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Photos of the Fall Native Plant Sale

Protect Your Watershed With Conservation Gardening
February 12 (Friday), 7-9 PM, Helling Library

In this special 2-hour presentation by Wildflowers Forever you will learn about two new programs–a low cost workshop series and a free home consultation program–designed to help you make decisions about how to use California native plants to create a home landscape that is drought-tolerant, fire-safe and wildlife-friendly. This program will be presented at the Nevada County Library Community Room at Rood Center by all of the instructors of the Sierra Smart Gardening program.

Winter in Yosemite High Country
February 24 (Wednesday), 7:00 PM
Auburn Civic Center, Rose Room

In his “younger years” Roger McGehee worked as a naturalist in Yosemite National Park, spending many winters at the Yosemite Institute at Crane Flat. In addition, he took several cross-country ski trips to Tuolumne Meadows and its surrounding peaks. During those trips he faithfully carried his 35mm SLR camera and took many pictures of Yosemite in winter. This slide program will give you an understanding of what it is like for plants and animals to spend the winter in the high country.

Redbud Board Meetings

Wednesday, March 24, at 7:30 PM at the Madelyn Helling Library Community Room in Nevada City. All Redbud members are invited to attend. Be a part of the planning process!

 

Wildflower Identification Workshop
Sponsored by Redbud Chapter, CNPS.
Teachers: Linnea Hanson and Jenny Marr
Saturday, April 17, 2010– 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
 
New Location!

Twin Cities Church, community classroom.
Address: 11726 Rough & Ready Highway, Grass Valley.
Workshop Fee: $25 for members of California Native Plant Society and $35 for nonmembers. Fee includes beverages, snacks and lunch.
Pre-registration is required. Class limited to 25 people.
Contact: Karen Callahan, penstemon@nccn.net or 530-272-5532.

       Immerse yourself in wildflowers for the day.  Learn how to identify major plant families in the Sierra Nevada foothills.  Spend the morning with plant specimens observing special features--hairy nectar runs, freckles, colored anthers, banner petals or seed pods.  Become acquainted with various flower shapes: funnels, tubes, bells, bowls, stars, saucers and disks.  In the afternoon, we’ll use our newfound knowledge out in the field to identify wildflowers. We’ll explore the unusual wildflower area next to the Church facility known as Kenny Ranch or “Hells Half Acre”. We’ll identify multiple wildflowers in bloom.
       Back by popular demand, professional botanists Linnea Hanson and Jenny Marr are teaching this workshop. Linnea works for Plumas National Forest, and Jenny works for the California Department of Fish and Game. Both are long time field botanists, researchers, and leaders in the northern California botany community. They will be using the family approach to identification, believing that the easiest way to learn about flowers and to expand your “plant repertoire” is to study family characteristics, allowing you to recognize attributes of the pea family, the sunflower family, the lily family and several more.
      The main reference guide for the workshop will be our Redbud Chapter’s beautiful new book: Wildflowers of Nevada and Placer Counties, California.  The book is organized by plant families and will fit right into the workshop plan.  Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the workshop in case you don’t already have one of your own.  We’ll also use the Peterson Guide to Pacific States Wildflowers by T. Niehaus and C. Ripper. Bring your hand lens, too. We’ll have microscopes set up to give us a unique view of the plant world! 

 

Note: The Spring Plant Sale at Sierra College in Rocklin is May 1st

Details to be posted by Early April.