School Native Garden (1 yrs old, about 5000 sq.ft.)
Agi Kehoe
📹 Kumar-Jethanandani Garden (23 yrs old, about 2500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Wiant Garden (1 yrs old, about 1800 sq.ft.)
Agi Kehoe Landscaping
📹 ≈ Butterfly House Native Garden (6 yrs old, about 4300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2022, 2021, 2020
📹 ≈ Hummingbird Haven (8 yrs old, about 6500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2022, 2021, 2020
≈ Nadine Drive Natives (4 yrs old, about 1400 sq.ft.)
≈ Kehoe Demonstration Garden (29 yrs old, about 5000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021
≈ Strauss Family Garden (16 yrs old, about 4100 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Almaden Native (8 yrs old, about 2700 sq.ft.)
Lawson Miller Estate (9 yrs old, about 2400 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021, 2020
Blue House Garden (16 yrs old, about 7000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Elder Garden (7 yrs old, about 9700 sq.ft.)
Buster's Garden (9 yrs old, about 2200 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Woodbury Drive Garden (2 yrs old, about 2600 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Agi Kehoe, Melanie Cross and Grassroots Ecology
≈ Bol Park Native Garden (16 yrs old, about 12000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021, 2020
Agi Kehoe, UCCE Master Gardener
Native Garden Wheel at Emma Prusch Farm Park (11 yrs old, about 1100 sq.ft.)
Alex Von Feldt
📹 Creek Park Drive Garden (22 yrs old, about 0.6 acre)
Alrie Middlebrook, Middlebrook Gardens
📹 Environmental Laboratory for Sustainability and Ecological Education (ELSEE) (22 yrs old, about 11300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Almaden Retreat (16 yrs old, about 3500 sq.ft.)
Nevada Avenue Garden (17 yrs old, about 3500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Slatebrook Garden (19 yrs old, about 5000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Annaloy Nickum
📹 ≈ Downtown Sunnyvale Native Garden (15 yrs old, about 1900 sq.ft.)
Native Front Landscape and Rain Garden (6 yrs old, about 1000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Arvind Kumar, Ashok Jethanandani, and Susan Sundberg
Lake Cunningham Park Native Garden (21 yrs old, about 2 acre)
Ashini Fernando, Deva Luna and Homeowners
📹 ≈ Hingwe-Sharma Garden (10 yrs old, about 3600 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Back
Cheerful Santa Clara Garden (13 yrs old, about 3000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Back yard: Chachi Huiltron Landscapes water feature and homeowner plant design.
Sullivan's Garden (23 yrs old, about 5000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Barbara Jackel Landscape Design & Homeowner
📹 Mountain Retreat (24 yrs old, about 1 acre)
Bay Maples
📹 ≈ Golden Light Creek Bed (9 yrs old, about 3000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
CNPS Volunteers
📹 CNPS-SCV Nursery (30 yrs old, about 3000 sq.ft.)
California Nativescapes
📹 Tranquility Walk (8 yrs old, about 5300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2020
Carolyn Ordonez
📹 McClenny-Holmlund Garden (16 yrs old, about 4800 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Central Coast Wilds
Near Alum Rock Park (31 yrs old, about 15000 sq.ft.)
Chris Todd
📹 Mid-Century Modern meets Organic Wildlife Park (10 yrs old, about 5900 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Foxborough Garden (21 yrs old, about 10000 sq.ft.)
Community Volunteers
Cuesta Pollinator Habitat (2 yrs old, about 10000 sq.ft.)
Deva Luna
📹 Waterwise Pollinator Gardens (9 yrs old, about 5500 sq.ft.)
Front
Cheerful Santa Clara Garden (13 yrs old, about 3000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Front yard: Annaloy Nickum and homeowner
Sullivan's Garden (23 yrs old, about 5000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Gamble Staff
≈ Elizabeth F. Gamble Garden - Native Garden (14 yrs old, about 10800 sq.ft.)
Golden State Gardens
≈ Golden State Gardens (6 yrs old, about 1500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021
Green Pad design and homeowner
≈ Pond and Wetland Garden (14 yrs old, about 8500 sq.ft.)
GreenTown Los Altos Community Volunteers and Nikki Hanson, California Sisters Landscapes
Woodland Library Drought Tolerant Demonstration Garden (7 yrs old, about 1200 sq.ft.)
Henry Mink
📹 Kumar-Jethanandani Garden (23 yrs old, about 2500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Homeowner
📹 Silva Garden (11 yrs old, about 1500 sq.ft.)
📹 Habitat Haven (33 yrs old, about 1 acre)
📹 Manter Garden (12 yrs old, about 800 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
📹 Round's Hill (26 yrs old, about 1.6 acre), also seen in: 2020
📹 Andy's Native Garden (6 yrs old, about 600 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
📹 Fleming Ave Garden (16 yrs old, about 12500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2022, 2020
📹 McClenny-Holmlund Garden (16 yrs old, about 4800 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
📹 Penney Garden (4 yrs old, about 1000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021
📹 ≈ Prakriti Garden (10 yrs old, about 1500 sq.ft.)
Finch's Garden (10 yrs old, about 1500 sq.ft.)
Wild and Native Pollinator Garden (9 yrs old, about 2000 sq.ft.)
Living in Front of an Eichler (14 yrs old, about 2000 sq.ft.)
Finch's Garden, Take 2 (5 yrs old, about 1200 sq.ft.)
Shady Glen (8 yrs old, about 2900 sq.ft.)
Bee Haven (5 yrs old, about 1300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2022
Easy-Going Naturescape (5 yrs old, about 1200 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2021, 2020
Middlefield Native and Edible Gardens (20 yrs old, about 1500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2020
Heatherdale Ave Garden (15 yrs old, about 5300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021
Lizard Sanctuary (6 yrs old, about 5200 sq.ft.)
Tabii Garden (1 yrs old, about 1000 sq.ft.)
Wandering Among Natives (11 yrs old, about 800 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022
Homeowner and Pete Veilleux
📹 Salinger Garden (13 yrs old, about 0.5 acre), also seen in: 2022, 2020
Homeowner with help from ELSEE & Yerba Buena
📹 Manzanitas and Wildflowers (10 yrs old, about 400 sq.ft.)
Homeowner, consulted with Agi Kehoe
Sparrowdise 2022 Lawn Conversion (2 yrs old, about 1800 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Homeowners
📹 Meadowlands Garden (26 yrs old, about 1 acre)
📹 Pavilion View (7 yrs old, about 2700 sq.ft.)
📹 Manzanita Madness (8 yrs old, about 900 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
📹 ≈ Morrow-Rumbaugh Garden (23 yrs old, about 11000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2022, 2020
A Garden in the Rough (6 yrs old, about 1400 sq.ft.)
Crowing Hen Garden (2 yrs old, about 1000 sq.ft.)
Nicole and Andrew's Garden (3 yrs old, about 5000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Homeowners with help from Annaloy Nickum
Suburban Natives (16 yrs old, about 1600 sq.ft.)
Homeowners, with help from Middlebrook Gardens
📹 Urban Oasis (10 yrs old, about 3600 sq.ft.)
Jack Stafford 1970, Timmy Gallagher until 2000, Ron Lutsko 2000
Woodside Library Native Plant Garden (54 yrs old, about 0.6 acre)
Jeffrey Caldwell and Tanya Kucak
📹 Kumar-Jethanandani Garden (23 yrs old, about 2500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Jessica Dickinson Goodman
St Stephen's in-the-Field (5 yrs old, about 4100 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022
Juanita Salisbury
📹 Primrose Way Pollinator Garden Collection (8 yrs old, about 4000 sq.ft.)
Julie Orr
📹 ≈ Morrow-Rumbaugh Garden (23 yrs old, about 11000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2022, 2020
Kathy Crane, Yerba Buena Nursery
Fairy Garden (1 yrs old, about 1200 sq.ft.)
Kathy Kleinsteiber + Community Volunteers
Kirk Park Native Plant Pollinator Garden (2 yrs old, about 10000 sq.ft.)
Kevin Arroyo, Juanita Salisbury
LG Almaden Pollinator Garden (4 yrs old, about 6000 sq.ft.)
Lutsko Associates with assistance from local designers Alex Von Feldt and Danna Breen.
📹 Portola Valley - Town Center (17 yrs old, about 11 acre)
Mader Green & Homeowner
Blue House Garden (16 yrs old, about 7000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Master Gardeners-San Mateo/San Francisco Counties
City of San Carlos Native Plant Garden (5 yrs old, about 8000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
Middlebrook Gardens
📹 Tranquility Walk (8 yrs old, about 5300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2020
Middlebrook Gardens and Homeowner
Santa Teresa Wild (12 yrs old, about 3200 sq.ft.)
Native Revival Nursery
Near Alum Rock Park (31 yrs old, about 15000 sq.ft.)
Owner
Miguel Garden (18 yrs old, about 7400 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021, 2020
Owners
Bring Back Bay Area Bees, Butterflies and Birds (3 yrs old, about 600 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Owners and Pete Veilleux
Grace and Matthew's Garden (8 yrs old, about 2500 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Parent volunteers
Highlands Elementary Native Plant Garden (7 yrs old, about 2300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2020
Patrick Pizzo, Dave Poschel and Larry Sasscer
📹 ≈ CA Native Plant Berms, J. Fontana Park (12 yrs old, about 5500 sq.ft.)
Pete Veilleux, East Bay Wilds, and the previous homeowner
📹 Bel Estos Drive Garden (18 yrs old, about 3600 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021, 2020
Rani Fischer
Andy's Garden (4 yrs old, about 500 sq.ft.)
Rebecca Schoenenberger, California Nativescapes
📹 Berger Native Demonstration Garden (11 yrs old, about 3000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
📹 El Jardin Feliz 2 (6 yrs old, about 1300 sq.ft.)
≈ NorCal Native Garden (8 yrs old, about 1500 sq.ft.)
≈ Starbush Garden (12 yrs old, about 1100 sq.ft.)
≈ Corner Beauty (6 yrs old, about 1100 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
Suburban Oasis (8 yrs old, about 2500 sq.ft.)
Renter, Earthcare Landscaping, Agi Kehoe Landscaping
📹 GreerDucky (12 yrs old, about 3100 sq.ft.)
Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department staff, Friends of Martial Cottle Park
Martial Cottle Park Hedgerows Project (4 yrs old, about 18000 sq.ft.)
Scott Lewis Landscape Design
Maxwell/Hanrahan Garden (28 yrs old, about 1.1 acre), also seen in: 2023
Sherri Osaka
Our Own Little Park (6 yrs old, about 2200 sq.ft.)
Bartholomew Garden (6 yrs old, about 1000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023
Sherri Osaka, Sustainable Landscape Designs
📹 Polk Court Garden (11 yrs old, about 3000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2020
≈ Sampson's Play Yard (7 yrs old, about 4000 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021, 2020
≈ Pratt's Gardens (11 yrs old, about 3200 sq.ft.)
Perrino-Teresi Garden (8 yrs old, about 7000 sq.ft.)
Skyline Design
Almaden Retreat (16 yrs old, about 3500 sq.ft.)
Stephanie Morris
📹 Mossbrook Garden (14 yrs old, about 1600 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2022, 2021, 2020
📹 Low Water Cottage Garden (20 yrs old, about 4700 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020
📹 ≈ Matadero Garden (10 yrs old, about 0.5 acre), also seen in: 2023, 2022, 2020
Church Welcome Garden (13 yrs old, about 2300 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021, 2020
West Valley College Moon Garden (1 yrs old, about 2400 sq.ft.)
Cozy Medley Garden (1 yrs old, about 900 sq.ft.)
North Star Garden (2 yrs old, about 1100 sq.ft.)
Wild Front Yard (2 yrs old, about 3200 sq.ft.)
Suzanne Redell, Dina Gibbs and Chris Nutter
Collins School Garden (19 yrs old, about 1300 sq.ft.)
UC Master Gardeners
📹 ≈ UC Master Gardener Program at Martial Cottle Park - Native Demonstration Garden (9 yrs old, about 0.6 acre), also seen in: 2023, 2022
UCCE Master Gardeners
Master Gardener Demonstration Garden (20 yrs old, about 0.5 acre)
Unknown
📹 Edith Morley Park Native Garden (23 yrs old, about 2.7 acre)
Volunteers
≈ Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center (33 yrs old, about 1.5 acre)
We've Gone Native
Fernside Dragons Habitat (2 yrs old, about 1300 sq.ft.)
We've Gone Native, Skyline Design, homeowner
Habitat and Pollinator Garden (8 yrs old, about 19600 sq.ft.)
Yerba Buena Nursery
Home Butterfly Garden (6 yrs old, about 900 sq.ft.)
owner
Near Alum Rock Park (31 yrs old, about 15000 sq.ft.)
re-designed and installed by the current homeowner in 2019.
📹 Bel Estos Drive Garden (18 yrs old, about 3600 sq.ft.), also seen in: 2021, 2020
This page shows all gardens participating in the 2020 and 2021 Virtual GNGT.
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