Category: HOA Landscapes
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Board Member Outreach Brings Native Plants to the Urban Environment
Daphne Christle, Board Member of the OCCNPS, shares her passion for California native plants, inspired by childhood experiences and environmental activists. She emphasizes the importance of community outreach and hopes to re-wild urban environments. Her future goals include promoting biodiversity and encouraging others to appreciate and protect native plants.
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Native Plant of the Month: Bladderpod
Guest author Dan Songster submitted this article featuring an outstanding California native plant for May: This fast growing, densely-branching shrub routinely grows in a mounding habit, becoming about 3-6 feet tall and as wide. It produces abundant bright-yellow flower clusters at the ends of its stem branches. These showy flowers are about a half-inch to…
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California in My Garden Tour Coming to Orange County
The California Native Plant Society Orange County Chapter (OCCNPS) is hosting a two-day garden tour featuring 22 gardens that are at least 50 percent California native plants. This is your chance to view public and private gardens that feature California native plants in landscapes in North and South Orange County. When you take the tour,…
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Botanist Shares Wonders of the Natural World
Thea Gavin presents her monthly feature of a member of the Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (OCCNPS) Board of Directors. This article features Ron Vanderhoff, OCCNPS Plant Science Chair and current President of CalFlora. With a career in horticulture that has spanned decades, Ron is also General Manager and Vice President…
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Board Member Notates, Educates, and Eradicates Weeds in Public Lands
Board Member Lesley Bindloss is featured this month in an article compiled by Thea Gavin. Lesley Bindloss is a fairly new CNPS-OC board member with an “unsung hero” role on the board: Recording Secretary. This is the person who must take accurate notes during board meetings to make sure all discussions and decisions have proper…
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Board Member Feature: Native Plants in Every Garden
This is the second in an ongoing series of interviews with board members serving on the Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (OCCNPS). Guest feature editor Thea Gavin asked the following questions of Elizabeth Wallace, president of OCCNPS. Before her election as president, Wallace served as OCCNPS newsletter editor, recording secretary, and…
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Working with HOA’s to Install Native Plants
You can influence the installation of native plants on Homeowner Association (HOA) common area property. Homeowner Association boards are made up of neighbors who likely have little to no native gardening experience. Consequently, board members rely on their HOA landscape contractor for planting suggestions. When boards rely on HOA landscape contractors for advice, the board…