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Catkin Horticultural Arts
I wish to engage in deeper understanding of a space, a garden, the larger ecoregion including the ways the more-than-human beings inhabit, utilize and change the landscape and plant communities, before beginning to change a space or garden to fit imagined first needs of the human inhabitants.
Specialty
One of my primary concerns in my work has become attempting to support as many beings and organisms as possible on a site, in a garden, in a larger project, while creating a beautiful and vibrant, dynamic, life-giving space for the human occupants as well. Becoming of increasing importance and effort is the reduction and hoped for elimination of the use of fuel driven machines and the consumption of plastic in the form of irrigation tubing and plastic pots.
Region Served
Oregon, Washington
In Their Own Words...
Member Spotlight
Supporting the Role of Nature in Human Health, Drought Resilience, and Supporting Biodiversity
What's the best gardening advice you ever received?
Take the time it takes to get to know the nuances of a site before embarking on any changes.
Where do you find Inspiration?
The sea, the forests and grasslands, natural spaces around me in my larger west coast region. Designers and practitioners from a global community of ecological designers and plants people.
What is something surprising about your history?
I was raised in a wonderful old garden in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was what formed me along with the natural landscape by which it was surrounded and the animals that lived there, and live there still.
What are you most proud of?
I feel most proud of my work when I can reduce the use of fuel and plastic and encourage the growing of native or adapted plants that fit aesthetically and culturally into a space that creates habitat for native animals and insects.
What educational resources do you share?
I often send new clients to multiple books and periodicals including Wonderground Press, Pacific Horticulture and many others.. I suggest online resources from Pacific Horticulture and Garden Masterclass, California Native Plant Society, Xerces, and WSU Master Gardener Program.