Top natives for Bay Area gardens: Stefanie Pruegel
Top natives for Bay Area gardens: Stefanie Pruegel
by Stefanie Pruegel, for the 2021 Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour
Which California native plants for the garden are the best to support our local wildlife and are also easy to grow, readily available in nurseries, drought tolerant and beautiful? Inspired by Doug Tallamy (“Nature’s Best Hope”, “Bringing Nature Home”) and his take on keystone species, this talk gives an overview of the top plants for the San Francisco Bay Area wildlife garden and some of the butterflies and moths each of them is host to.
Stefanie Pruegel has a large native plant garden in San Leandro. See her garden featured on the 2020 tour: https://www.bringingbackthenatives.net/stefanie-pruegel%E2%80%99s-garden
5:29 There is a picture of goldenrod with a invasive grass in it. I have this same grass everywhere. What is devil of a grass called? Thanks
That was super informative, thank you! I’m slowly adding CA natives to our home and this is a great resource.
we planted 25 santa cruz 2 inch redwoods seedlings after the 91 fire, now they are over 0 ft tall, montclair next to public path between valley view and doncaster
Amazing video. I am about to rent my first house and there is no grass ion the front or back. I have seen a big push for putting native plants instead of grass. This helped so much!