This free event provides an opportunity to share and receive both cuttings and seeds of native plants. Browse the diverse offerings, ranging from easy-to-grow to hard-to-find, and go home with cuttings and seeds of new native plants! We will provide coin envelopes for seeds but do bring containers in which to carry cuttings home.

If you have native plant material from your own garden to share, please bring some. Label it to make it easy to browse – some gardeners attach helpful hints about growing; others display photos of plants in bloom. You may find it convenient to use www.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. You don’t have to bring anything if you don’t have any native material to share, as there is usually plenty for all.

Several popular gardening books will be available for sale during the event, including Wildflowers of California from CNPS, Seed Propagation of Native California Plants (2021 ed.), by Dara E. Emery, and California Native Plants for the Garden by Carol Bornstein, David Fross and Bart O’Brien.

Our Wildflower Ambassadors will be giving out free seed packets and information as well. 

Online Plant Sale

Our CNPS SCV nursery is having an online plant sale at california-native-plant-society-santa-clara-valley-chapter.square.site, starting Tuesday, May 27. The store will close when we reach our pickup capacity or at the end of the day on Wednesday, May 28 – whichever comes first.

In addition to plants, the nursery’s online store includes books, labels and plant signs. There is a minimum order of $40.

Pick your plants up with a scheduled pickup at the CNPS SCV Nursery on Friday, May 30 or the Exchange at the Peninsula Conservation Center on Saturday, May 31. No drop-in pickups or sales.

The Peninsula Conservation Center is located at 3921 E. Bayshore Road in Palo Alto. The meeting rooms are on the first floor.