SIEG Promo
A SAGE IN EVERY GARDEN CAMPAIGN
We are partnering with event holders to add 2,000 native White Sage plants to Orange County Gardens. One FREE plant/household. Goals: increase nature-beneficial gardening, conserve water use in cities, and protect white sage in public wildlands. CLICK THE TITLE OR PICTURE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
* This successful campaign completed on March 4th. Click on the image below to see a Google Map of the cities (approximate locations) where nearly 2,000 of the plants went from CNPS OC (red dots) and Roger's Gardens (orange dots) events.
Connecting with California Native Plants
With Local Nature
- Dive into websites. For example Calscape, iNaturalist, and Calflora
- Help the UCI Herbarium transcribe their collections - and learn new plants
- Watch/listen to nature videos and podcasts. Start with,
- Doug Tallamy's 'Restoring the Little Things that Run the World'
- Jim Riley's 'Coastal Sage Scrub'
- Imagine your Dream Garden. Think Nature. Share it. Build it, even if just piece by piece.
- Plant native plants. Check hours at these nurseries with year-round inventories:
Tree of Life Nursery, inland from San Juan Capistrano near Caspers Wilderness Park
California Botanic Garden, Claremont
Theodore Payne Foundation, Sun Valley
Roger's Gardens, Newport Beach
Find more nurseries on Calscape
- What to plant now – Calscape
- Add pollinator and habitat plants –Calscape, Calflora
- Monthly garden chores
- Go for a walk
- Share photos of the native plants you see to iNaturalist or Calflora
- Learn to identify new native plants along a trail
- Hunt for high priority invasive plants in secluded areas and report them
- Visit our local OC Facebook page
- Visit our local OC Instagram page
- Visit our Native Gardener's Corner archives and learn
- Look at the wide range of California Native Plant Society work and activities
