Native Plant Extravaganza’s – Saturdays March 21 and 28, 2020, 10:00-4:00
Two Native Plant Extravaganza’s will take place this month; shop for natives at these nurseries, on these dates! A portion of the proceeds will go to support the Tour.
Plants will be available for purchase at the following nurseries on Saturdays March 21 and 28, 2020, from 10:00–4:00
Saturday, March 21, 10:00-4:00
*East Bay Wilds – 2777 Foothill Blvd., Oakland
East Bay Wilds carried four hundred kinds of proven natives that are particularly beautiful, reliable, and hard to find.
12:00 “The best native plants for attracting butterflies and other pollinators” by Pete Veilleux
Come learn about the plants that will bring butterflies and other pollinators to your garden in this short talk. A display of these plants will be available to browse throughout the day.
Watch this video of a Douglas Tallamy talk that will change the way you think about gardening: Doug Tallamy, Why it Matters and What We Can Do
Did you know that the babies of most birds require caterpillars while in the nest? Baby birds do not eat seeds, or berries, or sugar water; they must have caterpillars, which come from butterflies and moths. However, butterflies and moths will only lay their eggs on a very few types of plants—without those plants we won’t have butterflies—or baby birds. Check out the list of larval host plants on the Tour’s website (links under the video), plant some oaks, lupine, manzanitas, currants and sages in your garden, and rejoice when you see caterpillars!
* Green Thumb Works – 20095 Mission Blvd., Hayward (at the Paradise Community Garden in Cherryland)
Green Thumb Works sells a diverse selection of hard-to-find native annuals, perennials, and cultivated varieties not sold in big box stores.
All day
Natural soaps, handmade by garden tour hosts Eugene Shabelyanau and Danny Galindo (visit their garden on this year’s Tour!), owners of SOAPGEEK, will be selling artisanal soaps made with plants from their own garden. Soaps with white sage, California sage, wooley blue curls,
pine tar and others will be available; a percentage of their sales will be donated to the Tour. Recently Eugene and Danny’s soaps were featured in the 2020 Castro Valley Sanitary District Sustainable calendar. Reduce your use of plastic and enjoy these natural soaps, made in small batches from natural herbs and scented with essential oils.
Throughout the day you can purchase a massage in the garden by Viviane Deleon Bias of Spotted Pony Body Works.
2:00 – Beekeepers meet and greet. Everyone welcome: experienced, newbies or anyone curious about bees – please join us!
Saturday, March 28, 10:00-4:00
* East Bay Wilds – 2777 Foothill Blvd. Oakland
12:00 “The best native plants for attracting butterflies and other pollinators” by Pete Veilleux
Come learn about the plants that will bring butterflies and other pollinators to your garden in this short talk. A display of these plants will be available to browse throughout the day.
Watch this video of a Douglas Tallamy talk that will change the way you think about gardening: Doug Tallamy, Why it Matters and What We Can Do
Did you know that the babies of most birds require caterpillars while in the nest? Baby birds do not eat seeds, or berries, or sugar water; they must have caterpillars, which come from butterflies and moths. However, butterflies and moths will only lay their eggs on a very few types of plants—without those plants we won’t have butterflies—or baby birds. Check out the list of larval host plants on the Tour’s website (links under the video), plant some oaks, lupine, manzanitas, currants and sages in your garden, and rejoice when you see caterpillars!
Details
This full-day shopping opportunity will offer native plant fans a good selection of native plants at the best time of year to plant them. The Extravaganza provides the opportunity to purchase unique or hard-to-find native plants that are not normally available in most nurseries. Knowledgeable staff will be on hand to help shoppers select the best plants for their gardens.
For information on how to successfully plant natives, see Yerba Buena Nursery’s excellent Transplant Guide.
Some of the plants East Bay Wilds regularly carries are hummingbird sage, hound’s tongue, wooly mule’s ears, Island bush poppy, wooly blue curls, rare ferns, flannel bush, a fast-growing strain of western redbud, Sagehen strawberry, Barrie Coate flowering currants, fragrant golden currant, leafy reedgrass, burr marigold, purple three-awn, Marion Sampson hummingbird mint, Sonoma sage, Pickeringias (chapparal pea), Everett’s choice California fuchsia, prostrate coastal sage, many, many kinds of manzanitas, buckwheats, California lilac, penstemons, hybrid monkeyflowers, sedges, and a wide selection of sages. See the plant list here:/ View Flicker photos here.