Category: Native Garden Photo Gallery

by Stacey Pogorzelski

The yard conversion of a multi-generational family home came with many challenges. The removal of a pool and old deck freed space for edibles and native bunchgrasses near the house.Pool

The beautiful cycle of natural connections between native plants and native pollinators is the focus of this garden. A variety of perennials and shrubs that bloom throughout the seasons offer sustenance for a diversity of pollinators; each section of the garden focuses on some of the plants favored by a specific type of pollinator.  This slideshow describes the building of this garden at the Bay Model in Sausalito in 2018-19.

This coastal native habitat garden in West Marin features a native hedgerow with lots of manzanitas and other native shrubs and perennial bordens packed with native plants to provide habitat for beneficial insects, birds and butterflies.

This is a recently planted native garden in West Marin that is fully exposed to sun and wind.  Significan positive interaction with neighbors as the garden evolved made this garden a community builder.

In 2012, the Marin Chapter of CNPS created a native plant demonstration garden at Green Point Nursery.  This slide show takes you through the process of creating this garden. (Note that this demonstration garden no longer exists since the Chapter no longer has the use of space at Green Point Nursery.)

The finished demonstration garden filled in quicklyThis The garden had to be created from scratch on bare flat ground.  To create aesthetic interest and better drainage, a berm was constructed to which large rocks were added.  Although most home gardens will use existing soil and terrain rather than a newly constructed berm, the planning steps and construction sequence that we used for this demonstration garden are similar to those used in creating a home garden.