california native plant week

Dar­ling­to­nia cal­i­for­nica grow­ing at Cal­i­for­nia Carnivores.

You may have heard already, but if not I wanted to relay some great news about the pass­ing this week of ACT 173, a bill that would declare the third week of April Cal­i­for­nia Native Plant Week. The leg­is­la­ture has been dead­locked over the state bud­get and I was wor­ry­ing this bill would get stalled along with every­thing else. But such was not the case–Yay!

Our state flower: Cal­i­for­nia poppy, Escholzia cal­i­for­nica, shown in its coastal form.

If you’re into read­ing doc­u­ments con­tain­ing lots of “whereas-es” you can view the full res­o­lu­tion [ here ].

April is high bloom sea­son for a lot of the natives, so it should be a great time of year to spread the word about Cal­i­for­nia natives.

September 03 2010 08:44 pm | Categories: gardening | Tags: •

7 Responses to “california native plant week”

  1. Town Mouse on 04 Sep 2010 at 8:12 am #

    Yeah! I had won­dered about that piece of leg­is­la­tion, though I haven’t fol­lowed closely. This is great news!

  2. Pomona Belvedere on 04 Sep 2010 at 12:17 pm #

    I’m very happy to hear this! I agree with Town Mouse: great news. Also quite nice to see the coastal form of our Cal­i­for­nia poppy, I know only inland versions.

  3. Donna on 04 Sep 2010 at 12:37 pm #

    Great recog­ni­tion, and most deserved. Like the native poppy with the highly tex­tured leaves

  4. Susan Krzywicki on 04 Sep 2010 at 1:28 pm #

    Yes — let’s cel­e­brate! Get the word out!

    Con­grats to all who worked so hard on this.

  5. colleen miko on 05 Sep 2010 at 12:27 pm #

    Great news! Time for native flora to get more pub­lic­ity. Seems most peo­ple don’t even know their state tree or flower. I think there should be a fed­eral hol­i­day for native plants–could get into that way bet­ter than say, Colom­bus Day.

  6. Arleen Webster/Camissonia's Corner on 05 Sep 2010 at 10:01 pm #

    Excel­lent! All I can say is, it’s about time!

  7. Country Mouse on 06 Sep 2010 at 6:44 am #

    Cool — I’m won­der­ing what hap­pens dur­ing Cal­i­for­nia Native Plant Week? — Answer, I sup­pose, is: what­ever we make up. I could put some dis­play on our neigh­bor­hood notice­board, I guess, and at work. Offer a few plants for shar­ing. Be inter­est­ing to see what events peo­ple are plan­ning around our locale.

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