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October 2018 OCTOBER 2018 MONTHLY MEETING Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 7:30 p.m. (4th Tuesday, not last!) Calendar Pinecrest Gardens, 11000 SW 57 Ave. (Red Road), Miami October 2018 Free and open to the public 13 (Sat.): Chapter workday at Everglades Nat. Park. 9 am 23 (Tue.): Chapter meeting at Pinecrest Gardens. 7:30 pm Refreshments begin at 7:15 p.m., merchandise sales before and 27 (Sat.): Field trip -Ludlam Pineland, Deering N. Add. 9 am after the program. The raffle follows the program. Contributions of raffle items (native plants, books, etc.) and refreshments are November 2018 greatly appreciated. Please label your raffle plant donations! 3 (Sat): Miami Shores Green Day - Volunteer 9-11 (Fri.-Sun.): FTBG Garden Festival/Ramble - Volunteer Get a head start on holiday shopping! Our merchandise table 15 (Thur.): Give Miami Day – plan to donate to DCFNPS! will have new books at the October and November meetings. 27 (Tue.): Chapter meeting at Pinecrest Gardens. 7:30 pm These books and other merchandise make great gifts! Other activities TBA Climate-Wise Landscaping: Other activities of interest: A native landscape helps our only planet Oct. 10: Broward Chapter FNPS meeting Oct. 10, 17, 24: FIU Biology lunchtime seminars (ongoing) - Ginny Stibolt, author Oct. 16: Dade Native Plant Workshop This presentation is based on topics from the book “Climate- Oct. 17: Every Kid in the Everglades – Next vol. training Wise Landscaping: Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future,” Oct. 18-19: Native Plant Show (Bradenton) which takes an optimistic approach, with hundreds of actions Oct. 21: Native landscaping workshop – free! (Broward) property owners or land managers (homeowners, communities Oct. 25: Simpson Park – geology lecture and municipalities) can take right now to accomplish at least one Oct. 27: Environmentally Endangered Lands workday of three objectives: 1) to help the landscape survive climate Oct. 30-Nov. 4: Pine Rockland & Tropical Botany Conference change, 2) to help wildlife survive climate change, and 3) to help Oct. (TBA): Miami Pine Rocklands coalition meeting to mitigate climate change. The book was written by Ginny Stibolt, a botanist in Florida, and Sue Reed, a landscape Architect in Massachusetts, with a foreword by Doug Tallamy. Sign up now to help DCFNPS! (see p.2) Miami Shores Green Day – Nov. 3 Ginny Stibolt is a life-long gardener with a Master of Science Fairchild’s Fall Garden Festival & Ramble – Nov. 9-11 degree in Botany from the University of Maryland. Since moving to Florida in 2004, she has written FIELD TRIP four peer-reviewed books on Florida Saturday, October 27, 2018 gardening published by Ludlam Pineland & Deering North Addition coastal wetlands University Press of We will first visit the 10-acre Ludlam Pineland, with its many Florida. She has also endangered and endemic plants. Then we will carpool to the coauthored "Climate- nearby Deering Addition, a 45-acre parcel with coastal band Wise Landscaping" mangrove, cordgrass salt marsh and a small tropical hardwood published by New hammock. The cordgrass salt marsh is one of the rarest natural Society Press in 2018. In addition, she has written hundreds of communities in Miami-Dade County. It’s a nice time to see it gardening and nature articles for various publications and speaks because a section was burned last winter. Both properties were regularly to environmental and gardening groups. See her acquired under the Environmentally Endangered Lands Program. website at www.GreenGardeningMatters.com. All of her books Time, address and directions are in the newsletter mailed to members. Please join to enjoy all the activities of the chapter! are shown on the website and will be available for purchase at the meeting. Difficulty: Easy (possible mud/wet feet in coastal area). October 21: Attend Ginny Stibolt’s free 3-hour workshop “A Bring/wear: Sun and insect protection, long pants (needed in Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard” hosted by the coastal area), water. Broward Chapter. See broward.fnpschapters.org/ to register. Lost? Call Patty 305-878-5705 VOLUNTEER FOR THE DADE CHAPTER DADE CHAPTER and FNPS NEWS ● CHAPTER WORKDAY - Everglades National Park The Dade Chapter board will meet on October 14. If you Saturday, October 13, 2018, 9 a.m.-noon have suggestions, questions or concerns, please contact the president, Kurt Birchenough ([email protected], 202-905-3921) Please help us enhance the entrance to ENP with restoration and maintenance of the native habitat at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Broward Chapter FNPS. coontie.fnpschapters.org/. Meets at Center, begun in 2001. Contact Patty Secret Woods, 2701 W. SR 84, Dania Beach. (305-878-5705, [email protected]) ● October 10, 2017, 7 p.m.: Meeting. Hole in the Donut with questions or if the weather is very restoration (Everglades Nat. Park) - Steve Woodmansee questionable. We will be pruning and weeding. Small hand tools and gloves Support the Dade Chapter FNPS by using Amazon Smile! are provided, or bring your own. Prepare for sun, long sleeves Register for Amazon Smile and then always start at and pants are best. We provide cold water; bring snacks to share smile.amazon.com. Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of if you care to. Volunteers have free ENP admission afterwards. your eligible purchases. Every little bit adds up! ● MIAMI SHORES GREEN DAY Saturday, November 3, 2018, 3:30 -7:30 p.m. Give Miami Day – November 15, 2018 This year's Green Day promises to be bigger and Mark your calendar to donate to support the activities of the better than ever, and it’s still FREE to attend. Help Dade Chapter FNPS (and countless other worthy organizations). introduce DCFNPS and the importance of native miamifoundation.org/community-investment/give-miami-day/ plants and habitats to the over 7,000 annual attendees. Contact Amy Leonard (aleonar74@yahoo. p.m.) to volunteer. Shifts will be 2:30-5:00 p.m. (includes set up with materials provided WHAT OUR FRIENDS ARE DOING: to you) and 5:00 until the event is over (includes taking down More opportunities to learn about, enjoy and help our display). www.miamishores.com/greenday/ native plants and natural areas. ● FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN Dade Native Plant Workshop: MDC Kendall Campus Fall Garden Festival, featuring the 77th Annual Ramble Landscape Technology Center, third Tuesdays, 5 Friday-Sunday, November 9-11, 2018 pm. www.nativeplantworkshop.com or contact Steve Please sign up now to volunteer at the DCFNPS table! Woodmansee at [email protected]. Bring at least three cuttings or pots, which need not pertain to the topic. All levels This is our second biggest are welcome! outreach opportunity each year Oct. 16 topic: Deadly plants! to inform the public about our Chapter and its mission to FIU Biology Department’s informal and entertaining promote and preserve native lunchtime seminars, Wednesdays, noon-1 pm, WC 130. plants. No specific Schedule: http://faculty.fiu.edu/~kopturs/planttalk18.html knowledge is necessary, but For reminders, contact Dr. Suzanne Koptur ([email protected]). we need you to volunteer at Every Kid in the Everglades Program (EKIP) – Volunteer! our display. Engage 4th grade students and play a direct role in fostering We will share part of the display with Miami Blue NABA to environmental literacy – at Royal Palm and also Shark Valley. feature butterfly plants and caterpillars. See www.volunteer.gov/results.cfm?ID=17620 To volunteer for DCFNPS: Please contact Gita by Oct. 22 Oct. 17: Training at ZooMiami. Alternate date can be arranged. (786-877-7168, [email protected]). The volunteer schedule will be finalized at our October 23 meeting. The Native Plant Show: Oct. 18-19, 2018, in Bradenton, FL Volunteers who aren’t FTBG members are admitted free if Classes for professionals and the public, exhibits, plant & they reply on time. Please let Gita know if you are a current merchandise sales. Register now, classes are filling up FTBG member. (Free entrance for is limited by FTBG.) fast! www.nativeplantshow.com/ Hosted by Florida Assoc. of Native Volunteers are needed to: Nurseries: FloridaNativeNurseries.org PlantRealFlorida.org ▪ Staff our display Fri.-Sun., 9 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. (AM/PM shifts) ▪ Set-up on Thursday afternoon, 3:30 - 5 p.m. Simpson Park program: Oct. 25, 2018, 7 p.m. ▪ Break-down on Sunday, 4:30 - 5 p.m. “Understanding the Geology Underlying Miami - What it tells us Display items needed: Contact Amy Leonard about the past and future sea level” - Dr. Sam Purkis, U. Miami. ([email protected],) if you have small plants or plant 55 SW 17th Rd. Miami, 305-859-2867. Register free -Eventbrite items for the display. Contact Patty Phares (305-255- 6404, [email protected]) for caterpillars or “butterfly Environmentally Endangered Lands Program Volunteer Workdays. Oct. 27, 9 a.m. - noon: Zoo Miami plants.” Help Miami-Dade’s natural areas. Register here for 10/27, or For more about the festival, see 305-372-6611, [email protected]. Most volunteers are youth, www.fairchildgarden.org/Events-Community-Outreach so adults like FNPS members to work alongside and talk with the young volunteers about the plants and habitat are much (pedicellate) flowers or, in the case of the Asteraceae, flower appreciated! Ask Tiffany Melvin for more information. heads. Baccharis dioica (broombush false willow) has persistant, Pine Rockland and Tropical Botany Conference entire, broad leaves October 30 - November 4, 2018, in Miami with short petioles The theme Expanding the Footprint will focus on reversing (leaf stems) and a the trend of diminishing pine rocklands by focusing on single prominent restoration of prior converted pine rocklands. mid-vein. The flower Who Should Attend? Scientists, educators, land managers, heads occur in policy makers, naturalists, students, concerned citizens, and terminal clusters in anyone else involved in planning, conservation, restoration, leafy panicles or tourism or interpretation of the pine rockland ecosystem.
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