BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Tijuana BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20200203T193000 RDATE:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 RDATE:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 RDATE:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 RDATE:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 RDATE:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 RDATE:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 RDATE:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 RDATE:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271107T010000 RDATE:20280312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 RDATE:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 RDATE:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 RDATE:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 RDATE:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 RDATE:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RDATE:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RDATE:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 RDATE:20271107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:America/Tijuana PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a30157ae93cc487c84980e3df2bcdf46 CATEGORIES:Native Plant Talks CREATED:20201230T213518 SUMMARY:Gardening for Biodiversity with Native Plants, a talk by Shelkie Tao LOCATION:Zoom and YouTube DESCRIPTION:Native gardens provide so many benefits. They are beautiful, low water, low maintenance and support a wide variety of wildlife. A major advantage of n ative gardens is that they can be a great place to help us preserve biodive rsity. \nCalifornia is a hotspot of biodiversity: it “is home (https://cali forniabiodiversityinitiative.org/pdf/california-biodiversity-action-plan.pd f) to more species of plants and animals than any other state, and is home to about one third of all species found in the United States, including mor e rare plants than most states have plants.”  However, “More than 30% (http s://wildlife.ca.gov/biodiversity) of California’s species are threatened wi th extinction.”\nThe good news is that our gardens can help restore and pre serve biodiversity. By planting a wide variety of native plants, including those that are facing extinction, native plant gardens can support plant bi odiversity while supporting a large number of insects, pollinators and othe r forms of wildlife.  In this meeting, Shelkie will talk about the biodiver sity benefits of native plants, and go through some of the plants she uses in the gardens she designed.\nShelkie Tao is landscape designer and founder of WaterEfficientGardens.com (https://waterefficientgardens.com/), an onli ne landscape design business that excels in low water and native plant gard en designs. She is a sustainability-driven entrepreneur committed to develo ping water-saving and ecosystem-friendly solutions.  Prior to Water Efficie nt Gardens, Shelkie worked over 10 years in the high tech industry in Silic on Valley.  She received her Certificate of Achievement in Environmental Ho rticulture and Design from Foothill College, and MBA from the Anderson Scho ol at UCLA.\nThis talk will be live streamed on YouTube (https://www.youtub e.com/c/CNPSSantaClaraValley) and Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/reg ister/tZcqde6oqjsiGtyIW2Py_wT_amKqgrhytnML) (requires advance registration) .\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Native gardens provide so many benefits. They are beautiful, low wat er, low maintenance and support a wide variety of wildlife. A major advanta ge of native gardens is that they can be a great place to help us preserve biodiversity. 

California is a hotspot of biodiversity: it “is&n bsp;home to more species of plants and animals than any other state, and is home to ab out one third of all species found in the United States, including more rar e plants than most states have plants.”  However, “More than 3 0% of California’s species are threatened with extinction.”

The good news is that our gardens can help restore and preserve biodiversit y. By planting a wide variety of native plants, including those that are fa cing extinction, native plant gardens can support plant biodiversity while supporting a large number of insects, pollinators and other forms of wildli fe.  In this meeting, Shelkie will talk about the biodiversity benefit s of native plants, and go through some of the plants she uses in the garde ns she designed.

Shelkie Tao is landscape designer and founder of&nbs p;WaterEfficientGardens.com, an online landscape design business that excels in low water and native plant garden designs. She is a sustainabilit y-driven entrepreneur committed to developing water-saving and ecosystem-fr iendly solutions.  Prior to Water Efficient Gardens, Shelkie worked ov er 10 years in the high tech industry in Silicon Valley.  She received her Certificate of Achievement in Environmental Horticulture and Design fr om Foothill College, and MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA.

This t alk will be live streamed on YouTube and Zoom (requires advance registration).

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