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| MAY/JUNE 2020 CHAPTER NEWSLETTER |
Buy Your Spring Native Plants On-lineOn May 16, check the Jepson Chapter homepage or Facebook page for the link to our on-line inventory of native plants available to purchase for your spring-time gardening. Customers will be able to see photos, descriptions, container sizes and quantities of the plants available for purchase and pay on-line with a credit card. The sale ends at the close of business on May 21. Customers must agree to pick up their plants on May 23 from noon to 2:00 PM at Heritage Presbyterian Chuch, 1400 East Second Street in Benicia. Volunteers will be available to load your order into your vehicle. Nearly 600 plants will be available for sale, first-come first served. Prices are $4 for 4-inch containers and $8 for large containers. All plants are grown at the Chapter's native plant nursery in Vallejo. The COVID-19 public health emergency caused the Jepson Chapter Board to cancel the April 25 plant sale. Since that time, members of the Plant Sale Committee (Barbara Reiley, Kathleen Catton, Pam Muick and Steven Goetz) have been working on an on-line alternative that would be safe for our customers to use this Spring. The Board is particularly grateful to the Society's state office which provided critical assistance in setting up the software that will track plant orders. The Jepson Board realizes that this on-line plant sale does not work as well as a physical plant sale for many of us. We considered providing home delivery but we do not have enough volunteers to coordinate and provide that service. We considered providing a second pick-up point in Fairfield, but the software does not easily accommodate a second pick-up location. We considered continuing our past practice of including sales tax in our prices, but the software does not allow this. One feature of this web-based sale that you may like is that Chapter members will have access to the on-line sale two days before the general public. Chapter members who accept CNPS emails should look for an email from us on May 14 which will include a special link to the webpage for the plant sale. You can email any questions you have on the on-line plant sale to contact@jepson.cnps.org. Also mark you calendars for the Fall Native Plant Sale, which is scheduled for October 10, 2020, by then we hope to overcome the obstacles to a physical plant sale. Inventory at the Jepson Chapter native plant nursery in Vallejo awaits the start of the on-line Spring Native Plant Sale, which begins on May 16 and ends on May 21. |
PLANT OF THE MONTH: Mimulus 'Eleanor', Eleanor monkeyflowerThis mimulus hybrid has large buttery-yellow flowers with white fringe and orange markings in the center. It is a subshrub with dark green leaves, growing 2’-3’ tall and 2’-3’ wide. It blooms spring-fall and attracts butterflies and bees. Prefers sun or part shade in coastal sites, and part shade in inland sites. Grows best in sandy, coarse-grained or other fast draining soil. As with all monkeyflowers, consistent watering can hurt the plant; supplement its water for a month after planting time, then let it alone. A splash of water once or twice a month in the hottest parts of summer will allow Eleanor to keep its leaves all year. Cut back the whole plant to about 8" high after flowering, and give it a good deep watering. It will regrow and rebloom. Eleanor Monkeyflower is suitable for containers as well as flower borders, pathways, hummingbird and butterfly habitats. Eleanor monkeyflower is a horticultural selection by Yerba Buena Nursery. This 'Eleanor monkeyflower is one of several monkeyflower hybrids that will be offered at the Jepson Chapter's on-line Spring Plant Sale which begins for the general public on May 16 |
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