Friendly Ocean-Friendly Gardening

Shaw’s Agave Native Plants of San Diego Coast – Pt. Loma

Lemonadeberry / BoxthornLemonadeberry / Sagebrush

LemonadeberryNative Plants of San Diego Coast – Torrey Pines, Pt. Loma

California Sagebrush

Native Plants of San Diego Coast – Torrey Pines City Park, Sunset Cliffs NP

BuckwheatsNative Plants of San Diego Coast – Black’s Canyon, La Jolla

Composites Goldenbush Goldenbush Sunflower

Sea dahlia

Maritime ChaparralGooseberry Boxthorn

Cliff spurge

Succulent ScrubBarrel Cactus Lady Fingers Coast Cholla

Chalk Dudleya Fish-hook Cactus

Native Plants of San Diego Coast - Torrey Pines SP

Ground Covers

Salt Grass Sand Verbena Sea Blite Wishbone Bush

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Native PlantRestoration Garden?

Linear Park (North End)

Linear Park (North End)

Our Goals:1. Promote public awareness of native plant gardening with a high-visibility restoration garden.

Our Goals:2. Set the “gold standard” in native garden design, joining ecological function and aesthetics to create a beautiful, locally native, sustainable garden.

Our Goals:3. Develop a committed corps (core) of volunteers who will establish and maintain the garden and lead open gardening activities.

Our Goals:

4. Use the Entry Garden as an example and cornerstone for the gradual restoration of natives throughout the Linear Park.

SunsetCliffs

Natural Park

Master Plan

Native Plant Preservation and Revegetation

Maritime Succulent Scrub, Southern Maritime Chaparral and Coastal Grasslands…. should be preserved, as well as expanded and reestablished….

In areas where native plants do not currently exist, revegetate with native plants.

SunsetCliffs

Natural Park

Master Plan

Native Plant Preservation and Revegetation

Additional plant cover will:

• reduce soil erosion

• retain surface groundwater

• provide cover for wildlife

• enhance scenic quality

SunsetCliffs

Natural Park

Master Plan

Restoration

1. Restore the Park to its former natural state including the removal of unnatural materials and elements.

3. Define Park image … by creating enhanced Park entries with appropriate entry identification, landscaping and trail heads.

4. Enhance Park image by providing for signage, …seating/resting forms, etc.… in an unobtrusive way.

SunsetCliffs

Natural Park

Master Plan

Park Entry

An identifiable park entry or point of arrival needs to be established at the intersection of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and Adair Street.

Create a Park Entrance … to identify the Park and the beginning of the proposed Sunset Cliffs Coastal Trail.

SunsetCliffs

Natural Park

Master Plan

Park Entry

Bluff top entry shall include appropriate

• Park identification signage

• Accent native plants

• Restoration of native plant cover

• Seating forms and trail head furnishings of natural materials

SunsetCliffs

Natural Park

Master Plan

Native Plant Preservation Program

• Implement a comprehensive revegetation program to address functional needs (accent, shade, massing, screening, definition, etc.)....

• Install accent landscaping to complement Park entry identification and interpretive signage.

• Plant native shrub and groundcover massings to define pedestrian trails.

Our Roles:Sunset Cliffs Park Council

• Advice and Consent

• Institutional memory of SCNP

• Liason with City

• Outreach to Sunset Cliffs community

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Our Roles:CNPS Garden Committee• Recruit 6–8 “Garden

Stewards” (6–8 hrs/mo.)

• Raise funds for purchase of plants, etc.

• Propagate more plants from cuttings and seeds

• Hold educational gardening activities for CNPS members

Our Roles:

Garden Native• Design landscape plan

for Entry Point Garden

• Provide horticultural training to garden stewards

• Outreach to professional landscapers

• (Develop conceptual restoration plan for Linear Park)

Issues:• Permits

• Surface hardpan

• Contour for drainage

• Temporary irrigation

• Trail constraints

• Eventual removal of fill placed over cliffs

• Vandalism, theft

Next Steps:• Confer with City Parks

Ranger

• Design Entry Point landscape

• Recruit CNPS volunteers

• Raise funds

• Propagate/ purchase plants

• Planting Fall 2013

Questions?

Discussion

Park Entry Restoration Garden