Shade Gardening with California Native Plants, CNPS Yerba Buena Speaker Program

Garden successfully in San Francisco using our local California native plants to benefit yourself and our local ecosystems. Local San Francisco native plants evolved to adapt to our local soils and climate, including many plants that thrive in shade because they evolved as understory plants beneath taller plants and trees. We’ll discuss colorful and edible plants that thrive in shade in San Francisco, including shallow rooted plants that thrive in pots. Shady native plant list and edible (ethnobotany) native plant lists, in addition to many other native plants lists on CNPS-YB website http://cnps-yerbabuena.org/biodiversi... Susan Karasoff gardens in San Francisco’s clay soil. Susan is a board member and Outreach Chair of the California Native Plant Society - Yerba Buena (San Francisco) chapter. She brings an an “only the easiest plants survive” approach to gardening. Susan grows a buffet of colorful native edible and pollinator plants, specifically gardening to feed caterpillars, bees, hummingbirds and people. More info about each native plant is at Calscape, CNPS’s plant selection tool, with pictures, sizes and water needs for native plants. It includes which plants use which lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) as caterpillar plants. https://www.calscape.org/