All workshops are free and begin at 9:30 AM.
September 1
Design Basics: My Avant Garden
“You’ve removed your lawn – now what? We make it easy to take the next step! Learn how to create a My Avant Garden pre-planned native garden. This new 5 step program created by My Avant Garden and Tree of Life Nursery will help take the guesswork out of designing your native garden! We’ll show you how to read the detailed installation plan provided with the kit, give insight into the plant selection for each garden, offer guidance on nurturing your garden through the important establishment phase and introduce you to capturing rainwater for a truly resilient California native garden. My Avant Gardens are designed to replace thirsty front yards with beautiful, low-water gardens. All the information and guidance you need for success has been assembled into one convenient package.” – Jodie Cook
September 8
Nursery Garden Tour
See what’s happening at tree of life as we head into fall! We’ll lead a tour of our gardens with a focus on late summer to early fall bloomers and how you can create seasonal interest in your garden and providing year round habitat pollinators, birds, and more!
September 15
Plant Selection: Fall Blooms
Fall planting season is just around the corner! Come find out what is in bloom and what you can plant in your garden! Join native plant expert Colin Dunleavy as he highlights fall blooming natives as well as covers some key maintenance and care practices to keep your plants happy and healthy.
September 22
Create and Care for Your Native Garden
Now that you have killed your grass, and you are working on your design, what are you supposed to do? We will share from our booklet, “Creating and Caring for your Native Garden.” Bringing our 35+ years of experience with these plants, as well as just as many years of site-prep, initial irrigation techniques and working with tricky landscape situations, we will teach you how to create a thriving and enjoyable native garden. As TOL owner Mike Evans has mentioned to us for years and years: “Maintenance is what you do for your car, you CARE for your plants!”
September 29
Natives for the Permaculture Garden
Become more inspired by the beauty and function of California native plants. Join regenerative landscape designer Ryan Serrano for a seminar that will focus on using California native plants to stack function and beauty into your landscape. We will highlight plant species and strategies that can integrate well with your home food and medicine production, subsist as part of your greywater recycling systems and function well in storm water runoff basins. For the regenerative living enthusiast ready to go deeper with their understanding of what is possible with native plants.