There is a University TGIF grant to make a propagation house and native garden in the west courtyard of Giannini Hall. Most of the plants from the propagation house will be used to restore Strawberry Creek using watershed-local native plants, but the garden is for ESPM and the campus to tend, enjoy, and learn from. The propagation house is half-built, and we're looking for volunteers to help design, plant, and maintain the garden itself.

If you'd like to work on the garden design (sketch attached), add yourself to a section below (using the Edit button above to let yourself edit the page).

You could also join the ESPM gardeners' mailing list, by visiting

https://calmail.berkeley.edu/manage/list/

and subscribing to espm_garden@lists.berkeley.edu

or join the bSpace site now called "Strawberry Creek Native Plant Nursery (SCNPN)". (The bSpace site also talks about things other than gardening, e.g., engineering the shadehouse.)

Here are the sub-projects in the garden, and the people who have signed themselves up. (possibly those groups can make wiki pages to coordinate/show their plans, and link from here. I don't know how to balance between 'use the tool that works for you' and 'if we're all using different tools no-one will know what we're doing'.)

Project	People	Comments
Collecting for propagation into Strawberry Creek		EH&S plans this, probably through the bSpace site
Tending plants in the shadehouse		The 'work' of the garden, but someone has to do it, or bring cookies and cold drinks for the people doing it.
Design and maintain N wedge, N half	Sheri Spiegal (and her lab?)	Hot, dry; under cottonwood; lots of grasses?
Design/maintain W wedge, N half		Fairly dry, short and 'formal' (controlled growth habits)
Design/maintain S wedge, N half		Fairly dry, has lots of foot passersby, of short to moderate height
Design/maintain E wedge, N half		Dry, but gets the biggest and rangiest plants, to about 8-10 feet.
Design/maintain W wedge, S half		Can have additional water; needs relatively short tidy plants
Design/maintain N wedge, S half		Can have additional water; medium height plants, lots of foot traffic, convenient to shadehouse. Flowers? Butterflies??
Composting	Thomas Azwell?	We need an agreed level of yuckiness at which we will shut down the pile, and composters good enough that we never get that yucky. Can probably go behind the shadehouse, or between it and the dumpsters.
Make plant list a searchable list		or even a webpage with links to images from native plant websites
	Suding lab; Mio Kitayama; Allison Kidder