Rainbow Gardens Native Plant Demonstration Garden

Leads: Haeley Giambalvo and Teresa Maslonka

Workdays: As needed.

The San Antonio chapter was approached in early 2024 by Rainbow Gardens, a local, traditional nursery to create a native plant demonstration garden that would help educate and promote native plants to their customers. We felt this was an unprecedented opportunity to influence local gardeners as they are making plant purchase decisions, so we said “Yes! Absolutely!

With a large group of volunteers, we cleared a 6′ x 40′ garden bed of non-native plants, put down cardboard to suppress any remaining roots and topped with cardboard. Then we planted the following 17 species:

Silver Ponyfoot – Shrubby Boneset – Four Nerve Daisy – Mealy Blue Sage (Henry Duehlberg) – Lindheimer Muhly – Gulf Muhly – Gregg’s Mistflower – Kidneywood – Anacacho Orchid – Autumn Sage – Sideoats Grama – Little Bluestem – Twistleaf Yucca – Lanceleaf Coreopsis – Wooly Stemodia – Blackfoot Daisy – Red Yucca