This very large garden includes an adjacent public walkway (Globe Alley) that is also landscaped with native plants. Greg Gaar converted this yard from lawn […]

The Sutro Stewards native plant nursery and garden were established in 2013. We are located on Mt. Sutro Open Space Preserve, in the shadow of […]

When Katherine Roberts 1st bought her house on a quiet little street in Cole Valley in May 2003, both the house and gardens had been […]

Christine Okon got help from two landscape artists as she designed her steep yard into a wildlife friendly and beautiful place When Started: Started in November […]

Louis Webb’s Forest Hill garden has been popping with poppies for 15 years When started: about 15 yrs since I hired a garden designer Neighborhood: Forest Hill […]

Claudia’s Garden features dune and Greenstreak Butterfly host plants When started: 2013 Neighborhood: Inner Sunset Notable features: Dune, shade, slope and fog belt tolerant Favorite plants in your […]

Kate Levis woodland-inspired part-native garden in beautiful Noe Valley When started: The first plantings were in the fall of 2007, but I just planted a […]

This garden features a steep chert slope and several locally rare plants lovingly cared for by local biodiversity advocate Denise Louie Neighborhood: Mira Glen Design:  […]

Roger & Phyllis Erickson began planting natives in 2012 in their Westwood Highlands garden including a clever reuse of a driveway median When started:  2012 […]

After reading a small New York Times piece about the plight of native bees, Mary Beth Thibodeaux “decided to create one of the recommended “islands” providing […]

This backyard garden features a community of plants native to the western San Francisco Peninsula.  A nature trail winds through the low-medium profile dune-scrub habitat […]