Category: Nature
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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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If Money Were No Object, How Would You Grow Your Garden?
Learn about native gardeners’ dream gardens if money were no object.
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Systems Analyst Weaves Together Nature and Friends
Brad Jenkins, board member, webmaster, and treasurer of the California Native Plant Society Orange County Chapter (OCCNPS), is featured this month, and answers the question: What draws us to our relationships with nature and native plants? “Innate influences, happenstance encounters, analytical purposefulness, and social associations.“ Brad writes: “My first wedding was in a wild field…
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April’s Plant of the Month: Saffron Buckwheat
What: Eriogonum crocatum – Saffron Buckwheat Dan Songster shares his native plant expertise with this article featuring a California Native Plant of the Month. April’s featured plant is Saffron Buckwheat (Eriogonum crocatum). Saffron buckwheat is lovely whether in flower or not. A colorful, compact mounding shrub to 1 1/2 feet tall by 2-3 feet wide…
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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,…