General Information

The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a statewide non-profit  organization of amateurs and professionals with a common interest in California's native plants. The Society, seeks to increase understanding of California's native flora and to preserve this rich resource for future generations. Membership is open to all. Our members have diverse interests including natural history, botany, ecology, conservation, photography, drawing, hiking, and gardening.

Native Garden Photo of the Month
Cobra lily (Lilium pardalinum) blooming now in native garden in Sherman Oaks next to a pond.
Submit your native garden photo to naturebase@aol.com

TOYON , our chapter's bi-monthly newsletter, features a calendar of events, news about local conservation issues, and matters of interest relating to the southern California flora. (If CNPS members from other chapters would like subscribe to the Toyon, please email David Hollombe .)

FREE LECTURE!
Sponsored by the
Southern California Horticultural Society
July 10, 7:30pm,
Friendship Auditorium, Griffith Park
CACTI, AGAVES, AND YUCCAS
OF CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA
 - a multimedia presentation by Stephen Ingram, botanist, photographer, and author of “Cacti, Agaves, and Yuccas of California and Nevada”
(Cachuma Press: 2008).
Click HERE for more info.
 

Southern California Botanists
34th Annual Symposium
Oct. 18, 2008
Problem Plant Groups:
Difficult to Understand and Identify
Cal State Fullerton

MONTHLY FIELD TRIPS

Malibu Creek State Park
Oak Savannah Restoration/
Commemorative Oaks July 5

Peter Strauss Ranch
Wetland Restoration Day July 12

Cold Creek Preserve
Weed War July 13

Check out our current newsletter for details.

Sorry about the wrong font on the July / August Toyon. Click the above newsletter link to view a pdf of the newsletter the way it was supposed to look (and with color photographs).
Sincere apologies, Steve Hartman, TOYON Editor

TUESDAY EVENING PROGRAMS



 July 8, 2008, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Title: Freezing Effects on Chaparral Shrubs

Speaker:  Stephen D. Davis,
Pepperdine University

Sepulveda Garden Center
16633 Magnolia Blvd. Encino
Click Here for Map

 NO AUGUST PROGRAM

First United Methodist Church
1008 11th Street, Santa Monica
Click Here for Map

Programs and Events are free to the public unless otherwise specified.

Click HERE to Join CNPS!

SITE UPDATED ON 6/24/08