California Native Plant Society-- San Gabriel Mountains Chapter

Bladderpod (Peritoma arborea) Blooms most of the year. A great natural feeder for your yard!

Golden currant (Ribes aureum) Anna's Hummingbird, Santa Fe Dam

Programs/speakers Monarch butterfly Thursday, February 25, 2021, 7:30 p.m. Link for the meeting on the website https://www.cnps-sgm.org/activities.php#r294: Gardening Q & A, with Barbara Eisenstein and Orchid Black: An on-line meeting is a perfect format for a Q&A session. The theme: How to plant milkweed and other favorite wildlife plants. This is a great time to plant milkweed, which is just coming out of dormancy. Bring your questions about milkweed and other native garden... topics to this informative question and answer session. Barbara Eisenstein and Orchid Black are long time chapter members with extensive experience in native plant gardening.

Get your free native milkweed seed packet and informational brochure at the South Pasadena Farmer's Market. Starting this Thursday at 4 PM. (While supplies last.)

Two amazing people 56 years ago. What if? Here is to future convergence. Today will be history tomorrow. Thank you for this J. Drew Lanham. https://emergencemagazine.org/story/a-convergent-imagining/

The San Gabriel Mountains chapter of the California Native Plant Society has awarded two $1000 grants for 2021. Taylor Edwards, a Master’s degree candidate in the Biological Sciences Department at Cal Poly Pomona, received funding for a restoration project entitled, "Investigating the Effects of Small Generalist Consumers on Community Assembly in Degraded Coastal Sage Scrub." Martin Purdy, a Master’s degree candidate in Botany at Claremont Graduate University and California Botanic Garden received funding for compiling a "Flora of Coyote Ridge and Coyote Flat, Inyo County, California." The picture of the quail is from Taylor Edwards's project and the snow-covered ridge with lupines in the foreground is from Martin Purdy's project.

Meeting reminder tonight!

January Manzanita (Arctostaphylos Cultivar) Blooms in the garden. Loving the rain!

We interviewed botanical artist Lesley Goren about her native-plant focused artwork. Follow the link below to read the interview, or sign up for our newsletter. Lesley tells stories about California’s ecology with a vibrant, graphic style. Her work brings together elements of illustration, printmaking, pattern design, and graphic storytelling (among others) to create a style that is unmistakably her own. https://cnps-sgm.org/newsitem.php?id=10

Hummingbird Sage (Salvia spathacea)