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Wildflower Wonders
April 18, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
$5Spring Native Plant Sale & Celebration – Wildflower Wonders is a Native Plant Sale combined with Plant Habitat Exhibits and Family Fun!
Saturday, April 18 – 10:00-4:00
2140 Chase Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670, on the American River Parkway at Soil Born Farms
For further information, please contact: Chris Lewis, 916 812-2876, cnpschris@gmail.com
Suggested donation: $5 No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Free Plant! Join CNPS or renew your CNPS membership and choose a plant from Elderberry Farms!
Native Plant Sale Once again, CNPS Chapter Nursery Elderberry Farms will team up with wholesale nurseries Cornflower Farms and Hedgerow Farms to bring you a wide variety of native plants for your garden. “Ask a Designer” – Sign up with for a ½ hour consultation with a Landscape Designer for a nominal donation.
Native Plant Exhibit and Celebration: Several Plant Communities will be on display through hundreds of fresh-cut native wildflowers, shrubs, trees and grasses. Expert naturalists will be there all day to provide knowledgeable interpretation at each exhibit. This year Alicia Funk, author of Living Wild will have a recipe card using a plant from each Plant Community! She will also have tastings at the BOOKS table. Plus other exhibits: Monarch Butterfly Way stations, Bees are not Optional, Birds of a Feather.
Discovery Zone: Naturalists and volunteers will be there to facilitate your experience! Focus on Flowers – see plants up close using microscopes; Art table – with flowers in vases posing for the artists! Scavenger Hunt – test your plant knowledge!; Plant Pressing & Identification – bring a pressed plant home!