California Native Plant Society

: Liz Henry https://www.flickr.com/photos/74453626@N00/40607640583

There was only one & I almost passed it by. California Saxifrage *Micranthes californica. Small & delicate w/ fantastic color contrast. Rockville, Northern Calif. 2-20-21

Geology is important for understanding plants. "The Shape of San Diego: How Our Landscape Formed "with Patrick L. Abbott, Professor Emeritus of Geology at SDSU 7:00 PM Friday, Mar 5, 2021 Sierra Talks Online... Streamed on the Sierra Club SD Chapter Facebook Home page https://www.facebook.com/pg/sierraclubsd/

Whether or not you are an educator or want to be educated here is a great e-book and downloadable PDF that are a comprehensive guide to the Mojave Desert.

Saturday, March 6, 9:00AM Watch online on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TreeofLifeNursery After stewing over this for around 10 years, Mike Evans will finally let off some steam and attempt to make some sense out of southern California’s Mulch Madness in his presentation The Low Down Dirt on Mulch. Watch Mike discuss what works and what doesn’t in regards to putting stuff on the surface of your soil in your native garden. I can’t stay silent on this issue any longer, said Evans. Too many gardens have died. Don’t let yours become another statistic.

: David Seibold https://www.flickr.com/photos/66855284@N03/49538653663

Found today! Cardamine californica, Milkmaids.

Great story from the California Native Plant Society-- San Gabriel Mountains Chapter newsletter.

"A Route of Evanescence With a revolving Wheel A Resonance of Emerald A Rush of Cochineal " --Emily Dickinson Anna's Hummingbird feeding on Lonicera involucrata (Twinberry), Sierran Section. Taken on 8/8/2020 by Minder Cheng.

: Beedie Savage https://www.flickr.com/photos/24737875@N06/7217087580

California Bluebell (Phacelia minor) Elsinore Peak March, 2019 : Karen Parke

My friend & a mentor, William Christian of The Nature Conservancy California has passed away. Bill was a leader in Amargosa Basin conservation for 20 years, co-...founded the Amargosa Conservancy, and gave me a shot when he didn't have to. He leaves a legacy written in acres spared the bulldozer. In acre-feet kept in the ground. In cubic feet per second continuing to flow down through the generations. But perhaps most importantly, we are all his legacy. The whole generation of conservationists who has come up over the past 20 years to find their own joy and their own passion in the Amargosa. Bill was fighting for the desert and mentoring me up until the very end. When I heard he was doing hospice, I emailed him pouring my heart out about what he meant to me. His reply? He said only "undeserved" and then said "there's a hydrologist I want you to talk to..." - his final act with me was to continue to make connections and bring people together for conservation. Rest well Bill. We will continue the work.

Photo: Diana Robinson https://www.flickr.com/photos/62501682@N00/25605873934

"They were often elusive and spectral. To see them was a blessing" Ellen Meloy A desert bighorn sheep from this morning hike in Joshua Tree National Park, Southern California. Joshua Tree or Yucca brevifolia, Jumping Cholla or Cylindropuntia fulgida and Mojave Yucca or Yucca schidegera.

Photos from Culp Valley, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park by Samantha Menckes

Read how the Redbud Chapter - California Native Plant Society ran a survey and expanded the Calflora database from 19 to 92 plants in a single area. Explained here: https://conta.cc/2I9gHsr

Photo: Channone Arif https://www.flickr.com/photos/14376841@N06/16758690981

Photo: Person-with-No Name https://www.flickr.com/photos/96214671@N08/46745751294

Diplacus bigelovii : Tom Oberbauer, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, 2017

Two native mallows in bloom in my Sonoma County garden. Left: Malacothamnus fasciculatus 'Casitas', Chaparral bush mallow Right: Spheralcea ambigua, Apricot mallow

Plants are now on sale at the California Botanic Garden. Order online for pickup.

Here are a few shots of the front yard from early October. Our garden's in Altadena and is a bit over three years old. These are the late-bloomers....Menzie's... Goldenbush, Giant Buckwheat (flower's have turned their characteristic rust color, Baja Fairyduster, Santa Cruz Island Buckwheat, and Pigeon Point Coyote Brush. Also, a couple of shots from earlier in the summer. See more

Photo: Bennilover https://www.flickr.com/photos/75885098@N05/32440176737

Grassland Research Awards for Student Scholarship (G.R.A.S.S.) Apply - Application period is November 1 to January 31 CNGA's newest program, GRASS, began in January 2019. We award competitive research funds to promote undergraduate and graduate student research focused on understanding, preserving, and restoring California’s native grassland ecosystems in accordance with the CNGA Mission and Goals.

The Franciscan Manzanita (Arctostaphylos franciscana) is one of these stories.

Photo: Josh Mazgelis https://www.flickr.com/photos/13151086@N00/1471013672

Our shelter in place project this spring. Transformation of a mostly bermuda grass front lawn to a berm of water wise native plants. We had to drastically pru...ne trees, kill a lawn, move a lot of rock, pour concrete. It almost killed us, we did it ourselves, but it turned out nice. Rock streams and decomposed granite borders covered with weed cloth. Plant mounds mulched with shredded bark only. Plants sourced from UCDavis Arboretum sale, just before the quarantine shut it down. About 60 plants. Zone 8b. See more

Three upcoming online presentations from chapter of the California Native Plant Society. Two of them are this evening, Thursday, November 5. Sign up and check them out.