NNPS members and Master Gardeners will be acting as hosts at the UNR Pollinator Garden. A dedicated group of Mater Gardeners aided by a couple of NNPS members work hard to weed and maintain the pollinator gardens around the campus. (fb)

We had a wonderful field trip to the Sierra Valley Preserve yesterday. Thank you to Preserve volunteers, Katie, Kendyl and Elizabeth, for showing us around this fabulous site, plants and birds abounded in the different areas. We started at the East Side with its wetlands and moved to the East Side with its more formal trails and drier habitat interspersed with some wet areas and vernal pools. Many of the plants have been labelled by the volunteers which is super helpful. We had some great discussions as we tried to sort out the differences between different species and genera, Downingia and Porterella were particularly hard to seperate! Intstagram posts are limited to 10 photos so we cannot begin to show what we saw in one post but you can go to Calflora’s ‘What Grows Here’ for a plant list https://www.calflora.org/entry/wgh.html#srch=t&nplace=Sierra+Valley+Preserve&fmt=photo&inma=t&y=39.7971&x=-120.3549&z=13 #sierravalleypreserve, #nativeplants (fb)