How to Cope with a Slope! Tips for Gardening on Hillsides

Hillsides are a challenge, whether they're dry or irrigated, sunny or shady. We will address many of the issues involved in hillside gardening and discuss site assessment, irrigation best practices, design techniques, and plant selection. We will also tour the sloped garden areas at GFE and see multiple practical ideas to inspire you. Wear comfortable walking shoes for varied terrain.

Instructor wears a number of hats as a gardener, garden coach, Certified Arborist, consultant and educator in San Francisco. Her checkered professional background includes landscaping, bookkeeping, teaching abroad, and community urban forestry with Friends of the Urban Forest. Visit her at www.garden-guidance.com

No walk-up registration permitted for this course.

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