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  • Native Gardener’s Corner

    Native Gardener’s Corner

    Member’s Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Guest Author Dan Songster offers chapter members and local experts a chance to share information related to gardening with natives. The question for the June/July 2023 edition of the OCCNPS Newsletter was: Our native gardens are often inspired by nature. What is your favorite place/destination to experience and be inspired…

    E. Wallace

    May 31, 2023
    Buckwheat, California Bumblebees, Gardening with Native Plants
    california native plant society, California wild, Inspiration, Nature
  • OCCNPS Past, Present & Future: Insights from Board Members

    OCCNPS Past, Present & Future: Insights from Board Members

    Guest Article by Thea Gavin The Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (OCCNPS) presents a Q and A that will highlight our Board Members’ experiences and knowledge. We begin this monthly series with an interview arranged by Thea Gavin that features Dan Songster, member-at-large and past president of OCCNPS. Dan Songster has…

    E. Wallace

    May 25, 2023
    Buckwheat, Gardening with Native Plants, White Sage
    birds, butterflies, california native plants, Dan Songster, gardening, Golden West College Native Garden, Nature, southern california
  • Botany Blitz Finds Uncommon Plants in Whiting Ranch

    Botany Blitz Finds Uncommon Plants in Whiting Ranch

    Written by Guest Author Ron Vanderhoff On Sunday morning, April 16, a large group of one-hundred enthusiastic OC CNPS [Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society] members and friends joined our second Botany Blitz, this year at Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park. We were nearly overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and number of participants, which…

    E. Wallace

    May 22, 2023
    Botany
    botanists, botany blitz, california native plant society, california native plants, herbaium, iNaturalist, Nature, Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park
  • Bumping into Bumblebees

    Bumping into Bumblebees

    This year’s So Cal rainy season has been tremendous for plants and wildlife. The oak trees are covered with flowers and the hillsides are experiencing a super bloom. Before the rains, the Carrizo Plain looked like this: One year later, the Carrizo Plain looks like this: Even my little front garden is filled with flowers…

    E. Wallace

    April 25, 2023
    Gardening with Native Plants
  • 2,000 New Sages in SoCal

    2,000 New Sages in SoCal

    We did it! The Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society distributed 2,000 four-inch white sage (Salvia apiana) plants free to Southern California residents during our A Sage in Every Garden (SIEG) campaign. Our SIEG team began planning for the giveaway campaign last July. We decided to focus entirely on white sage. We…

    E. Wallace

    March 9, 2023
    Gardening with Native Plants, White Sage
    A Sage in Every Garden, california native plant society, california native plants, nature gardening, orange county, pollinators, White Sage
  • 1,904 Sages and Counting

    1,904 Sages and Counting

    Your last chance to get a free four-inch White Sage (Salvia apiana) happens tomorrow morning (Saturday), at Shipley Nature Center in Huntington Beach. OCCNPS will give away the final group of 96 sages to Orange County residents starting at 10 a.m. After the last 96 sages are gone, the A Sage in Every Garden (SIEG)…

    E. Wallace

    March 3, 2023
    Gardening with Native Plants, White Sage
    butterflies, california native plant society, gardening, native plants, White Sage
  • Final Sage Giveaway Re-Scheduled

    Final Sage Giveaway Re-Scheduled

    With rain forecast this weekend, OCCNPS has re-scheduled the final February 25th white sage giveaway at Shipley Nature Center to Saturday, March 4 at 10 a.m. The March 4th A Sage in Every Garden event is your last chance to get a free, four-inch white sage. If you live near Huntington Beach, stop by Shipley…

    E. Wallace

    February 22, 2023
    Gardening with Native Plants, White Sage
    A Sage in Every Garden, california native plant society, Nature, Shipley Nature Center, White Sage
  • Free Sage February

    Free Sage February

    February is the final month to get a free four-inch White Sage plant from The California Native Plant Society Orange County Chapter’s (OCCNPS) A Sage in Every Garden (SIEG) giveaway. Volunteers from OCCNPS have been bringing White Sage (Salvia apiana) to events across Orange County since last November and have almost completed their goal of…

    E. Wallace

    February 3, 2023
    Gardening with Native Plants, White Sage
    california native plants, gardening, pollinators, White Sage
  • White Sage in the Sunshine

    White Sage in the Sunshine

    The rain has stopped and the sun is shining in Southern California once again. A Sage in Every Garden (SIEG) volunteers are ready to give away 200 four-inch White Sage (Salvia apiana) plants at two events in Orange County this weekend. A month of rainy weather caused some SIEG dates and venues to change. We…

    E. Wallace

    January 19, 2023
    Gardening with Native Plants, White Sage
    A Sage in Every Garden, bumblebees, Free sage, Nature, pollinators, White Sage
  • Rainfall and Fallen Leaves

    Rainfall and Fallen Leaves

    Here in California, we have been experiencing rain so abundant that the ground is saturated, causing flooding. In the image below, rain is shunted off of homes and hardscape toward the street, which then channels the rainwater into a storm drain that sends it to the ocean. Thankfully, some of the rain falls on natural…

    E. Wallace

    January 5, 2023
    Buckwheat
  • Climate Change & Habitat Disruptions: Connected by Carbon Dioxide

    A guest blog by Michael Aucott. Mike is a retired research scientist of the NJ Department of Environmental Protection. He has also taught chemistry at the College of New Jersey.  He is currently a member of the NJDEP Science Advisory Board Standing Committee on Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, and on the board of directors of…

    E. Wallace

    December 28, 2022
    California Bumblebees, Gardening with Native Plants, Monarchs and Milkweed
    climate change, native plants, pollinators
  • Winsome White Sage

    Winsome White Sage

    White Sage (Salvia apiana) blooms in the spring with showy flower stalks that are covered with lavender/white flowers. This gorgeous accent plant can grow four-feet wide with six-foot tall flower stalks. White sage has an aromatic fragrance that clings to your clothing when you lightly brush past the plant. If you live in Southern California,…

    E. Wallace

    November 29, 2022
    Gardening with Native Plants, White Sage
    butterflies, california native plant society, flower, Fullerton arboretum, gardening, White Sage
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