Welcome to the Southern California Horticultural Society

PLANT LOVERS SHARINg KNOWLEDGE

On the second Thursday of each month, we invite speakers to present a talk or program about their area of expertise. We offer in-person meetings as well as live-streaming on Zoom (with registration).

Meetings may also include Plant Sales, a Raffle and expert discussion of plants brought in to the Plant Forum. Do you have an interesting plant to share? If you can't bring one in person, send in a photo and requested information on our Plant Forum Page.

For more information about the Society, please see our About SCHS page.

UPCOMING EVENT:

Thursday,  August 8th, 2024

Live on Zoom:

Firescaping and Habitat Gardening

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with speakers

Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger,

co-authors of the book Firescaping Your Home. 

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The Southern California Horticultural Society will host an online  program on August 8 with speakers Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger, co-authors of the book Firescaping Your Home. They will discuss defensive space landscaping techniques, common concerns for implementing defensive space, some problematic landscaping techniques (and solutions for tackling them), as well as how to create habitat gardens using native plants

Adrienne Edwards, PhD, is a botanist, plant ecologist, garden designer, and environmental consultant, who has lived and worked in northern California since 2006. She is currently a faculty lecturer at California State University, Chico.  With over 30 years of experience teaching, researching, and consulting, plants continue to inspire her passion.

Rachel Schleiger, MS, is a plant ecologist who specializes in restoration ecology. She has lived in the Sierra Nevada foothills most of her life. Her family and property survived the most deadly and destructive Western fire on record, the 2018 Camp Fire. She is currently a faculty lecturer at both California State University, Chico and at Butte College, where she developed curriculum specifically to teach about wildfire.

In 2020, U.S. wildfires burned 10.3 million acres, with roughly 60% occuring in California, Oregon and Washington. Simultaneously, more people are choosing to live adjacent to fire-prone wildlands. In California, increasing numbers of residents live in the Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI), where development meets or intermingles with undeveloped wildlands. One consequence of this is an accelerating loss of native biodiversity through habitat fragmentation. 

Edwards and Schleiger will talk about ways we can help compensate for this alarming biodiversity loss from clearing and building in the WUI by using native plants and wildlife resources in our landscaping. By including these in the “built environment”, we effectively create wildlife bridges, or oases, to support pollinators and other essential species they interact with.

This program will share lessons learned to help individuals and communities become more wildfire ready and resilient, while also supporting the native wildland habitats that we must protect.  Please register to join us for this important and timely talk at www.socalhort.org.

 MEETING: ONLINE - REGISTER HERE

DATE & TIME:    THURSDAY, AUGUST 8TH, 2024, 7:10 P.M.

Announcements: 7:10PM  /  Plant forum: 7:15pm  /  Program: 7:30PM

COST:   FREE for SCHS Members / $5. for Non-Members

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Upcoming Events:.

Thursday, August 8, 2024
Zoom Webinar with Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger on their new book, Firescaping Your Home.

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