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Designing your Garden with California Native Plants

Learn which California Native Plants are best for your garden in this illustrated presentation that offers tips on designing a native garden

With so many California native plants to choose from, how can you create a native garden that fulfills your expectations? Whether your motivation is to create year-round beauty, welcome wildlife, reduce your water bills, screen unsightly views, or entertain family and friends, this illustrated presentation will offer tips on designing a native garden that works for you.

Join the Malibu Garden Club for our January event when Carol Bornstein presents "Designing your Garden with California Native Plants" on Wednesday, January 6th at 7:00 p.m. at Point Dume Club House, 29500 Heathercliff Drive, Malibu, CA.

Carol Bornstein is Director of the Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, whose mission is to inspire wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. For nearly 30 years, she was horticulturist at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Carol is co-author of two books, the award-winning California Native Plants for the Garden and Reimagining the California Lawn. She has selected and introduced several popular cultivars for California gardens, including Verbena lilacina ‘De La Mina’ and Lessingia filaginifolia ‘Silver Carpet’ and she continues to share her knowledge of plants native to California and other mediterranean regions through her teaching, writing, and design work.

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