The document discusses plans for a native plant restoration garden and park entry area at Sunset Cliffs Natural Park in San Diego. The goals are to promote public awareness of native plant gardening, set a high standard for native garden design combining function and aesthetics, and develop volunteer involvement. The park master plan calls for preserving and expanding native plant communities and establishing a clearly identifiable park entry. Next steps discussed include conferring with the city, designing the garden, recruiting volunteers, fundraising, and planting in the fall of 2013.

1. Friendly Ocean-Friendly Gardening

2. Shaw’s Agave
Native Plants of San Diego Coast – Pt. Loma

3. Lemonadeberry / Boxthorn
Lemonadeberry / Sagebrush
Lemonadeberry
Native Plants of San Diego Coast – Torrey Pines, Pt. Loma

4. California Sagebrush
Native Plants of San Diego Coast – Torrey Pines City Park, Sunset Cliffs NP

5. Buckwheats
Native Plants of San Diego Coast – Black’s Canyon, La Jolla

6. Composites
Goldenbush Goldenbush Sunflower Sea dahlia

7. Gooseberry Boxthorn
Maritime Chaparral
Cliff spurge

8. Barrel Cactus Lady Fingers Coast Cholla
Chalk Dudleya Fish-hook Cactus
Succulent Scrub Native Plants of San Diego Coast - Torrey Pines SP

9. Ground Covers
Salt Grass Sand Verbena Sea Blite Wishbone Bush

10. What’s wrong with this picture?

11. Native Plant
Restoration Garden?

12. Linear Park (North End)

13. Linear Park (North End)

14. Our Goals:
1. Promote public
awareness of native
plant gardening with
a high-visibility
restoration garden.

15. Our Goals:
2. Set the “gold
standard” in native
garden design,
joining ecological
function and
aesthetics to create a
beautiful, locally
native, sustainable
garden.

16. Our Goals:
3. Develop a
committed corps
(core) of volunteers
who will establish
and maintain the
garden and lead open
gardening activities.

17. Our Goals:
4. Use the Entry
Garden as an example
and cornerstone for
the gradual restoration
of natives throughout
the Linear Park.

18. Sunset
Cliffs
Natural
Park
Master
Plan
Native Plant Preservation and Revegetation
Maritime Succulent Scrub, Southern Maritime Chaparral
and Coastal Grasslands…. should be preserved, as well as
expanded and reestablished….
In areas where native plants do not currently
exist, revegetate with native plants.

19. Sunset
Cliffs
Natural
Park
Master
Plan
Native Plant Preservation and Revegetation
Additional plant cover will:
• reduce soil erosion
• retain surface groundwater
• provide cover for wildlife
• enhance scenic quality

20. Sunset
Cliffs
Natural
Park
Master
Plan
Restoration
1. Restore the Park to its former natural state including the
removal of unnatural materials and elements.
3. Define Park image … by creating enhanced Park entries with
appropriate entry identification, landscaping and trail heads.
4. Enhance Park image by providing for signage, …seating/resting
forms, etc.… in an unobtrusive way.

21. Sunset
Cliffs
Natural
Park
Master
Plan
Park Entry
An identifiable park entry or point of arrival needs to be
established at the intersection of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard and
Adair Street.
Create a Park Entrance … to identify the Park and the
beginning of the proposed Sunset Cliffs Coastal Trail.

22. Sunset
Cliffs
Natural
Park
Master
Plan
Park Entry
Bluff top entry shall include appropriate
• Park identification signage
• Accent native plants
• Restoration of native plant cover
• Seating forms and trail head furnishings of natural
materials

23. Sunset
Cliffs
Natural
Park
Master
Plan
Native Plant Preservation Program
• Implement a comprehensive revegetation program to address
functional needs (accent, shade, massing, screening, definition,
etc.)....
• Install accent landscaping to complement Park entry
identification and interpretive signage.
• Plant native shrub and groundcover massings to define
pedestrian trails.

24. Our Roles:
Sunset Cliffs
Park Council
• Advice and Consent
• Institutional memory
of SCNP
• Liason with City
• Outreach to Sunset
Cliffs community
• ??

25. Our Roles:
CNPS Garden
Committee
• Recruit 6–8 “Garden
Stewards” (6–8 hrs/mo.)
• Raise funds for purchase
of plants, etc.
• Propagate more plants
from cuttings and seeds
• Hold educational
gardening activities for
CNPS members

26. Our Roles:
Garden Native
• Design landscape plan
for Entry Point Garden
• Provide horticultural
training to garden
stewards
• Outreach to professional
landscapers
• (Develop conceptual
restoration plan for
Linear Park)

27. Issues:
• Permits
• Surface hardpan
• Contour for drainage
• Temporary irrigation
• Trail constraints
• Eventual removal of
fill placed over cliffs
• Vandalism, theft

28. Next Steps:
• Confer with City Parks
Ranger
• Design Entry Point
landscape
• Recruit CNPS volunteers
• Raise funds
• Propagate/ purchase
plants
• Planting Fall 2013

29. Questions?
Discussion

30. Park Entry
Restoration Garden