Spring Wildflower Show and Native Plant Sale
Hosted by California Native Plant Society, North Coast Chapter
- Friday, May 5, 1-5 p.m. Show only; no plant sale
- Saturday, May 6, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Show and sale
- Sunday, May 7, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Show and sale
Wildflower Show Features:
Hundreds of fresh wildflower specimens, both native and non-native, from the fields, dunes, forests, and prairies of Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, near and far. Where else can you see eight clover species side-by-side? three trilliums? four Ribes? eleven species in the carrot family? Let our collectors do the driving and leg work. You stroll in to see, smell, and enjoy.
Special feature: Western Azalea display. Learn about this beautiful native shrub and the two local reserves where you can see it.
Artists' session, Friday evening, 7-9 p.m. (also known as Art Night) Artist Rick Tolley provides paper and tools, if you need them, congenial atmosphere, and live music. The show provides the flowers to draw or paint, and artists, from beginners to professionals, sit down together and draw. For beginning artists Annie Reid will demonstrate some technique and coach. Please tell Rick you are coming, 707-498-5228.
Phenology Table. Learn to record observations of plant changes through the seasons. See plants in a new way, through careful observation of what they are doing. You can join the ranks of citizen scientists helping to record plant responses to climate. This is phenology, the study of periodic plant and animal life cycle events and how these are influenced by climate and habitat (alternative definition: the study of how the biological world times natural events). This table will be staffed during busiest hours.
Edible native plants. See some of Monty Caid's favorite edible, native plants, species you can grow outside your door for your consumption, while providing native habitat for native wildlife.
Invasive plants. Many people are surprised to learn that they harbor in their gardens something that may invade our wildlands. See some of the most troublesome wildland weeds of our area, gathered and presented by Laura Julian, Stephanie Klein, and the Humboldt-Del Norte Weed Management Area.
Bucket of Bugs. Local author and gardener Pete Haggard always finds some interesting, crawly creatures for us to examine up close. See this year's bugs on Saturday, 1 p.m..
Plant books, posters, postcards, and t-shirtswill be available for purchase. CNPS sells five different wildflower posters,19 different Dorothy Klein postcards, and a popular t-shirt depicting California Pitcher Plant (by local artist Gary Bloomfield). Northtown Books offers a remarkable selection of plant books--identification, edible or medicinal, exploration, botany, etc.
More! Other displays will include sand dune plants and rare plants. Photos or samples of wild flowers can be identified. Presentations might be added to this schedule.
Guided walks,11 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, May 6, Wildflowers in Sequoia Park. Meet botanist and teacher Liz McGee at T and Glatt Streets, Eureka (at the fountain) to see forest wildflowers in a remnant, second growth, redwood forest. Sunday, May7,Wildflowers on Hikshari' Trail. Join experienced interpreter and gardener Wanda Naylor at the Elk River Slough Parking area at the end of Hilfiker St., Eureka, to see wildflowers, both native and non-native, along the shore of Humboldt Bay.
Join the team! To volunteer to help contact Carol Ralph at 707-822-2015 or theralphs@humboldt1.com. We need people to collect flowers near and far, identify them, arrange them, set up tables, work shifts at tables, lead school groups, and clean up. Most tasks require no botanical knowledge.
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