L.A. Native Plant Connection, LLC is headed by Jill Davis Doughtie, who has been gardening with local native plants since 2009.
She began studying local native plants formally in 2018, and she founded L.A. Native Plant Connection, LLC in 2022.
Her home garden uses local native plants, arranged the way they grow in nature. She works with wildlife gardens of all kinds, from formal to naturalistic, and from hyper local to inclusive of plants from all over the world. Her goal with L.A. Native Plant Connection, LLC is to connect more Los Angeles native plants with Los Angeles area gardens and to support habitat for pollinators and wildlife Southern California’s built environment.
She regularly participates in continuing education related to botany, ecology, and horticulture.
Selected continuing education:
Native Seed Virtual Conference, February 2024
Introduction to Aesthetic Pruning, Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Pruning Club, January 2024
Introduction to Poaceae, The Jepson Herbarium, November 2023
The Art of Tree and Shrub Reduction, Merritt College Landscape Horticulture Pruning Club, November 2023
Southern California Botanists Symposium, October 2023
California Native Plant Landscaper Certificate Program, Theodore Payne Foundation, July 2023
Ornamental Plants for Southwest Climates, Mt. San Antonio College, Spring 2023
California Native Plant Society Conference, October 2022
Horticultural Science, Mt. San Antonio College, Fall 2022
Plant Identification, Citrus College, Spring 2021
Field Biology (BIO 14), Pasadena City College, Fall 2018