Native Plant Garden Maintenance: Pruning, Seed Collecting, Watering & More

Join us at the beautiful King Gillette Ranch Visitors Center for a volunteer maintenance event! We'll start with a walk around our native plant garden, exploring:

• Which plants are ready for seed collections, and how to make collect seed from them
• How to dead-head native plants for more flowers and color in your garden
• Shaping and pruning Manzanitas, Coffeeberry plants and more
• How to install and water new plants in Spring
• How to water older and less-established plants

After this initial walk around and lecture, attendees will split into small groups to get hands on experience with various aspects of native plant garden maintenance including:

• Installing new plants in the ground and watering them in
• Deadheading and shaping various native plants
• Weeding, raking and mulching in and around our garden
• Collecting seed and divisions from the garden
• ....and other maintenance tasks that come up!

This in-person class will take place outdoors at the King Gillette Visitors Center native plant garden. Most of the class will take place in an exposed, full sun/ part shade garden setting. Attendees should be prepared to stand for over 2 hours and be exposed to the sun for various lengths of time. Please wear hiking or outdoor working attire, bring water/reusable water bottle, sunscreen, and a sun hat.

The class will be led by Antonio Sanchez, nursery manager and restoration volunteer coordinator for the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. Antonio has over 15 years experience working with California native plants.

Questions? Please send to: [email protected]

Host or Publisher Santa Monica Mountains Fund