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
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