Native Gardens and Arboretums
Yes, Virginia, there are public native gardens to visit nearby! Most are small, but can give you ideas for creating beautiful landscapes with native plants.
Placerville
The Nature Nook
A special garden at the Placerville Library, created through the partnership of CNPS and El Dorado County Library, showcasing different habitat benefits of gardening with native plants.
Sherwood Demonstration Garden
This beautiful garden complex, created and run by the UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County, covers 1½ acres. It is located behind Folsom Lake College, El Dorado Center, in Placerville. One of the 15 themed gardens is exclusively native, and natives appear in many other of the themed gardens as well.
Gold Bug Park
Native plants are being gardened near Hattie's Gift Shop and the mine entrance. There is also a short interpretive trail at the park that teaches about foothill native plants.
EID Headquarters
There is a small drought-tolerant garden out front with several native shrub species, as well as rain water collection.
Nearby
The Nature Nook
A special garden at the Placerville Library, created through the partnership of CNPS and El Dorado County Library, showcasing different habitat benefits of gardening with native plants.
Sherwood Demonstration Garden
This beautiful garden complex, created and run by the UCCE Master Gardeners of El Dorado County, covers 1½ acres. It is located behind Folsom Lake College, El Dorado Center, in Placerville. One of the 15 themed gardens is exclusively native, and natives appear in many other of the themed gardens as well.
Gold Bug Park
Native plants are being gardened near Hattie's Gift Shop and the mine entrance. There is also a short interpretive trail at the park that teaches about foothill native plants.
EID Headquarters
There is a small drought-tolerant garden out front with several native shrub species, as well as rain water collection.
