Major Sponsors of the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour
Coast Live Oak ($16,500)
Contra Costa Clean Water Program
Saving Birds Through Habitat ($10,700)
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
Elderberry ($4,800)
Anonymous
Mountain Mahogany ($4,300)Contra Costa County Fish and Wildlife Commission
Hazelnut ($4,000)
California Native Plant Society (East Bay Chapter)
Toyon ($3,000)
Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency
Sage ($2,000)
EcoPerformance Builders
Douglas Iris ($1,500)
City of El Cerrito
City of Pittsburg
Pink Flowering Currant ($1,250)
RecycleSmart
Goldenrod ($1,000)
Alameda County Water District
City of Antioch
QuitCarbon
City of Walnut Creek
Zone 7 Water Agency
Wild Lilac ($500)
Anne Chambers and Ed McAlpine
Anonymous
League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, Emeryville
Livermore Municipal Water
Pacific Horticulture
Glen and Connie Schneider
The Summer-Dry Project
Gold-backed Fern ($300)
Clytia and Joe Curley
Blue-eyed Grass ($250)
Brian and Jennifer Dirking
Barbara Feyerabend
John MacLennan
Kathleen Smith
Sorenson Vision
Lisa Stahr
Gumplant ($200)
Elizabeth (Betsy) King
Barbara Brandriff
Annis and Nick Kukulan
William McCormack
Sue Mellers
Coyote Brush ($180)
Rebecca Sang
Purple needle grass ($150)
Natalie Forrest
Melissa Hayes
Andrea Matsushima
Pat Rudebusch
Lupine ($100)
In memory of Sue Duckles, from Steven Cochrane
In memory of Kathleen Gonzalez, from her daughter, Lisa Gonzalez
In memory of Vera Lis, from Robin Mitchell
In memory of William Marlow, Landscape Designer, from John Springer
Academically Speaking
Mary Ashby
Stephen Asztalos
StevenB Berger
Wendy Bernstein
Barbara Berry
Susan Billings
Annette Billingsley
Vivian Bobka
Adriene and Barry Bosworth
Nathalie Brophy
Kristy Marcos Bueche
Sally Cahill
Linda Chapnick
James Cunradi
Maureen Decombe
Martha DeWitt
Barbara Gansmiller
Carrie Gustafson
Patricia Kale
Charleen Kubota
Carol Hardesty
Karen Hunt
Thomas Jefferson
Alton Jelks
Christy Johnson
Lily Johnson
Margaret Johnson
Patricia Kale
Photography by Kemmeo
Deborah Kramer
Charleen Kubota
Erica Lee
Alice Lewin
Pamela Magnussen-Peddle
Anthony Martin
Jane Martin
Valerie Matzger
Arthur McCaughy
Nick Mealy
Lynn McGann
Claudia Miller
Kate Miller
Robin Mitchell
Marty Morrow
Susan Munroe
Marie Narlock
Rosemary Neilan
Barbara Ouellet
Steve Reidman
Sue Rosenthal
Norman Rossman
Susan Rubio
Orsolya Salzberg
Misty Schmidt
Anne Severs
Vanessa Sheirich
Judith Sherwood
Sabrina Siebert
Jim and Jennifer Spinello
Jerilynn Stark
Laura Stevens
Barbara Stratton
Charles Thurston
Angela Tucker
April Uohara
Louise Velazquez
Norma Wallace
Rochelle Wheeler
Rebecca White
Jordan Wilkerson
Kelly Woodard
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