Native Plant Selection Committee members Kathy Dilley and Pete Haggard working in the Lost Coast Brewery native Plant Garden.

                                                        Photo:  Karen Angel

     The Lost Coast Brewery Native Plant Garden will be a central educational component in the Humboldt Botanical Garden.

     HBGF is especially interested in maintaining complete Native Conifer, Iris and Lily collections. The propagating and growing of the endangered Lilium occidentale (western lily) in the Native Garden with related greenhouse and education activities will be of special interest to the Garden's horticulturists and visitors.

     The Native Plant Garden will have an emphasis on the Humboldt Region, but will include plants in the geographic area from the Rogue River in Oregon to the north shore of San Francisco Bay and inland to a north-south line which runs from Vacaville through Williams, Redding, Yreka, Medford, and then follows the Rogue River to its mouth. Native plants for the Garden's purpose would have some part of their range in this geographical area prior to October 12, 1492.

     The Native Plant Garden will provide visitors with striking examples of how native plants can be aesthetically integrated and used to conserve resources as well as to create a beautiful cultivated landscape. The resources-conserving benefits of using less water, fertilizer, pesticides, and maintenance will be emphasized.

Lilium occidentale (Western Lily).

Photo: Courtesy of Brother Alfred Brousseau, St. Mary's College

Iris douglasiana.

Photo: Karen Angel