Native Horticultural Symposium - 2019
Gardening for Biodiversity in a Climate Crisis
Date and Time: September 21, 2019, 9am - 5pm.
"Garden as if life depended on it." -- Doug Tallamy
The symposium featured keynote speaker, Douglas Tallamy, author of Bringing Nature Home, and Bart O’Brien, Director of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden and the co-author of Reimagining the California Lawn.
The insect Armageddon, the collapse of the western Monarch butterfly, The Sixth Extinction—we are losing species at an alarming rate. Contributors to this crisis include invasive species, the ubiquitous European lawn, non-native landscapes and the loss of wild areas. Landscape professionals and home gardeners can act to turn this trend around. This one-day symposium showed you how to be part of the solution.
Videos of the presentations at the 2019 symposium are linked below:
- Restoring the Little Things that Run the World - Douglas Tallamy, Professor of Entomology University of Delaware and author of Bringing Nature Home
- The Insect Apocalypse, Pollinators, and Climate Change - Angela Laws, The Xerces Society, Monarch and Pollinator Ecologist
- Urban Survivors: Butterfly Conservation in the City of San Francisco - Liam O’Brien, Leptidopterist, The Green Hair Streak Project
- Resilient Bee Landscapes - Kimberly Chacon, Landscape Design, PhD student UC Davis, Bee Habitat Analysis and Design
- What You Can Do Now - Bart O’Brien, Director, Director of the Regional Parks Botanic Garden, CNPS Fellow and the co-author of Reimagining the California Lawn
Venue: Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Rd, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
South: Sat, May 04, 2019, 10:00am to 4:00pm
Did you know that California has more native plant species than any other state in the nation? To honor California’s incredible plant life, the California State Legislature designated the third week of April to be California Native Plant Week in 2010. To celebrate, join our Chapter at one of the many activities we've scheduled during this special week.
