2023 June 11 Picnic

2023 Spring Wildflower

 DO YOU WANT TO VISIT THIS YEAR'S SPRING WILDFLOWERS?

Plan with these useful resources,

CNPS - Guide to spring wildflowers @ www.cnps.org/conservation/california-wildflowers

Desert USA - Regularly updated bloom reports @ www.desertusa.com/wildflo/wildupdates.html

Anza-Borrego Foundation - Weekly flower maps @ theabf.org/explore-anza-borrego/wildflower

Theodore Payne Foundation -  Wild Flower Hotline Reports @ https://theodorepayne.org/learn/wildflower-hotline

  Go with a sense of ADVENTURE (and leave no trace.)

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

• 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