You can plant a meadow instead of a lawn! Native plants require no fertilizer, less water, and provide a variety of drought tolerant, lovely, easy to grow flowers for an attractive, easy to maintain front yard landscape! Because they have adapted to their environment and can tolerate drought, poor soil, and floods, they will take less…
Category: Botanic Garden
Tour of the Ventura Botanical Gardens
Organic Garden Club members experienced a gorgeous day for a tour at the Ventura Botanical Garden lead by Dr. Joe Cahill, the Executive Director. We walked through gardens representing the earth’s five Mediterranean climate zones and their native plants. Southern California being one of the five, the plants, after being established, thrive in our environment. …
Mary Freed’s Spring Tour of Conejo Botanic Garden
Mary Freed, longtime Conejo Botanic Garden docent and past president of the Organic Garden Club of Ventura County, guides us through the Garden and points out the spring splendor of the flowering plants and trees.
Mary Freed at “The Conejo Valley Botanic Garden”
Our photographer, Scott Horn, has shot and edited a great 25 minute video of Mary Freed giving a tour of the Conejo Valley Botanic Garden in Thousand Oaks, where she’s been a docent for 15 years. In the picture above, Mary Freed, Past President of the Organic Garden Club of Ventura County and Secretary of…
Organic Garden Club of Ventura County 