Pollinator Gardening and Dahlia Hybridizing at Sisterhood (Community) Gardens
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 7:30pm, 400 University Ave, Shoup Park Garden House, Los Altos
Pollinator Gardening and Dahlia Hybridizing at Sisterhood Gardens – A Community Garden Project
by Tim Wong, garden manager at Sisterhood Gardens
Tim will speak about how the mixed use spaces at this San Francisco community garden have been successful in attracting native pollinators and have also supported the creation of new dahlias. Tim will share his experience in attracting California Pipevine swallowtail butterflies, and his initial findings in hybridizing dahlias, the flower of San Francisco.
Tim’s love for butterflies started in his youth, raising butterflies from caterpillars in his backyard in San Mateo County. Today, Tim is a Senior Biologist at the California Academy of Sciences, where he has worked with the museum’s living collection for the past 15 years. Tim works on horticulture in the Osher rainforest exhibit and coordinates the living butterfly display. When not in the rainforest, Tim may be diving in the Philippine coral reef aquarium or feeding the museum’s colony of African Penguins. Outside of the museum, Tim can be found tending a growing collection of Dahlias, many of his own hybrids, and tending the butterfly resource plants of Sisterhood Gardens.
More info: westernhort.org
Free for members and first-time attendees. Zoom link available for members.
Doors open 7pm with plant sale plus tea and snacks.