Planning and Starting Your Native Plant Garden

From Seed to Garden...

This Course Includes:
- Personalized design assistance for your native garden or meadow project 
- 100 native plant seedlings 
- Step-by-step, hands-on garden making over the course of a growing season. 
Preliminary planning
Planning your garden, species selection and layout, via Zoom or in the greenhouse at Just Food 
  • Four 90-minute sessions if on Zoom, or two 3-hour sessions at Just Food. 
  • Bring some photos of the space you are working with, if you have any, and the overall measurements and we’ll work through how to select species and plan how many you’ll need to fill the area. 
  • Will include information planning for seasonal bloom succession as well as species succession as your garden matures and selecting and placing species based on their roles and needs to facilitate the creation of a complex, thriving plant community.
Spring 
(April) Transplanting seedlings in the greenhouse at Just Food. 
(April or May -when the ground thaws) Hands-on garden preparation using the sheet mulch method at Just Food. 
(May) Working with annuals to prepare the garden soil -Hands on at Just Food . 
(May) Growing the perennials on in a nursery bed setting -Hands on at Just Food 
  • Take home up to 100 seedlings to put into a nursery bed at your project site
  • Suggestions for caring for and protecting young seedlings
Summer
(June and July) Tending the annual garden and the perennial nursery bed through the summer -Hands on at Just Food, two evening sessions, two to two and a half hours each. 

Next Fall
(October) Cutting back the annuals and transplanting the perennials into their final home -Likely a half day or so, on a weekend. 

Additional Information:
  • You can work with the species you are already growing or planning to seed this fall, as well as have access to most of the 100+ species that I’ll be seeding this fall as part of my Micro Nursery. 
  • The plants will be primarily herbaceous species, rather than trees or shrubs. The species I’ll have available don’t include the very slow growing forest species, like trillium, but will include some shade adapted species. There will be lots of sun loving and part shade species to choose from. 
  • The April until fall sessions will be on weekday evenings, likely Tuesday. The winter and October sessions will be on the weekend.
  • Minimum of 5, max 15 participants 
  • $495+hst, includes up to 100 seedlings
Please email me at sundaura@acultivatedart.com if you are interested in participating.
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