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Conze success stories- Jan 2nd, 2023
January 2, 2023: Conze success stories
In 2009, the South Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society received a bequest of about $400,000…
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Newton (Begonia) Triangle – “a pocket park with California native plants, that would be waterwise & easy to maintain”
If you’ve ever wondered what that native garden is at Newton and 242nd streets in Walteria/Torrance here’s the creation story. Two local articles fro…
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Hermosa Valley School Conze Grant
Hermosa Valley School is the site of two Conze grants. Suzanne Evans (through Friends of the Park) applied for the first Conze Grant which was presented May 7, 2015 for $1,500.00. A second Conze Grant was presented May 16, 2018 for $1,000.00. Suzanne notes that additional financial help was received from the Hermosa Beach Garden… -
Willow Springs Mural – Conze Grant
Conze grants typically fund public-facing native plant garden installations but Saturday, July 16th, 2022, kicked off a Conze Grant project that was a…
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Ideas for charitable giving
As I write this, (April 2, 2020) we are in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, which seems like it will disrupt the normal course of our lives …
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Apprentice Program at White Point Demonstration Garden
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy (PVPLC or Conservancy hereafter) has used support from a Conze Grant from the California Native Plant Soci…
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Theodore Payne Garden in Hermosa Beach – Conze Grant
The Theodore Payne Native Flora area at Valley Park was installed by the Hermosa Beach Garden Club in 1966. In the intervening years it had fallen int…
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CREEK PROJECT AT WILLIAM F. PRISK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Find the Prisk garden online on Facebook and through the William F. Prisk web site.
The following is a brief history written by Mike Lettereillo, f…
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Seed LA – Conze Grant
Seed LA is a Conze Grant recipient. Naomi Fraga writes us on December 4, 2019, about the exciting progress that Seed LA has been making. Naomi is the…
