Sierra Foothills
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Wildflower Sightings

The mission of CNPS is to conserve California native plants and their natural habitats, and increase understanding, appreciation, and horticultural use of native plants.

Wildflower Sightings

Check out and contribute to the new Wildflower Sightings page to help everyone locate the latest flower blooms around the Foothills.

September 10th Native Plant Seminar

“How to Transform Your Traditional Garden into a Beautiful Native Landscape”

The keynote speaker will be Bart O’Brien, Director of Special Projects at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA. Mr. O'Brien is co-author of two great books, "California Native Plants for the Garden", and the new "Reimagining the California Lawn".

The seminar is located at the Manzanita Building at the Sonora Fairgrounds in Sonora, CA.

This year the seminar will be an all day affair and lunch is included in the registration fee which is $30.00 to members and $35.00 for non-members.

For more information download the brochure (3.29 MB)

We encourage everyone to print and post the flyer for this tremedous event at your local nursury, hardware store, post office, neighbors refridgerator, etc. Help spread the word! Seminar Flyer (2 MB)

2011 October 15th, Fall Plant Sale

The Fall CNPS Native Plant Sale is Saturday, October 15th, the fall Native Plant Sale held at Rocca Park in Jamestown. As always we ask members to help with
the sale by volunteering for the various tasks which help make this a great sale. We will be asking for sign-ups at the September and October meetings.

Volunteers are needed to: unload and price plants from growers, provide trucks to transport plants to and from the sale, unload plants the morning of the sale, cashiers, tag pullers, and staffing membership and book tables.

If you are unable to attend the meetings, but would like to volunteer, please contact Carolee James at 928-4886 or cvjames@frontiernet.net, or Stephanie Garcia at sjgarcia@mlode.com

Current Newsletter - September 2011

Download the September 2011 Issue of The Shooting Star Newsletter. (851 KB)

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