Desert StudiesAva Cheng
2016 The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies
Ava Cheng is a student at Santa Barbara City College and working with the Garden Allies Program at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. The Garden Allies Program is a research and education outreach program concerning the positive relationship between pest-eating insects in the garden and native California plants through field and literature study. As arid environments like California become drier, there is greater need to grow native plants that are adapted to less water intake. Through outreach and education with the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, she helps to educate others to recognize the “good” bugs from the “bad.” This research aims to reduce use of pesticides, lower the amount of work and maintenance required of a garden, and increase edges as well as species corridors.
The Garden Club of America Award in Desert Studies
To promote the study of horticulture, conservation, botany, environmental science, and landscape design relating to the arid landscape.
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