Workshop 7: Native Junipers of the Sedona Area
Learn how to identify some of our most common trees, plus many details beyond “That’s a juniper”, including galls, mistletoe, and pollination.
Jean Searle and husband Dick moved to Sedona in 1984 from Southern California. Inspired to learn more about native plants in the area, she attended a KSB native plant workshop and took a class in plant taxonomy at NAU. Shortly thereafter, she began leading monthly botany walks, then twice monthly, and eventually weekly year round.
Jean taught a course about Native Plants of the Region for four semesters at Yavapai College and worked one day a week in a local nursery for four years. For nine years she led the plant walks at Dead Horse State Park for the annual Verde Valley Bird and Nature Festival. She has given many talks to local groups on plant-related topics. She served two years as chairman of the Flagstaff Chapter of the Arizona Native Plant Society.
In 1998, she received a certificate of appreciation from the Red Rock Pathways for promoting appreciation and understanding of native plants and received the 2009 Norman B. Herkenham Award for outstanding contributions to Preserving the Wonder
through native plant landscaping.
through native plant landscaping.
Between times, she continues to tend her garden where success and failure have taught her much. She welcomes plant-related questions and continues to lead botany walks. Last year she led the plant walk at Red Rock State Park in memory of Phyllis Lindberg.