My name is Jill Elizabeth Davis (Doughtie) and I have been gardening with California native plants for about fifteen years.
Beyond gardening with native plants, I started formally studying them in 2018. In 2021 I began gardening professionally, and in 2022 I started L.A. Native Plant Connection, LLC.
My home garden uses local native plants, arranged the way they grow in nature. I love working with wildlife gardens of all kinds, from formal to naturalistic, and from hyper local to inclusive of plants from all over the world. My 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 at home where we live, so we can all have nature in our lives every day.
I regularly participate 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