Wildflower Workshop & Volunteer Day

South Pasadena Beautiful, in collaboration with Friends of South Pas Nature Park, is excited to announce that Leigh Adams, an artist, eco-sensitive designer, and educator, will lead a hands-on Wildflower Workshop. Leigh will guide us through best practices for growing native wildflowers, and together we’ll experiment with different seed treatments to improve germination. Given the limited rain this year, we’ll focus our sowing efforts in areas that will be watered, including the Demonstration and Butterfly Gardens.

Join us to help create a vibrant spring bloom in the park and learn how you can replicate these practices in your own garden!

We will also work in the park pruning, weeding and picking up litter.

Volunteers should:
– wear sunscreen, hat, sunglasses
– bring water
– bring gardening gloves and tools (weeders, trowels, whatever you use in your own garden), there are extra tools for those who need them
– wear comfortable work clothes, including work shoes (sneakers or boots); light weight long pants and long-sleeved shirts
– bring binoculars for birdwatching (optional)

Children must be under adult supervision at all times. There is poison oak in the park that we will point out before starting. If you are planning to bring more than five in a group, please email me so we can be sure to have enough tools (barbara@weedingwildsuburbia.com).

The South Pas Nature Park is a four-acre habitat park along the Arroyo Seco. The entrance, marked by a small plaque on an attractive river rock wall, is in the 100 block of Pasadena Avenue in South Pasadena, east of the York Blvd Bridge. There is plenty of on-street parking on Pasadena Avenue.

The park is graced with mature coast live oaks, southern walnuts and western sycamores. Planted with sage, buckwheat and other native coastal sage scrub plants, the park provides an inviting environment for birds, lizards, squirrels and numerous other critters. Locals too enjoy walking, jogging and horseback riding through the park.