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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
Desert willow (Chilopsis linearis) blooms in August
in native garden in Sherman Oaks.
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 .)

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

NEW WEB SITE!

www.sepulvedabasinwildlife.org

Learn about the incredible biological diversity of the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve
that is located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley
at the junction of the 101 and 405 freeways.

Click HERE to Join CNPS!

SITE UPDATED ON 8/7/08

MONTHLY FIELD TRIPS

SUN 8/24 10am
Malibu Bluffs Park
Bluffs Ramble to the Sea

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

September 9, 2008, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Title: New Plant Invaders and Recent Successes

Speaker: Christy Brigham,
National Park Service

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

October 14, 2008, 7:30 - 9:30pm

Title: Beautiful Flowers Growing
In Our Own Backyard

Speaker: Tony Valois, Ph.D.,
Santa Monica Mountains
National Recreation Area

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

Annual Fall Native Plant Sale
Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 11 & 12, 2008
10am-4pm daily, Sepulveda Garden Center, Encino

Our Chapter will have thousands of locally appropriate native California plants and seeds for sale along with books, posters, and gift items. Free teacher information. State and National Parks and local docent groups participation. Gardening lectures both days: Sat. 11:30 and 2:00, Sun. 11:00 and 1:00. Speakers t.b.a. Experienced advisers on hand to answer questions throughout each day. SEPULVEDA GARDEN CENTER IN ENCINO, 16633 Magnolia Blvd. (south and parallel to 101 Fwy.) Ample parking, free entry.
Contact: 818-881-3706 to volunteer or for more info.
Contact on day of sale (only!) 818-448-4049

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