If you missed Susan's talk at our Wildflower Show earlier this year, this is your chance to catch it! Professor Doug Tallamy and his students demonstrated that caterpillars and the native plants with which the caterpillars co-evolved are the base of our food web. Our local butterflies are charismatic examples of insects with a caterpillar phase. We’ll discuss who our local butterflies are and how we can support them as well as our bees and moths by adding local native plants to our gardens.
Susan Karasoff gardens in San Francisco’s clay soil. Susan is a member of the California Native Plant Society - Yerba Buena (San Francisco) chapter. She brings an an “only the easiest plants survive” approach to gardening. Susan grows a buffet of colorful native edible and pollinator plants, specifically gardening to feed caterpillars, bees, hummingbirds and people.
YouTube (no registration required): https://www.youtube.com/c/CNPSSantaClaraValley
Zoom registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArd-2oqDwqHtIbjAQ8b4RJRJWw76HRphk6
Fri Sep 27 @ 7:00PM - 08:50PM Photography Group - Photo Sharing Meeting |
Sat Sep 28 @ 8:00AM - 10:00AM Lake Cunningham Native Garden |
Sat Sep 28 @ 9:00AM - 11:00AM Community Work Day at the Native Plant Garden in Kirk Park |
Sat Oct 05 @ 8:00AM - 10:00AM Lake Cunningham Native Garden |
Sat Oct 05 @ 9:00AM - 11:00AM Community Work Day at the Native Plant Garden in Kirk Park |
Tue Oct 08 @ 7:00PM - 08:30PM Conservation Committee |
Thu Oct 10 @ 7:00PM - 08:30PM The Diversity of Mariposa Lilies Explained Through a Genetics Lens a talk by Dr. Adriana Hernandez |
Sat Oct 12 @ 8:00AM - 10:00AM Lake Cunningham Native Garden |
Sat Oct 12 @ 9:00AM - 11:00AM Community Work Day at the Native Plant Garden in Kirk Park |
Thu Oct 17 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM CNPS SCV Board Meeting |