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Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tours – Berkeley’s Pollinators Beautifying

Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tours - Berkeley's Pollinators Beautifying

2025sat03may10:00 am5:00 pmBringing Back the Natives Garden Tours - Berkeley's Pollinators Beautifying

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Saturday & Sunday, May 3 & 4

Pollinator pathway: 1 traffic circle, 2 front gardens, & 7 parking strips. Ripe with pollinators, beautifying the street. Tour this community effort in Berkeley!

Lot size: 1 traffic circle 20’ in diameter; 7 parking strips, ranging in size from 20′ to 80′ long x 3’ wide and totaling 200 running feet, 100% native; one front garden is 400 sq. ft.; the adjacent front garden is 250 sq. ft.

Garden Age: The oak in the traffic circle was planted in 2005; the rest of the Pollinator Pathway was installed in stages between 2019 and 2023

It was a desire to recreate lost habitats of the East Bay—the wildflower meadows, grasslands, and oak savannas that existed here hundreds of years ago—and to provide resources for the wildlife that depend upon native plants for food, shelter, and nesting areas—that started this project.

Rewilding the neighborhood started in 2005, when neighbors planted a coast live oak seedling and native plants, such as gumplant, manzanita, California lilac, and fuchsia, in the traffic circle at Russell and Fulton in Berkeley. It continued 14 years later.

Knowing that there is a remarkable increase in wildlife when native plant cover increases to at least 70% of an area, and that the habitat is still more valuable with patches or drifts of the same plant (as opposed to just one of this and one of that), the parking strips were designed to contain multiple plants of the same type.

 Check it out! Your own garden can help bring back some of the lost landscapes in your city!

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