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
Thu May 23 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM CNPS SCV Board Meeting |
Fri May 24 @ 9:00AM - 12:00PM Friday Edgewood Restoration |
Fri May 24 @ 7:00PM - 08:50PM Photography Group - Photo Sharing Meeting |
Sat May 25 @ 8:00AM - 10:00AM Lake Cunningham Native Garden |
Sat May 25 @10:00AM - 12:00PM Fountain Thistle Work Party |
Sat May 25 @10:00AM - 01:00PM “Seas of Downingias” Vernal Pool Wildflower Tour |
Tue May 28 @ 7:00PM - 09:00PM Native Plant ID |
Fri May 31 @ 9:00AM - 12:00PM Friday Edgewood Restoration |
Sat Jun 01 @ 8:00AM - 10:00AM Lake Cunningham Native Garden |
Fri Jun 07 @ 9:00AM - 12:00PM Friday Edgewood Restoration |