Webinar: Tips for Starting Native Seeds

Favorite wildflowers:

• California poppy
• California buttercup
• Sky lupine
• Purple chinese houses
• Farewell to spring
• Red ribbons
• Red maids
• Baby blue eyes
• Cream cups
• Five spot

Favorite Shrubs/Trees:

• Ceanothus
• Manzanita
• Pacific Waxmyrtle
• Oregon Grape
• Native Salvias
• Coffee Berry
• Toyon
• Madrone
• Oaks

Why Natives?

Resources:

• Dara E. Emery, Seed Propagation of Native California Plants, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 1988 Seeds: Larner’s Seeds www.larnerseeds.com
• What native sgrow here? www.calscape.org
• App: North California Wildflowers
• App: Picture This
• App: Seek (by iNaturalist National movement: www.homegrownnationalpark.org Sloat Garden Centers: www.sloatgardens.com

Discussion

• What you’ll need to germinate seeds
• A brief botany lesson
• Technique Demonstration: bean sprouts in ziplock bag
• Sowing indoors for transplanting
• Native grasses are wildflowers too!
• Sowing directly in the soil
• Plant recognition: California poppy
• Discussion of milkweeds, native vs. tropical and others
• Cold, moist stratification
• Buckeye trees
• What did we learn?