Common Mistakes with a Planting Plan

One of everything Overplanting Focusing solely on flowers, not on shades of

green, form and texture Wrong plant, wrong place Mixing water needs within one hydrozone Not maintaining the garden

From Video How to Design Your Conceptual Plan by Deva Luna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT94Md27br8

How to Visualize Your Planting Plan

Create a model from paper Use your concept plan and add paper plants to

create a plan See the handouts

Hands-on Class Activity

HOW TO PLANT CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS

Potential Problems

Combination of clay soil, plus Watering when it’s warm Can foster crown and root rots

http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1371017

http://erec.ifas.ufl.edu/tomato-scouting-guide/diseases/fulsarium-crown-rot.shtml

Natives Susceptible to Rots

Woolly Blue Curls

Cleveland Sage

Berms

Fine Gardening Article“Improving Clay Soils”

Add Compost Adds drainage Aggregates the clay particles Holds more water

Water plants well BEFORE planting

Planting technique

Clay-Tolerant Species

See Yerba Buena Nursery – “Garden Guides”

Amelanchier alnifolia Serviceberry

Aralia californica* Elk Clover

Arctostaphylos bakeri 'Louis Edmunds'** Serpentine Manzanita

Arctostaphylos 'Dr Hurd'** Dr. Hurd's Manzanita

Arctostaphylos edmundsii 'Carmel Sur'** Carmel Sur Manzanita

Arctostaphylos 'Green Supreme'** Green Supreme Manzanita

Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Howard McMinn'** McMinn's Manzanita

Arctostaphylos densiflora 'Sentinel'** Sentinel Manzanita

Aristolochia californica Dutchman's Pipevine

Artemisia douglasiana* Mugwort

Budgeting

Costs Assume 1,200 square feet of garden Cost using professionals $15-22 per square

foot or $18,000 - 26,000 ~1/3 materials, 2/3 labor Doing it yourself may cost $5-7 per square

foot 1,200 square feet would be ~$6,000 – 8,000

1,200 square feet 20 feet deep by 60 feet wide front garden Plants $12/ one gallon retail, $35 for five gallon,

$100 for 15 gallon 60 plants * $12 = $720 Mulch Premium arbor $32/ cubic yard, you’ll need 11

cu yds = $352 Rent a sod cutter Stepping stones, gravel path, decomposed granite

path, etc. Boulders Fountain/ bird bath

How to Save $ You provide the labor Buy 4-inch or one-gallon plants Grow plants from seed or cutting (see cutting

and seed exchange in October) Sheet mulch instead of removing the lawn Use FREE arbor chips from tree service Shred leaves to use as mulch Use recycled newspaper Get a rebates from the water district and city =

$1,200-2,400

CASE STUDIES

Falling Leaf before

Laundry to Landscape

JAMES RESIDENCE BEFORE

James Residence Before

After

Before

Case Study – East San Jose

Before

After

Drought tolerant landscapes –Case study bird sanctuary

Pondless waterfall on timer for birds

Before

Before

Drought-tolerant landscape Case study lawn replacement

After: 18 species of native plants

Drought-tolerant landscapesCase study front yard

Beach Strawberry

Fragaria chiloensis

Laundry to Landscape

Before circa 1994

Before circa 2007

RESOURCES

Go to: CNPS-SCV.ORG for videos of: What to do in your Garden by Peigi DuvallHow to Design your Garden by Deva Luna

Go to: sustainable-landscape.com, under “Articles and News” for:27 pages of sample designsList of low- and very-low water natve plantsList of lawn alternatives and sheeting mulching detailPdf of this presentationHandouts of Class exercises

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CNPS-SCV MEMBERS ONLYNURSERY SALES DAYS

Wednesdays, June 6, 11 am – 2 pmCheck cnps-scv.org website to confirm!

The Santa Clara Valley Chapter of CNPS maintains a native plant nursery on the grounds of Hidden Villa Ranch in Los Altos Hills where it grows a variety of native plants suitable for local gardens. The proceeds support chapter activities. The nursery is now open for sales to members one day a month (except during the summer), in addition to our Fall Sale which is open to the general public. The monthly Member sale days coincide with nursery work hours when volunteers will be able to help you with plant selections, becoming a member, and renewing your CNPS membership.

Bay Area Native Nurseries Local CNPS chapter sales at Hidden Villa in Los

Altos Hills, 1 x per year for non-members, monthly for chapter members

Yerba Buena Nursery, Half Moon Bay Native Revival, mail order only Bay Natives, San Francisco Native Here, Berkeley East Bay Wilds, Oakland Summerwinds Nurseries – look for native section Complete list for California:

http://www.calscape.org/plant_nursery.php

THANK YOU!

Slides of this presentation are available on the website: www.sustainable-landscape.com under Articles and News