Arranging California native plants in bouquets, garlands: Speaker: Cynthia Gingerich

Floral arrangements in this segment. We will have a future segment about garlands and wreaths.
Speaker: Cynthia Gingerich
Join us to learn more about arranging California native plants in bouquets, garlands and wreaths.
In 2019 Cynthia visited private and public gardens that featured California native plants in 3 countries and 5 US states; some highlights were wildflower meadows at North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve in April, ceanothus and penstemon in Canada in May, and Matilija poppies in England in July. During that year she also began foraging in her own native garden for flowers, foliage, branches and seed pods to create a variety of natives-only arrangements which were displayed both indoors and out. Some of those bouquets illustrated an article in CNPS’s Flora magazine (www.cnps.org/f...) and she’s continued to create arrangements in all seasons and sizes throughout the years since then. More photos are at the Facebook Group for California Native Plant Society. / 10158316165849276
When Cynthia’s native garden was accepted for the 2022 Growing Natives Garden Tour, it had to be viewed online only due to lack of parking space and accessibility, so she created 3 videos about growing and arranging native plants in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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Cynthia Gingerich, our speaker, explains her history with California native plants in the talk description above. She is an avid native plant photographer and gardener and a member of CNPS chapters for Santa Cruz County and Santa Clara Valley.
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