Webinar: Wildflowers from Seed – Grow Your Own Wildflower Habitat In Any Size Garden Space

If you dream of creating a wildflower garden, now is the time to get planning and planting! Join our plant expert Dan Alexander as he shares how to start flowers from seed and discusses where to plant, types of soil, sun exposure, and the benefits of planting native wildflowers in the Bay Area.

Favorite Wildflowers:

• California poppy
• California buttercup
• Sky lupine
• Purple chinese houses
• Farewell to spring
• Red ribbons
• Red maids
• Baby blue eyes
• Cream cups
• Five spot

Why Native Wildflowers?

Resources:

Seeds: Larner’s Seeds www.larnerseeds.com

What native grows here? wwwcalscape.org

App: North California Wildflowers

App: Picture This National movement: www.homegrownnationalpark.org

www.sloatgardens.com

Discussion

• What you’ll need to germinate seeds
• A brief botany lesson
• Technique Demonstration: bean sprouts in ziplock bag
• Sowing indoors for transplanting
• Native grasses are wildflowers too!
• Sowing directly in the soil
• Plant recognition: California poppy
• Discussion of milkweeds, native vs. tropical and others
• Cold, moist stratification
• What did we learn?

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