The California Native Plant Society is a statewide nonprofit organization seeking to increase understanding and appreciation of California's native plants and to preserve them in their natural habitat through scientific activities, education, conservation, and restoration.
The San Diego Chapter (CNPSSD) serves San Diego and Imperial counties. We invite you to come to our meetings and field trips, learn more about the flora of our state, and meet people who share your interest in native plants.
I would also like to see what the plant looks like all through the year. Some look pretty raggedy and need to be put in the background. It's best not to be surprised!
i have a question i'd love an answer to. i understand the evolutionary advantage of stony endocarps, but what is the advantage of seeds which fuse? don't you just end up with a lot less seed overall?
Well, in Riverside County the Engelmannii thrive on the Santa Rosa Plateau above Temecula and Murietta. Also a bog population on Cahuilla Mountain. Not sure about Redlands since it is so built up with human infrastructure. Perhaps in urban landscapes. They most likely are also throughout the Santa Ana Mountains.
Wow, publish Agust 2021 and this is all the interest this subject has generated ??? I always have a tough time with the dating promoted in these docs. Frankly I can take it or leave it and always have to take things with a grain of salt to make them more paletable and maybe even believable. I don't doubt the materials which make up our Universe have been around for milions or even billions of years. But to say that some creatures or artifacts are assumed to be millions of years old because of the materials they are discovered in to me is a stretch. Can some geological materials be millios of years old ??? Sure, but that doesn't tell e when the creature or footprint made in the mud material was millions or 100 years old. Much of science now is about spinning narratives to fit a worldview. The days of discovery and wonder have been long gone. for more than a century. People forget that most of these modern day crisis have been brought to us by Science and Scientists. Industrial Revolution, Various wars, climate change, Covid, the pseudo-scientific Green Revolution, etc. I guess i just have to get through the fluff and wade thru mysticism and be pateint until the modern factsarrive to reveal the real story of what life and how it survives comes to light in the video. I wish more truth about the native Americans and their role in the decline of the MegaFauna would be told. I watched a video put out by Sycuan Tribe about their Kumeyaay ancestors hunting prowess and how after they hunted in the beginning Mastodons and Gant Ground Sloths, these went extinct and their weapon of choice became the bow and arrow. What a thing to brag about. Does anyone realize that behaviour is generaly more associated with arrival of Europeans than with the indigenous ??? Why ???? Because Native are simply human beings equal to everyone else. And mankind as a whole are responsible for decline. Science has only helped humans to accelerated this process. Maybe I'll watch it later, but for now I have to stop at point 18:44. Sorry
Wow. Went to Mt. Tam yesterday and noted two different colors of manzanita seemingly alternating with each other, which is what led me to your video. Thank you for outright answering my question!!!
Rescued bees from leaves and rotten wood building first bee friendly ground level mulched courses across barren duff. These included flattened formations over former meadow with elevated fungal innoculated mounds. Am pleased with the results. The bees have thrived. They are diverse, docile and almost affectionate. They have no fear of my feet or shovel. With further mounds the wild bees seeded and propagated species all the way along. There are solitary pits dug in shared depressions, and increasing wood scrap offers other habitats.
Very good presentation - thank you! It was nice to be reminded of my friend the late Jeanine DeHart. I'm just getting started with planning a labyrinth using plants from Baja California and coastal California up to the Bay area - basically, all plants from the Pacific Tectonic Plate.
i just planted some asclepias fascicularis, abutilon palmeri, asclepias speciosa, and epilobium canum. i'm watering them every day till the end of the week, then, i'll let them be, no?
I have had success with CA maiden hair ferns in bright indirect light in the bathroom. I had some luck with South facing windows for small native cactus as long as you give them a good sized pot with well drained cactus soil.
If local peoples can find where a "development" will (make required by city/county) and go in and transplant the natives to have available to homeowners. Also to have the "developer" show what was there before, pollinators, creatures, plants.
When planting consider soil type (if clay or sandy or loam, how much water need), size plant to grow to, how much sun in the spaces, if irrigation . After water soil, dig to see how far down the water soaked in.
Just got back from a trip to Todos Santos (vacation) and immediately came home to do some research on native plants in Baja bc I was fascinated, and curious as to what's been documented...feels like I hit the jackpot with this great lecture :)
Fine presentation fellow Leucadian!! Wonderful pics… From Janine at Weber nursery to now Torrey at Neel’s nursery, I’ll always try to get to that special species FIRST!!👨🏻🌾🌵
Hi Jacob just happened to come across your comment today - here's a link to a write-up I did on Argentine ant behavior and treatment: www.cnpssd.org/s/General-statement-on-Ants-Rev-3-4-22.pdf
Ants don't ruin landscapes. Improper landscape practices cause sorts imbalances which prompt sucking insects to get out of balance (and some plant types are more prone to being attractive to / infested with sucking insects/),…. which cause 'the ants' to infest and mess up the situation more. It's the basic fundamentals of disease. Practices / materials used, cause the problem to arise, biologically.
@@bonsummers2657 so I'm late to the comments, but I can tell you that Linepithema humile (Argentine ants) nest in the ROOT balls of the plants, excavates soil, and plasters the upper root system with scale and root aphids. In that process they also directly inoculate pathogens into the root cambium. People often assume I must be overwatering landscapes, but I'm not. The truth is they can radiate out 200-300 meters from a moisture source, so if you have neighbors and/or moisture sources within that radius, then you will get ants. They are the main cause of mortality in Ceanothus, and native landscapes in general. I have developed a treatment and control program that has been extremely and repeatedly successful.
Here is a link to my paper on Argentine ants: chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/static1.squarespace.com/static/585dc42c725e25ca57806ffc/t/6223c4444999755208684002/1646511175393/General+statement+on+Ants+Rev.+3-4-22.pdf
Great video and great yard! An inspiration for me (I’m just a few miles away in San Carlos). FYI - that Raptor calling at the end of the video was a Red-shouldered Hawk not a Coop :)
The main species in San Diego County is Narrow-leaf Milkweed (Asclepias fascicularis). There are several other species of milkweed in the county with much more limited distribution. Of those inland and desert species, Kotolo Milkweed (Asclepias eriocarpa) would be the most commonly found.
Hi, Mary Duffy said that for the seed stratification process, they stuck the seeds in the refrigerator from anywhere to two to four months. But I have a question: So isn't that too much time for cold stratification? I am saying this because other people say that if the seeds stay in the refrigerator more than 6 weeks, the seeds will root or get harmed.
I meant to leave my milkweed CMS for two weeks. I accidentally went over and it has been 25. i just transfered to soil. I noticed there were maybe 3-4 out of 50 that were begnning to sprout.
