Wildly Successful Plants with Pam Peirce - talk in Orinda (SF Bay Area)

Wildly Successful Plants - a talk by Pam Peirce

October 27th  (Saturday) 1:30pm

We are very fortunate to have local Mediterranean Garden Society member and
Medit-Plants participant, Pam Peirce, speaking for our Branch. A well-known
author (Golden Gate Gardening) and environmental horticulture instructor at
San Francisco City College, Pam will base her talk upon her latest book Wildly
Successful Plants: Northern California (http://gimcw.org/books/wspncpp.cfm).
This wonderful book explores 50 plants that survive with little or no care in
regional gardens. Many are devalued by sophisticated gardeners, but Pam
maintains that these common, easy plants are truly regional garden treasures.
They offer drought tolerance, deer resistance, year-round bloom, and other
choice features. Her book tells how to care for them and reclaim them for use
in fine garden design. She also includes information on how to get the same
easy-care features from some of their less common varieties and related
species.

It is no surprise that many of these plants came from mediterranean climate
areas, but the origins of some of them are truly surprises. Pam also recovered
many unexpected pieces of horticultural history in tracing how these plants
came to be in so many of our gardens. Finally, unlike many books dealing with
plants that are a bit vigorous, Pam tackles head-on the issues of management,
removal, and preventing wildland invasion.

If you secretly admire some rather common Bay Area flowers, or just wonder
where they came from and how to use them in fresh ways, come and hear Pam?s
presentation. After her talk, we will have light refreshments and an
opportunity to meet the speaker as well as other MGS members.

Orinda Library, 24 Orinda Way, Orinda.  A $10 donation is requested.  Copies
of our Garden Resource Guide for Northern California (see MGS web site below)
will also be available for an additional donation.

Map to Orinda Library -
http://tinyurl.com/2cf5jc

For more info about the MGS -
http://www.gimcw.org/mgs/CA_No/

Seán A. O'Hara
sean(at)gimcw.org
www.hortulusaptus.com
(ask about mediterranean climate gardening forum)
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