2024 Fall Plant Sale
October 19, 2024, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm: Pick up online purchased plants
at the Dana Center at Hidden Villa, 26870 Moody Road Los Altos Hills. You'll have an opportunity to buy a limited selection of plants from both our nursery and the Grassroots Ecology Nursery as well as participate in other fun activities.
CNPS SCV Nursery
Shop online from October 11 to 14: https://california-native-plant-society-santa-clara-valley-chapter.square.site/ and schedule a time to pick your plants up on October 19. Only select plants (manzanitas and ceanothus along with some others) will be available for purchase outside the nursery during the event. The CNPS SCV Nursery will not be open for sales during the event.
Grassroots Ecology Nursery
The Grassroots Ecology Nursery will bring plants for in-person shopping at the event (no preorders). A list of available plants will be posted on their website at https://www.grassrootsecology.org/nursery-sales a few days before October
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Seed and Cutting Exchange
We hold a Native Plant Seed and Cutting Exchange every other month at the Peninsula Conservation Center in Palo Alto. This free event provides an opportunity to share and receive both seeds and cuttings of native plants. Browse the diverse offerings, ranging from easy-to-grow to hard-to-find, and go home with seeds and cuttings of new native plants! We will provide coin envelopes for seeds but bring containers to carry cuttings home.
If you have native plant material from your own garden to share, please bring some. Label your cuttings to make them easy to browse – some gardeners attach helpful hints about growing; others display photos of plants in bloom. You may find it convenient to use calscape.org for this – there is a link on each plant’s information page to make a printable sign for most native species and cultivars.
If you bring cuttings, keep them cool and moist in a bucket of water. Don’t have native plant material to share? No problem, as there is usually enough for all.
Check our calendar for the date of the next Exchange. This event is organized by the CNPS SCV Wildflower Ambassadors, and they are always there to answer questions and distribute free packets of prepackaged wildflower seeds.
Location: Peninsula Conservation Center, 3921 East Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303
Propagation Resources
- California Native Plant Propagation, a talk by Ann Finney: Learn about easy and effective propagation best practices for California native plants, both from cuttings as well as seeds. The talk includes show-and-tell demos.
- Propagating Native Plants at Home, a talk by Stanley Gu, This talk shares a methods used to propagate plants at the Grassroots Ecology nursery for their restoration projects as well as ways to adapt these techniques for your home. Includes great examples of home propagation setups. The recording is missing some sections of the talk. Slides available here.
- California Native Plant Propagation, an informative article on collecting and propagating native plants from seeds on cnps.org
- California Native Plant Propagation Calendar for San Mateo & San Francisco Counties, from San Mateo UC Master Gardeners
- Native Plant Propagation Methods: Cuttings, article from the from San Mateo UC Master Gardeners
- Seed Propagation of Native California Plants, Dara E. Emery, 2021. The most complete resource for the propagation of California native plants by seed. Available from the CNPS SCV online store.
- Propagation Protocol Database, from the USDA Forest Service. The Native Plant Network is devoted to the sharing of information on how to propagate native plants of North America (US, Canada, Mexico and the Pacific Islands). Excellent searchable database.
- San Diego Chapter's Seed Germination tips, a collection of informative articles on germinating a variety of plants from seeds written by members of the San Diego chapter.
Native Plant Week:April 13 - 20, 2024
Did you know that California has more native plant species than any other state in the nation? To honor California’s incredible plant life, the California State Legislature designated the third week of April to be California Native Plant Week. Celebrate with our Chapter at one of the many activities we've scheduled during this special week.
April 19: Photography Group Photo Sharing Meeting
April 20: Vernal Pool Tour (CNPS Members Only), Lake Cunningham Native Garden Habitat Restoration
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Native Plant Week
Did you know that California has more native plant species than any other state in the nation? To honor California’s incredible plant life, the California State Legislature designated the third week of April to be California Native Plant Week. Save the date for next year’s celebration: April 15 – 22, 2023
October 11 to 14: Shop Online
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