Questions or problems? email: MarinCNPSplantsale@gmail.com Spring Planting
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Our gardens have been a welcome respite during this time of lockdown and we are very pleased to offer everyone some great new plant choices for spring planting. Locally-Sourced Native Seeds are offered in addition to live plants. Local Flowering Shrubs provide resources for pollinators, birds, and other creatures. When we think about providing for pollinators, bold and beautiful wildflowers might come to mind. Our landscaping shrubs and trees are equally essential, however, and provide critical sources of nectar and pollen, particularly for native bees. Many of these bees emerge early in the spring and depend on the early-blooming shrubs such as manzanita and ceanothus. Plant Replacement List developed by Marin Chapter developed for homeowners who have been required to remove fire-prone plants from their property. All these species offer great choices for filling the gaps left by plant removal as well as increasing the biodiversity in your yard. We will offer many of these plants in 1-gallon size; gardeners interested in larger sizes should order them through the four nurseries we list with the Plant Replacement List. Click here for further information.
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March Offerings Trees: Buckeye, desert willow, Catalina ironwood, CA sycamore Other: Hunt’s clarkia (Clarkia amoena ssp. huntiana, rare), 5 types of dudleyas, soap lilies, mountain garland (Clarkia unguiculata), arroyo lupine, sticky phacelia Shrubs: Ceanothus ‘Antonette’, ‘Concha’ and hearstiorum, Arctostaphylos ‘Dr Hurd’, Nevin’s barberry, coffeeberry, snowberry (shrub and low-form), apricot mallow, silver bush lupine, Catalina perfume, Pacific ninebark, carpenteria, flowering currant (red, white), coyote brush Perennials & Grasses: California fuchsia ‘Everett’s Choice’, Pacific aster, gumplant, seaside daisy, monkeyflower (white, red-orange, scarlet and seep), sea thrift (white), fringe cups, bee plant, coast buckwheat, St Catherine’s Lace, yarrow (pink, white), Sages: white, Pt. Sal, ‘Pozo Blue’, ‘Starlight’; deer grass, giant wild rye, soft rush, yerba buena Coming in April
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Additional plants expected for the April sale (April 14-21): Narrow-leaf and showy milkweed, California fuchsia ‘Marin Pink’, sneezeweed, pearly everlasting, pipevine, white-flowering grass, golden yarrow, buttercups, black sage, Bee’s Bliss sage, wild grape, and many of the spring wildflowers. Plant Order Pickup
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Pickup plant and seed orders on Sat. Mar. 27 between 10:30am and 1:30pm, in the parking lot of Bon Air Center, Greenbrae.
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