Natural History Wanderings

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A list of fall California Native Plant Workshops and Plant Sales around the Bay this fall. Reprinted from the Regional Parks Botanic Garden Newsletter

• Bringing Back the Natives, the venerable East Bay organization that has helped popularize native plants and habitats, has a full roster of native garden workshops in September, October, and November.

• The “Native Plant Sale Extravaganza” on Sunday, October 23 is held at a number of nurseries around the East Bay (including at our neighboring U.C. Berkeley Botanical Garden). The sale is a partial fundraiser for Bringing Back the Natives.

• The CNPS Santa Clara Valley Chapter will hold their fall plant sale October 15 at Hidden Villa in Los Altos Hills.

• The CNPS Yerba Buena Chapter in San Francisco and northern San Mateo County will hold their fall plant sale October 24 in San Francisco; the chapter offers plants propogated from local stock within their chapter area.

• The CNPS Milo Baker Chapter in Sonoma County will hold their fall plant sale October 10 in Santa Rosa.

• The Native Here Nursery, a volunteer project of the CNPS East Bay Chapter, propogates natives from local stock and offers plants for sale year-round at their Tilden Park location.

• The CNPS Calscape website jumpstarts your research with an easy and fun searchable database cross-indexed by geography, plant type, and cultivation requirements. Find native plants that can thrive in your own garden’s specific climate and zoom in on precisely the plant you seek (“part-shade plants native to Modoc County” or “vines native to Tulare County”).

• Calscape is a cooperative project of several native plant organizations and herbaria, including UC Berkeley’s Jepson Herbarium. Every year, Jepson offers a rich assortment of workshops on California botany; the 2016 season is nearly over, but keep an eye out for the 2017 series which will run from winter into fall.