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The Melissa Garden is a honeybee sanctuary in Healdsburg, CA, that is being created to provide honeybees with a place to live natural lives, insulated from known stressors, and nourished in a beautiful setting (to check it out, visit The Melissa Garden). This class will be taught by garden designer Kate Frey and garden owner Barbara Schlumberger. The goal will be to teach you how to grow your own bee sanctuary by explaining the flower characteristics that attract bees, and will identify annuals, perennials, and shrubs that bees prefer. Kate is an internationally distinguished garden designer who has been awarded two gold medals at London's Chelsea Flower Show. She worked for 18 years at Fetzer's organic gardens in Hopland, CA which was used as a test plot for pollinators by Dr. Gordon Frankie at U. C. Berkeley. She now specializes in creating beautiful habitat and pollinator gardens. The Melissa Garden is located at Barbara's home ranch. Barbara works as a psychotherapist, and is a process painter.
Our mission is to conserve plants suited to the climate of the Mendocino Coast and display them for the enjoyment and education of our guests.
The Mendocino Coast Botanical Garden offers everything from colorful displays to thunderous waves. The mild maritime climate makes it a garden for all seasons, attracting gardeners and nature lovers. With manicured formal gardens, a dense coastal pine forest, native flora and habitats, fern-covered canyons, camellias, rhododendrons, magnolias and conifers, heaths and heathers, and flower-filled coastal bluffs overlooking the blue ocean, the garden is a jewel on the Pacific Coast.
