Sponsors
Coast Live Oak ($17,000)
Contra Costa Clean Water Program
Buckeye ($10,000)
Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
Holly Leaf Cherry ($5,840)
Alameda County Fish and Game Commission
California Poppy ($5,500)
Contra Costa Water District
Hazelnut ($5,000)
California Native Plant Society (East Bay Chapter)
Mountain Mahogany ($3,750)
Contra Costa County Fish and Wildlife Commission
Toyon ($3,000)
Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency
Ocean Spray ($2,500)
Brian and Jennifer Dirking
Sage ($2,000)
EcoPerformance Builders
Dwight Johnson
Douglas Iris ($1,500)
City of El Cerrito
City of Pittsburg
Goldenrod ($1,000)
Anne Chambers and Ed McAlpine
City of Antioch
Lyngso
QuitCarbon
City of Walnut Creek
Glen and Connie Schneider
Ann Sorenson
Zone 7 Water Agency
Aster ($750)
Alameda County Water District
Wild Lilac ($500)
Anonymous
Nancy Beckman and Tom Bickley
Sally Cahill
Sue Estey
Dorothy Gregor
Annis and Nick Kukulan
League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville
Livermore Municipal Water
Bill and Carrie McCormack
Elizabeth Nixon
Scott Rafferty
The Yvonne and Melvin Rogow Memorial Fund
The Summer-Dry Project
Gold-backed Fern ($300)
Clytia and Joe Curley
Jenny Michael and Craig Valentine
Blue-eyed Grass ($250)
Barbara Feyerabend
Gary and Stephanie Hargraves
William Freeman and Tiffany Treece
Kathleen Smith
Sorenson Vision
Lisa Stahr
Gumplant ($200)
Dorothy Gregor
Brigit Grimm
Elizabeth (Betsy) King
Barbara Brandriff
Sue Mellers
Sydney Musumeci
Barbara Stratton
April Uohara
Coyote Brush ($180)
Rebecca Sang
Purple needle grass ($150)
Natalie Forrest
Melissa Hayes
Andrea Matsushima
Pat Rudebusch
Dana Swisher
Lupine ($100)
In memory of Kathleen Gonzalez, from her daughter, Lisa Gonzalez
In memory of William Marlow, Landscape Designer, from John Springer
Dolores Apton
Steven B Berger
Wendy Bernstein
Barbara Berrys
Nathalie Brophy
Diane Bush
Kathryn Choudhury
Linda Chapnick
Susan and Bert Collins
James Cunradi
Maureen Decombe
Martha DeWitt
Ann Fathman
Natalie Forrest
Tatiana Garachtchenko
Carrie Gustafson
Joseph Heath
Jean Hansen
Roberta Hough
Karen Hunt
Thomas Jefferson
Alton Jelks
Rebecca Jennings
Christie Johnson
Margaret Johnson
Eugene Kim
Ellen Kruse
Charleen Kubota
Linda Lazzeretti
Erica Lee
Alice Lewin
Kit Little
Pamela Magnuson-Peddle
Anthony Martin
Jane Martin
Arthur McCaughy
Mark and Helene McElyea
Lynn McGann
Nick Mealy
Jenny Michael and Craig Valentine
Claudia Miller
Kate Miller
Robin Mitchell
Monya Lane
Marty Morrow
Susan Munroe
Denise Murphy
Marie Narlock
Rosemary Neilan
David Ogden
Shanna O’Hare
Amy and John Olson
Barbara Ouellet
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Joan Pont
Eric Rasmussen
Steve Reidman
Margit Roos-Collins
Sue Rosenthal
Norman Rossman
Susan Rubio
Karen Salvini
Orsolya Salzberg
Misty Schmidt
Anne Severs
John Shearer
Vanessa Sheirich
Judith Sherwood
Sabrina Siebert
Kathleen Smith
Karen Smithson
Lucy Snow
Kathryn Spence
Jim and Jennifer Spinello
Lisa Stalteri
Jerilynn Stark
Laura Stevens
Barbara Stratton
Sandra Tichner
Laura Thomas
Charles Thurston
Danica Truchlikova
Angela Tucker
April Uohara
Louise Velazquez
Jean Vieth
Norma Wallace
Idell Weydemeyer
Rochelle Wheeler
Rebecca White
Jordan Wilkerson
Nancy Williams
Linda Willis
Stephen Wood
Kelly Woodard
Susan Worden
Thank you, Community Partners!
Golden Gate Audubon Society
City of Berkeley’s Office of Energy and Sustainable Development: Rebecca Milliken
Marise Phillips
Ruchlis Videography
Rachel Styer
Sustainable Contra Costa
Special thanks to Golden Gate Audubon, especially to Executive Director Glenn Phillips, for help with this year’s Tour!
Thank you to Saxon Holt Photography for providing the use of his beautiful photographs of native plant gardens. To see more of Saxon’s native plant photos, visit PhotoBotanic’s California Native Plant Galleries.
Many, many thanks to our amazing volunteers! More than 150 volunteers have helped to make this tour a success. The tour couldn’t be run without you!
Web design by Michael May, May Technology Consulting, mike@maytc.com; Garden guide layout by Monica Alatorre, (510) 932-1702; Graphics by Valerie Kells from The Natural History of Big Sur