California Native Gardens - Class #1 January 25, 2013

Come learn the secrets of how to groom, prune, and rejuvenate some of the trickiest California native plants, such as manzanita and redbud. Lecturer Dee Wong will draw from her field experience and the 'must have' manual, Care & Maintenance of Southern California Native Plant Gardens, written by Bart O'Brien, Betsey Landis, and Ellen Mackey. She will show you how she guides her team of gardeners to care for and maintain beautiful native plant gardens. This class will be a talk with a slide show about California native plants in the garden. (We hope you will also join us for Class #2 on February 1.)

Dee Wong graduated with high honors from Foothill College with an A.S. degree in Environmental Horticulture and is a passionate advocate for using sustainable landscape management practices and California native plants. She is also an avid wild plant and flower photographer, hiking all over the Bay Area and learning from Mother Nature's classroom. Dee believes in working with Mother Nature's seasonal changes and uses Mother Nature's rhythm of life to her best advantage in managing the landscape. Dee joined The Village Gardener in 2004. She came from a corporate environment with a varied background in office management, human resources, project management, photography and graphics, and executive search research, and most recently from the nursery and landscape industry. She is now the maintenance Division Manager at the Village Gardener. She is also a certified Water Manager with CLCA and EPA Water Sense Partner program and an active Member and Treasurer of the California Native Plant Society - Santa Clara Valley Chapter.

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