Tag: california native plant society
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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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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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Plant of the Month: the California Poppy
Guest author Dan Songster of the California Native Plant Society Orange County Chapter (OCCNPS), shares his horticultural expertise with a monthly article featuring an excellent native plant for your garden. This month’s featured plant is the California Poppy (Eschscholzia californica). The California Poppy is a perennial wildflower that is often treated as an annual. It…
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Dreamy Native Plants
Our rain totals in Southern California have already exceeded the average 14 inches per rainy season. As I write, two more inches of rain has fallen with more to come. It is an understatement to say that our native plants are thriving. This is great news for the wildlife, birds, and pollinators that depend on…
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Native Plant Goals for the New Year
Native Gardener’s Corner-Member’s Tips, Tricks, and Techniques This article, compiled by guest author Dan Songster, offers OCCNPS chapter members and local experts a chance to share information related to gardening with native plants. This month’s query asked: Do you have any New Year’s resolutions for your native garden or plans for changing your landscape in…
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Manzanita Favorites for the Garden
Native Gardener’s Corner-Member’s Tips, Tricks, and Techniques is a regular feature compiled by OCCNPS board member Dan Songster to share information from chapter members and experts statewide about gardening with native plants. “With winter here, manzanita blooms can’t be far away. Which is your favorite Arctostaphylos for your garden, and why?” Terry LePage-“Arctostaphylos ‘Howard McMinn’…
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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 Helps Native Plant Chapter Stay on Target
“Accounting is the most important aspect of any business.” Ray Kroc (former CEO of McDonald’s) This month, the Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (OCCNPS), is pleased to feature Lewis Marchand, board member and treasurer of OCCNPS. Lewis was introduced to our local chapter—and CNPS as a whole—by Brad Jenkins, former president…
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Native Gardener’s Corner–Weed Management
October/November 2023This column is a regular newsletter feature offering chapter members and local experts a chance to share information on many things related to gardening with native plants. The month’s request was: After the tremendous crop of weeds from last season’s rains, what tricks and techniques do you recommend for efficient weed removal in your…
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Board Spotlight: Laura Camp
This month, the Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (OCCNPS), features Laura Camp, current board member and past president of OCCNPS. Laura grew up in Pittsburgh and went to Penn State University. Shortly after graduation, she and her new husband Bob packed up their Plymouth Horizon and crossed the country to California.…
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Keep Your Eyes Open Even on the Busiest Trails
The Orange County Chapter of the California Native Plant Society (OCCNPS) presents our monthly article featuring OCCNPS Board Member Jonathan Frank, team lead of the field trip committee. Past: Can you share a formative native plant memory from your childhood? Present: What native-plant related ideas/projects are you working on right now? Future: What are your…