Our most recent meeting and event / field trip notices are listed below.
An historic (1997 to 2011) list of meetings, topics, and speakers is available here.
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Even the littlest garden can support an abundance of life. Join us to hear Barbara Chung share stories about her native plant container garden, a small patio that is home to over 200 plants and a mini-nursery that yielded another 400 plants last year. Barbara will talk about how the…
January 2, 2023: Conze-Palooza!
In 2009, the South Coast Chapter of the California Native Plant Society received a bequest of about $400,000 from the Vincent Conze Living Trust. The Trust document states simply that the bequest is for “Native Plant Garden Projects”. Join us to hear from a few of the…
Join us on December 5th and share your photos / art featuring California Native Plants! This is an in-person and Zoom meeting.
In-Person Address:
Zamperini Field, Floor 1 meeting room
3301 Airport Drive
Torrance CA 90505
Take Zamperini Way from Pacific Coast Highway
Artists often perform their best when they work around constraints, so prepare your…
Join us at 7:30 on November 7th. Water runoff is the #1 source of ocean pollution in urban areas, contributing to flooding and wasting water that can irrigate landscapes and replenish groundwater. Ocean Friendly Gardens is the Surfrider Foundation’s sustainable landscaping and education program that provides beautiful, inexpensive, and natural…
Our October meeting is on the 3rd of October. The speaker is Chris Cosma, a Ph.D Candidate at the University of California, Riverside. Chris has been developing an app based on his research on Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) interactions with plants. The best way to protect Lepidoptera is to plant…
Our September meeting is on the 12th due to Labor Day holiday on the 5th. The speaker is Kevin Alison, MSc Conservation & Restoration Science, on plants of Catalina Island. Kevin has a fun presentation and will actually be on the island that day. He is in transition from his…
Thank you to the volunteers who helped at the plant sale. It wouldn’t happen without you!
The PVP Land Conservancy grew out the plants that we sold and Cris Sarabia was our main contact there. Geneva Martin got our web storefront up and operational. On Friday we had Geeta Gupta, Karen…
NATIVE PLANT SALE (2022)-A
NATIVE PLANT SALE (2022) plant list
The link to online purchases is cnps-south-coast.square.site, which does not go live until the sale starts. (You’ll get a 404 error until then.)
Notes – We all make mistkaes 🙂 :
The plant list has an error: Artemisia californica is listed as CA…
A ONE-DAY SELF-GUIDED/SELF-DRIVE TOUR OF PRIVATE WATER SAVING GARDENS,
AND WETLAND AREAS
Free cuttings and prizes
Sunday, October 09, 2022 10:00AM to 4:00 PM (Rain or Shine)
A great way to spend the day – outside
Concerned about the environment? Come see us.
See why these people love their drought tolerant landscapes. Save water. Save money**Rain…
The plant and bird walk on June 30 is a pilot run, but the plan is to host them monthly through the end of summer in Long Beach.
July 21, 2022 will be at the Dominguez Gap, then back to Deforest Park after that.
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