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A curated set of environmental news stories brought to you by the Gottlieb Native Garden team.

Sherrill Leads Bipartisan, Bicameral Efforts to Prevent Flooding and Protect Pollinators Through the Use of Native Plants

Sherrill Leads Bipartisan, Bicameral Efforts to Prevent Flooding and Protect Pollinators Through the Use of Native Plants · December 15, 2023

This legislation encourages federal agencies to incorporate native plants in local landscaping projects.

‘Plant Magic’ uses native plants to draw out natural beauty

‘Plant Magic’ uses native plants to draw out natural beauty · December 9, 2023

Rafuse started Plant Magic in late 2018, originally focused on indoor houseplants. However, once the pandemic hit, Rafuse quickly realized that few people would want another person in their home for consultations.

It’s Complicated: Producing Native Plants For Market

It’s Complicated: Producing Native Plants For Market · December 8, 2023

Growing from seed (37 percent of production) is vital, but many of the plants they produce simply don’t create enough seed, or germinate reliably, to make wholesale production viable.

Pollination From Honeybees Could Make Plants Less Fit to Survive and Reproduce

Pollination From Honeybees Could Make Plants Less Fit to Survive and Reproduce · December 6, 2023

Plants visited by honeybees rather than native bees may become more inbred, a new study suggests

Dunes and native plants to sprout next year on a California’s harbor beach

Dunes and native plants to sprout next year on a California’s harbor beach · December 5, 2023

A relatively low-budget project has received a $57,000 state grant to restore sand dunes and native plants next year to spots along Oceanside’s North Strand and Harbor Beach.

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden offers new course on landscaping for California native plants

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden offers new course on landscaping for California native plants · December 4, 2023

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is the first to focus exclusively on California native plants, and now they’re inspiring landscapers to do the same.

California native plants are not our only choice for drought-tolerant landscapes

California native plants are not our only choice for drought-tolerant landscapes · December 1, 2023

APLD’s Plant Fair is a chance for wholesale nurseries to show off their new, improved plant varieties to landscape designers in the hopes they’ll include them in future designs.

ACT LOCALLY: HOW NATIVE PLANTS CAN HELP YOU TAKE ON INVASIVE SPECIES

ACT LOCALLY: HOW NATIVE PLANTS CAN HELP YOU TAKE ON INVASIVE SPECIES · November 21, 2023

Invasive plants can look harmless. Heck, they can even look pretty! But left unmanaged, invasive trees, vines and reeds can wreak havoc on the local ecosystems they invade.

Plant for pollinators: Grants available for native plants

Plant for pollinators: Grants available for native plants · November 18, 2023

With the snow yet to settle on the grass for the winter, it is hard to think about spring. But if planting native plants to make your own pollinator garden sounds like something you would like to do, the State of Minnesota has a program that could help you get a jump on it.

Volunteers helping sagebrush, wildflowers grow where fires burned

Volunteers helping sagebrush, wildflowers grow where fires burned · November 17, 2023

Volunteers with the Columbia Basin chapter of Washington’s Native Plant Society met up at a local hiking hotspot in southeastern Washington on a cold November afternoon to replant sagebrush tubelings and scatter seeds on a small section of the burn scar.

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