Lot size: 10,000 sq. ft. back garden, 60% native

Garden Age: Garden was installed in 2014

Years on the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour: New this year!

Showcase Feature
This large back garden, designed by Roxy Designs and Kelly Marshall of Kelly Marshall Garden Design, contains something for everyone. The fountains that were placed near the house delight walking and winged visitors alike. The herb garden and blueberry patch are within each reach of the patio. An orchard (apple, cherry, pluot, persimmon, apricot, peach, plum, citrus and more) is on the second level, near the splashing stream. Chickens are off to the right, in the shade. The extensive vineyard flows down the slope. Planted under and around these various garden features are a wide variety of native plants. A dozen Pacific wax myrtle, six types of manzanita (‘Austin Griffiths’, ‘Big Sur’, ‘Dr. Hurd’, ‘Emerald Carpet’, ‘John Dourley’, and ‘Louis Edmunds’), California lilac, and Mendocino reed, Pacific reed, and deer grass anchor the garden. Near the house, rosy buckwheat fills one border bed, and California fuchsia another.

Other Garden Attractions
• Drop down into one of the many seating areas and rest; you won’t want to leave.

Gardening for Wildlife
The winning combination of water tumbling down the twenty-five-foot hillside stream and into the peaceful pond, two burbling fountains, hummingbird, oriole, and finch feeders, and plants of various heights (from mature redwood and oak trees to groundcovers, and everything in between) has attracted more than fifty species of birds. Frogs found the pond on their own, and can now be heard croaking cheerily in the evenings. Foxes and coyotes have been spotted in the back garden, searching for snacks of insects, fruit, or rodents.

Garden Talks
11:00 “How to work California natives into any garden” by Kelly Marshall