Education
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.
In Your Garden
- Plant native plants. Check hours at these large inventory locations: Tree of Life Nursery, California Botanic Garden
- What to plant now – Calscape
- Add pollinator and habitat plants –Calscape, Calflora
- Monthly garden chores
In Nature
- 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
With CNPS and our Orange County Chapter
- Visit our Facebook page
- Visit our Instagram page
- Visit our Native Gardener's Corner archives and learn
- Look at the wide range of California Native Plant Society work and activities