speaking

Interested in having Nan speak to your company, group, or organization? Here are some of her more popular talks:

For Home Gardeners

Edibles



  • Incredible! Edible and Water Wise; plants that produce with little water, and water-efficient ways to grow traditional vegetables, fruits, and herbs

  • Make Your Bed, Then Plant I: Building and growing a raised bed vegetable garden

  • Sprout! How to start annual vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits from seed

  • Gourmet Gardening - growing new, specialty, and gourmet varieties of fruits, herbs, and vegetables.

  • Landscaping with Herbs

  • Rare Fruits

  • Growing a Jewish Garden


Sustainable/Ecological/ Gardening



  • Bye Bye Grass - How to eliminate your lawn and what to plant in its place

  • Gorgeous Low Water Plants for California's Mediterranean Climate

  • 'Green' Your Garden - 10 easy steps to sustainable gardening

  • The 5-minute Waterwise Garden: Put together waterwise plant combinations in five minutes (best in a nursery setting)

  • Garden Within Your Watering Means: Big impact gardens with small impact water bills

  • Garden Treasures from Arid Mexico and the Southwest

  • Incredible! Edible and Water Wise

  • Make Your Bed, Then Plant It: Building and growing a raised bed vegetable garden

  • Sprout! How to start annual vegetables, herbs, flowers and fruits from seed

  • From Sticks to Stems The basics of starting new plants from cuttings


More...



  • A Rainbow of Salvias

  • Plentiful Poppies -- annual, perennial, shrub, and even tree poppies

  • Growing a Jewish Garden


 


For Landscapers, Landscape Architects, Planners and other Professional Groups



  • Promoting Community Wellness Through the Natural and Planted Landscape

  • Leaders of Change: Altering Society's Concepts of Beauty Through Public Landscapes that are Both Beautiful and Low Water.




Have an idea for at talk you'd like to hear? Let's talk about it.