Normalize Planting Native Wildflowers 🪄✨🌱🌸🐝🦋
Our mission is to democratize gardening and fight plant inequity and nature deficiencies by sharing our knowledge and passion about sustainable garden design & landscaping. We’re in awe of the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been inspired to responsibly spread native wildflower seeds throughout their communities. You have the potential to change the world. We are asking how we can encourage sustainable habitats within our communities, business, and governments.
We invite you to join us in asking how we can reintroduce native habitat to urban and other spaces.
Our Mission
To democratize gardening and fight plant inequity and nature deficiencies by sharing our knowledge and passion about sustainable garden design & landscaping. Sixty percent of our food is dependent on beneficial pollinator insects, which are under threat due to encroachment on their habitats, pesticides, and erratic weather caused by climate change. People are looking for ways to make a positive impact, and we strive to make it fun and easy by seasoning the earth. With a Parmesan cheese shaker filled with native wildflower seeds, we make gardening fun and accessible.
Shalaco, SFinBloom Founder
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Classes
Transform your lawn into a native habitat garden.
Overview of how to convert your lawn to a native habitat garden that is drought tolerant and supports birds and insects.
Intro to Irrigation
Drip irrigation changed my life. This workshop walks you through the set-up of a drip irrigation system and everything you need.
Tiny World Planter Workshop
Learn to create miniature worlds that look amazing from every angle and can add an accent, privacy, and life to any room with our tiny world planter workshop.
<10 minutes | $5
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How do I know what is native to where I live?
So you want to plant native wildflowers…
What are Native vs Invasive plants:
Native plants consist of endemic and indigenous species. In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention. When a species is indigenous, it's found in a particular location and surrounding areas and contributes to it’s ecosystem. An endemic species, however, is a native species found only in a particular area, large or small(from a continent to a square inch).
An "invasive species" is defined as a species that is Non-native (or alien) to the ecosystem under consideration; and, whose introduction causes or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health. (Executive Order 13112).
Video References:
How-to plant native pollinator wildflowers - our tips and tricks
Where can I get native seeds?
Where do you get your seeds?
Is it legal to spread native wildflower seeds?
The dangers of spreading germinating birdseed
Online Resources:
(If you have additional resources to add please contact us.)
US: National Wildlife Federation’s Plant Finder[BETA]
California: California Native Plant Society.
National Invasive Species Counci:l http://invasivespecies.gov
National Invasive Species Information Center: http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/
Native plant database http://wildflower.org/plants/
Native plants for birds https://www.audubon.org/native-plants
ASPCA Poisonos plant search for dogs and cats etc.
New Zealand: Native Plants of New Zealand Flowers, Shrubs, and Trees
If you have resources to add email us at sfinbloom@shalaco.com
If you are looking for resources for your region and don’t see them drop a comment here.