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Pollinators Need More Habitat: Create Some in Your Garden

The bad news: pollinators are in decline, and among the many reasons for their decreasing numbers, one of the most significant is habitat loss. The good news: as gardeners we can create habitat for pollinators in our own gardens and in our communities by planting pollinator-friendly plants and treating our gardens as ecosystems where living things are interconnected.    Photo ©Robin Mitchell 
 

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Annuals Are Now in Stock at Native Here Nursery!

It’s almost spring, and Native Here Nursery has many annuals available to grace your garden. Over the course of the blooming season, the nursery will offer 20 different species of annuals. Check the online inventory for what’s in stock or come on in!   Photo ©Janice Bray
 

 

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Join Us for Habitat Restoration Activities in March

Join volunteers with our CNPS East Bay Chapter and like-minded organizations in the parks in March to remove invasive weeds and create more habitat for native plants. It’s fun and rewarding work!    Photo by Susan McDougall (CC-BY-NC 4.0)
 
 
 

 

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Helping Preserve Jenner Headlands Preserve

On a Saturday in mid-February, an enthusiastic Greens at Work volunteer team joined Jenner Headlands Preserve staff members to remove forests of French broom from the banks of Russian Gulch Creek. In addition to feeling the satisfaction that comes with freeing natural landscapes from the clutches of invasive plants, the volunteers enjoyed the quiet beauty of this spectacular Sonoma Coast preserve and its richness of California native trees, shrubs, grasses, ferns, and wildflowers.   Photo ©Tom Kelly

 

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2022: A Great Year for Rare and Unusual Plants

Last year was another banner year for rare and unusual plants in the East Bay in spite of the shortened blooming period. Volunteers monitored many of our known statewide rare and locally rare (unusual) plant populations in our two counties. They found new populations and even new species that were not previously known to occur in the East Bay. Learn about their discoveries and how you can join the effort to monitor rare and unusual plants with our CNPS East Bay Chapter.    Photo ©Dianne Lake

 

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Online Lecture: San Bruno Mountain, a Bay Area Botanical Treasure

March 22, 7:30 pm via Zoom
San Bruno Mountain, located in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area, is a four-square-mile natural preserve touted by biologist E. O. Wilson as one of the world’s rare biodiversity hot spots. Join David L. Nelson and Doug Allshouse as they take us on a virtual tour of this botanical treasure across the Bay with beautiful photographs and engaging stories of the mountain and their adventures exploring and documenting its diversity.
 

 

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Upcoming Events:

April 10, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Marin CNPS Meeting (Zoom): Creating a Bee, Butterfly and Bird Restaurant and Building Community Along the Way (On-line Lecture)
April 13, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Redbud CNPS Meeting (Zoom): Beauty and the Beast: California Wildflowers and Climate Change – A 25-Year Journey (On-line Lecture)
April 15, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Garber Park Stewards Restoration (Oakland) (Restoration Project)
April 15, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Bringing Back the Natives Tour: Online version (Garden Tour)
April 16, 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve (Oakland) (Restoration Project)
April 22, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Garber Park Stewards Restoration – Earth Day ! (Oakland) (Restoration Project)
April 29, 9:00 am - 11:00 am
Albany Hill Restoration Project (Albany) (Restoration Project)
May 6, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Garber Park Stewards Restoration (Oakland) (Restoration Project)
Ithuriel’s spear (Triteleia laxa). Photo by Elsa de Becker.
Blue dicks (Dipterostemon capitatus). Photo by Elsa de Becker.
Big tarweed (Blepharizonia plumosa). Photo by Scott Yarger (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Hall’s bush mallow (Malacothamnus hallii), Lime Ridge Open Space, Walnut Creek. Photo by Cathy Chambers.

The mission of the East Bay chapter of the California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is to conserve California native plants and their natural habitats, and increase understanding, appreciation, and horticultural use of native plants.

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