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Blazing Star Newsletter: May-June 2018 California Native Plant Society Santa Clara Valley Chapter THE BLAZING STAR May-June 2018 SAN JOSE BALLOT MEASURES GENERAL MEETING & PROGRAM CNPS SCV opposes the deceptive Measure B on the June Friday, May 18 at 7:30 PM 5th ballot (for the City of San Jose). We urge you to vote: Los Altos Library Program Room NO on Measure B : (Evergreen Initiative) 13 S. San Antonio Road, Los Altos • Allows development without following California environmental laws . Biogeography and Ecology • Puts Coyote Valley at risk for urban sprawl. • Will cost San Jose tax payers millions of dollars. of California Bryophytes • Fewer very low-income housing units would be built A talk by Ben Carter than required under current San Jose regulations. San Jose State Univerisity • No guarantee of preference for veterans in 367 pages of new regulations. Ben will begin with a discussion of the important • No public input in the planning process. differences among the four major groups of land plants: • See www.NoOnBsj.com for more information. mosses, liverworts, hornworts and vascular plants. He will then dive into California bryology from an ecological and YES on Measure C: biogeographical perspective. Bryophytes have a unique (San Jose’s Urban Sprawl Charter Amendment) suite of adaptations that allow them to live in many • A competing initiative. If both B and C pass, Measure environments that vascular plants cannot. Because they're C will protect San Jose and the environment from spore dispersed, they also exhibit biogeographic patterns the negative impacts of Measure B. that are quite different from those commonly seen in the seed plants. He will discuss basic principles of bryophyte • For full text of Measure C (PDF) please visit ecology and biogeography in the context of the California www.sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/75643 . flora, and also explore ongoing research into ecology and For more information please visit www.cnps-scv.org/ biogeography of California bryophytes. index.php/conservation or see the enclosed flyer. Ben Carter is Assistant Professor and director of the Sharsmith Herbarium at San Jose State University. He did his undergraduate work at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and earned a PhD from Berkeley studying bryophyte systematics. After graduating, he spent a year living on Santa Catalina Island and studying the Channel Island flora. He then spent several years on the east coast as a postdoctoral scholar at Duke University. His current interests include understanding the influence of microclimates on moss distributions and working with herbarium specimen data to understand broad biogeographic patterns across North America. Erica Fleniken Directions: From Foothill Expy., travel ½ mile on San Common buckeye on sage at Ulistac Natural Area, March 2015 Antonio Rd. towards the Bay, cross Hillview and turn right into the driveway; library is on the left. From El Camino, 2 www.cnps-scv.org (650) 260-3450 May-June 2018 travel towards the hills on San Antonio Rd., cross Edith and designers. GWN offers over 30 free talks throughout the turn left into the unmarked driveway just before Hillview. year at public libraries in San Mateo and Santa Clara The sign on San Antonio Rd. reads “Civic Center, Library counties. For more info., visit www.cnps-scv.org/gwn . and History Museum.” Enter through the lobby of the main entrance. These programs are made possible by co-sponsoring libraries and volunteers who help with program logistics. If CNPS general meetings are free and open to the public. you would like to help organize similar programs at a For more information, contact Chapter President Madeline library near you, email [email protected]. Morrow at [email protected] or the Chapter phone (650) 260-3450. Easy-To-Grow Native Plants Two Speakers, Two Locations CHAPTER ACTIVITIES Are you looking to start a native plant garden in order to CNPS SCV Nursery at Hidden Villa save water, add habitat, and create beauty? Are you new to Come help propagate plants for our plant sales by growing drought-tolerant native plants? Do you want to volunteering at one of our nursery work sessions, include them in your garden for beauty, habitat and Wednesdays from 11am to 2pm. Please check Meetup sustainability, but don’t know where to begin? (meetup.com/California-Native-Plant-Society-Santa- Clara-Valley-Chapter ) for the latest schedule. We’ll also Come to this talk and learn about the many easy-to-grow hold work sessions during Monthly Member Sales. native trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals for the home garden. Many of these plants are native to our local area Bring a sunhat, liquids and your lunch if you like. Tools and will thrive with just a little water and care. will be provided at the nursery. Knowledge of plants is not We have two locations and two speakers for this talk: necessary; your willingness to help is all that’s required. Sunday, May 6, 1-2:30 PM, San Mateo Highlands Recreation Center, 1851 Lexington Ave., San Mateo The next Monthly Member Sales will be (650) 341-4251 Note this is an afternoon talk! 11 am to 2pm on the following days: Wednesdays, May 2 and June 6 Anne Risberg is an enthusiastic native plant gardener who is especially interested in the connection between animals, A reminder, member sales are credit card only payment. birds and insects and our native California plants. She An inventory of available plants will be updated the week became hooked on native plants when she moved to the San before each sale. Visit www.cnps-scv.org and go to Mateo Highlands and the 50-year old Toyon tree in her Events, then Plant Sale . For more information, contact yard became inundated with hungry cedar waxwings who Vivian Neou at [email protected] or (650) 260-3450. came to feast on its ripe red berries. Directions: Hidden Villa is located on Moody Road west Anne is also involved with landscaping during her work of Foothill College. From Hwy. 280 in Los Altos Hills, managing commercial properties, where the focus is take the Moody Road exit and head west. Two miles west practicality and what plants make a good 20-year of Foothill College, look for the Hidden Villa sign and investment and which ones just go away after a few years. driveway on the left. Proceed over the bridge and park in the Dana Center parking lot to your right. Continue Tuesday, June 12, 6-7:30 PM, Los Gatos Library, walking a short distance on that road and you will see the 100 Villa Ave., Los Gatos (408) 354-6891 CNPS SCV Nursery ahead of you, just past the Dana Note the earlier start time! Center building. Parking is free while volunteering or Sherri Osaka is a licensed Landscape Architect and Bay- attending a member sale. Friendly Qualified Designer who started her company, Sustainable Landscape Designs, over 20 years ago. She is Gardening with Natives our Chapter’s GWN chair and received the 2018 Water Gardening with Natives (GWN), a special interest group Champion distinction from the Silicon Valley Water within the Chapter, includes beginning and seasoned native Conservation Award Coalition. plant gardeners, along with landscape architects and May-June 2018 www.cnps-scv.org (650) 260-3450 3 Native Plant Gardening in Pots Native Bees, a talk by John Kehoe a talk by Pete Veilleux Wednesday, June 6, 7-8:30 PM, Sunnyvale Library, Thursday, May 10, 7-8:30 PM, Redwood City Library, 665 W. Olive Ave, Sunnyvale (408) 730-7300 1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood City (650) 780-7018 We all know about the European honey bee, but what about Dress up the smallest of spaces using native plants in the native bees that live here in the Santa Clara Valley? containers. Containers allow you to provide exactly the These local insects help pollinate our ornamental and edible right soil, sun, and drainage conditions plants too! Once you know what to for those picky natives that you’ve look for, you’ll see over a dozen bee always wanted to grow. See how species that live in our urban setting ̶ creative you can be recycling pots and especially among locally-growing combining different textures and colors native plants. Find out how planting for an ever-changing garden display. even a few select natives can enrich your garden and attract even more Pete Veilleux is a master designer, native (and honey) bees. nurseryman and photographer. He creates gardens using native plants for John Kehoe is a longtime member of long-lasting landscapes that help CNPS as well as The Xerces Society. people get the maximum use and He is a regular volunteer at Ulistac as pleasure from their patch of earth. He well as at various CNPS functions, and is the owner and propagator of East is passionate about the natural world. Bay Wilds Native Plant Nursery His research interests include studying (www.eastbaywilds.com ) in Oakland native bees and their relationships with and a tireless advocate of native native plants. He shares these interests gardening. by way of his photography on Flickr, CalPhotos at UC Berkeley and Bumble Bee Watch. Using Graywater in your Native Garden Native Plants for Difficult Sites a talk by Justin Burks and Sherri Osaka a panel talk by Ashini Fernando, Deva Luna, Stephanie Morris, and Sherri Osaka Tuesday, May 22, 7-8:30 PM, Saratoga Library, 13650 Saratoga Ave., Saratoga (408) 867-6126 Wednesday, June 27, 7-8:30 PM, Campbell Library, 77 Harrison Ave., Campbell (408) 866-1991 California is a drought-prone state and it is imperative that we conserve every precious drop of water. Graywater is a You know those difficult gardening sites: the ones that are great way to reuse water from inside the house for dark all year until mid-summer, the ones under mature trees landscape irrigation outside of the house.
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