Starting your own native garden: A how-to

Starting your own native garden: A how-to

For The Union-Tribune About a year or so after Sherry Ashbaugh and her husband moved into their home on a sprawling corner lot in El Cajon, they began to focus on creating a native garden. The couple had both worked in the U.S. Navy doing environmental planning, among other things, so they already had an affinity for the outdoors. And Ashbaugh has a degree in biology and ecology. Ashbaugh was initially drawn to the idea of growing native plants …