🌿 Discover the Beauty and Benefits of California Native Plants 🌸 Join us at The Learning Garden – May 10 at 1 PM

Learn How Native Plants Can Transform Your Garden and Help the Environment

Want to reduce your garden’s water use, pesticide reliance, and maintenance time—and your carbon footprint? Would you also love to enjoy a vibrant succession of blooms while attracting native birds, butterflies, and bees?

You can have it all.

Join us for an inspiring afternoon in the California Native Plant section of The Learning Garden, where Master Gardeners Claire Gerard and Joy Tucker will share their deep-rooted passion and practical knowledge about gardening with California natives.

The presentation includes a walk among the wild things, please wear closed shoes and bring a hat.

🌱 Meet Your Hosts
Claire Gerard spent her professional life teaching in Montessori schools and her weekends marveling at the quiet miracles in her vegetable plot. After retiring, she earned her Master Gardener certification in 2014 and has been sharing her love for food gardening and California natives ever since. She finds joy in tending the CA native plot at Venice High and treasures the community of gardeners she’s met along the way.

Joy Tucker is a Los Angeles native, UCLA alum, and lifelong gardener who became a Master Gardener in 2017. Joy has led workshops on everything from vegetable and container gardening to native plants, served as a docent for the Theodore Payne Foundation Native Plant Tour, and volunteered at the Huntington Gardens. She now helps cultivate the California Native section of The Learning Garden.

📍 Where: The Learning Garden,13000 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066 (Venice Boulevard at Walgrove)
🗓 When: Saturday, May 10th at 1:00 PM

Come explore how gardening with native plants is not only sustainable but deeply rewarding.

We can't wait to see you there!