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Speaker

Steve Brigham

Steve is a career plantsman and naturalist with experience in botanical
gardens, nurseries, and garden design in a wide range of West Coast
climates. For 20 years, he developed and operated Buena Creek Gardens, a
retail rare-plant nursery and display garden in northern San Diego County
that has introduced many outstanding garden plants into the nursery trade. In
2005, he created the Bird and Butterfly Garden at Buena Creek Gardens,
which features over 700 species and cultivars of ornamental plants. He is the
author of Ornamental Trees for Mediterranean Climates. Steve currently
lives and gardens with his wife, Donna, on the Mendocino Coast of
California. He is an horticultural consultant for www.TheMulch.com and an
occasional contributor to Pacific Horticulture.

Seminars/Events

Sustainable Wildlife Gardening

Attracting Birds & Butterflies to Your Garden & Keeping Them There

Saturday September 25th at 08:45 am

Without wildlife, even the grandest garden is just an empty
theater. But the wildlife-friendly garden is an always-changing
show that you'll never want to miss! No matter where you live,
the secrets to a sustainable bird and butterfly garden are diversity
and consistency, and the goal is to create a garden where the hotel
never closes and the restaurant is always open. This illustrated talk
will help you see your garden from the animals' perspective, so
that you can truly understand and do what makes them happy. It
will also focus on the many showy (and uncommon) garden plants
that birds and butterflies like best. You'll learn how to attract
wildlife in a sustainable way, and also how to have a much more
beautiful garden in the process!

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