Native Trees of Mission Trails Regional Park 

Very lovely and informative presentation by Heidi. Thank you trees for all your blessings.

Super helpful and informative, great job! I'm redoing our front slope and will be getting some of these natives, for sure.

Thank you so much for this wonderful information. Hope one day I have a yard to plant lots of trees and shrubs

Very well done.

Great video. Can we keep leav s as mulch snd discourage taking? Thank you.

Loving these videos! Would be great if you featured some Kumeyaay also 😀 Would love to know more about what the plants were used for

I love Mission Trails Regional Park and the effort they did for improving public access and education. But I'm disappointed in the careless way they selected their California Sycamores which are not Western Sycamores at al, but rather a back east hybrid or perhaps London Plane Tree. I'm not talking about the actual wild ones, but the ones they selected for the parking lots and camp ground & day use area. San Diego Safari Park did the same exact thing in the native plants exhibit. Somebody dropped the ball and relied on some commercial retail nursery and assumed they knew what they were doing. Same thing upstream in Santee where a back east hybrid of Cottonless Cottonwood was planted along the river trails and parks. Those trees when huge tend to get disease fat and whole large branches die enmass. Just wish the Botanist experts they used had a better grasp on their selection or better yet collect seed in pure wild areas and grew their own which is not hard to do. Still like the park, but wish better planning had been done. Same mistakes at the Walker River Walk Preserve up by Magnolia in Santee.

Which are the best native quick growing trees/shrubs to grow for privacy that need very little water?

My dad is planting a lot of Lemonade Berry shrubs ( @ 7:40 ) so he does not have to mow so many weeds.