Chapter Meeting, November 3, 2011

Nov 19, 2011 by cnps2011

Thursday, November 3. 7 pm at the Vets Hall, SLO, Grand Ave. & Monterey St.

Horticulture Program

Randy Baldwin and His Favorite California Native for the Garden

Randy Baldwin is a partner and General Manager of San Marcos Growers, a wholesale nursery in Santa Barbara, California known in the nursery industry for the diversity of plants that it grows and for the introduction of new plants suitable for cultivation in California.

Randy has worked for San Marcos Growers for over 30 years and prior to this worked for a Santa Barbara retail nursery while completing a BA in Environmental Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. In his spare time Randy speaks to groups about his love of plants and writes the web pages for the San Marcos Growers Horticultural web site.

Randy and his family live in a turn of the century farm house on the nursery property. The gardens surrounding the house are a demonstration garden of many of the grasses, flax and drought tolerant plants that San Marcos Growers is known for. These gardens have been photographed often and have graced the pages of several books, magazines and calendars.