President’s Message
🌼 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 🌼
We are hard at work getting ready for our next plant sale. We will be working at DIG’s Garden, 3900 Sellers Ave., Brentwood, from 10am to noon Saturdays starting January 17th. If you are interested in what we do you are welcome to come check it out on Saturdays. We are looking forward to our Annual Plant Sale on May 9, 2026.
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Our next regular meeting is Monday, March 23, 2026, 7:30pm at the Brentwood Community Methodist Church, 809 Second Street, Brentwood, CA
The public is welcome to attend. Our Program will be:
This month we will be learning all about using California Natives in our gardens!
Jim Breuner and his wife, Nan, moved to Brentwood from Orinda in early May of 2025. He has nurtured a passion of California natives since he first started gardening many years ago. His former Orinda garden was full of natives, along with other non-native plants that do well in our Mediterranean climate. His criteria for plant selection are: 1) deer resistant, 2) clay tolerant, 3) drought resistant, and 4) attracts pollinators, in no order of importance. Extra points if it’s a California native! He’s gotten a lot of inspiration from attending and volunteering at the annual “Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour” for many years.
He graduated from the UC Master Gardener Program in Contra Costa County in 2024. Since then, he continues to put in many volunteer hours at the Gehringer Native Plant Demo Garden in Concord and at the “Ask a Master Gardener” table at the Framer’s Market in Martinez. He loves talking to people about California natives and is eager to share what he’s learned with others. In this presentation Jim will explain the importance of planting CA natives, including their role in local ecosystems, their evolution with and in support of local wildlife, and the tendency of many of them to be low maintenance, low water usage plants in a world that’s getting hotter due to climate change.
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