ONLINE LOCAL NATIVE PLANT GUIDE FOR GARDENS AVAILABLE FOR ALL CALIFORNIA
January 21, 2016
NPCC News recently sent out information on SF PlantFinder – an online tool to find locally adapted plants for site specific native gardening in San Francisco.
The California Native Plant Society informs us that there is a similar tool for the whole state. It is CNPS Calscape - found at
http://www.calscape.org/.
Calscape is a project focused on supporting small scale nature restoration around the state, built in cooperation between CNPS and the Jepson Flora team at UC Berkeley.
You can search by zip code, city, GPS coordinates or even home address.
Calscape Project Summary:
Our goal at CNPS Calscape is to help Californians restore nature and save water one garden at a time. We do this by showing people which plants are really native to any location in the state, helping them figure out which ones they want, and where to buy them and how to grow them.
California is an extremely environmentally diverse state.
Different California native plants evolved to grow in areas of the state with very different temperatures, rainfall levels, summer drought periods, air moisture levels, and marine influences, among other factors. Because of this, it's always best to grow native plants in the areas in which they evolved. They are easier to grow, healthier and require little or no artificial irrigation when they are planted in an area in which they evolved and naturally belong.
