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Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 7:00 PM
"Native Plants for the Small Yard"
Kate Brandes
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Native plants are most often viewed by the public in ‘wild’ spaces such as meadows or as highly managed landscapes in large botanical gardens. There are few examples or resources on how to incorporate native plants into the landscape for residents with small yards in a way that fits the tidy yard look that many people are comfortable with and can afford. This presentation includes resources for residents developed over a five-year program that make it easier for residents to include natives in their home landscapes. Kate will present an array of simple landscape design templates as well as resources on common weeds and invasive plants that residents may encounter in the home garden.
Kate Brandes lives in the small river town of Riegelsville, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two sons. She’s a creative writer and artist interested in sense of place. Kate has also worked as a geologist and environmental scientist for more than twenty years. She currently teaches geology and a course on Landscape, Culture and Story of Place at Moravian University. She also co-directs the Moravian Writers’ Conference.
Bergen Passaic Chapter
Meet our chapter- Bergen-Passaic chapter
Bergen Passaic Chapter ---- Meeting:
Wednesday, April 13, 2022 at 7:30pm
Bergen/Passaic Chapter presents:
"Native Groundcovers: Sustainable, Living Mulch"
Randi Eckel
Click here to REGISTER
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Don't neglect the ground level of your garden! As a beautiful, sustainable, and ecologically important alternative to traditional mulch, native groundcover plants can be used to crowd out weeds, provide year-round soil protection, and offer a habitat for beneficial insects. In this presentation, Randi will discuss the benefits of native groundcovers, and introduce some of her favorite native groundcovers for different garden conditions.
NJ Do not plant list:https://www.fohvos.info/invasive-species-strike-team/info-center/
After the COVID 19 pandemic, all chapter meetings will take place on the second Wednesday of the month from September to June, at the Headquarters of the NY-NJ Trail Conference. All meetings start at 7:30 PM
Co-leaders are Tom Bender, Elaine Silverstein and Vicky Katzman.
They can be reached at:bergenpassaic@npsnj.org
Delaware Bayshores Chapter
Delaware Bayshore Chapter Meeting
Monday Night---- 2022
from 7 PM-8:30 PM
Next on the Guest Speaker Series
TBD
"TBD"
Don't Forget!
Our yearly meetings are held on the first Monday of the month from September 2020 thru June 2021 except for holidays (they will be the following Monday).
Hope to see you soon,
Cheers,
Karla, Julie, and Joe
delbaynps5@gmail.com
For more information:email:debayshores@npsnj.org
Essex Chapter
Native Plant Society of NJ - Essex Chapter
Upcoming Events
MEMBERS OUTDOOR GATHERING
Sunday, April 24, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. (Heavy rain cancels)
EARLY SPRING GARDEN TOUR
12 Godfrey Road, Montclair
Home of Deb Ellis
See early spring natives blooming; Celebrate Earth Day 2022 with other native plant enthusiasts!
For questions, email Deb Ellis at essex@npsnj.org.
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The Essex County Chapter began in January 2019 and is sponsoring tables at plant sales, open garden tours, gardening workshops, and native plant/seed exchanges.
The co-leaders are Deb Ellis and Alice van Straalen. If you have questions or would like to be involved, please email the chapter at essex@npsnj.org.
Meet our chapter- Essex chapter
Highland Park Chapter
To be announced
Our meetings are held at the Eugene Young Environmental Education Center, 20 River Road at 7:30pm. click here for a map
For more information contact Mary and Belinda at highlandpark@npsnj.org.
Meet our chapter- Highland Park chapter
Hudson Chapter
Hudson Chapter:
Monday, April 11th | 7:00pm-8:00pm ET
Designing and Planting with Native Plants Creating a Native Habitat
With Elaine Silverstein
Zoom registration Click here to register
What is a habitat? How can homeowners mimic nature by creating a native habitat on their properties? This practical workshop takes viewers step-by-step through planning, designing, installing, and maintaining a beautiful, wildlife friendly habitat garden.
Elaine Silverstein, is certified in Sustainable Landscape Management by the New York Botanical Garden, where she has also earned the Urban Naturalist certificate and continues to study botany, ecology, and landscape design. She is co-leader of the Bergen-Passaic chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Jersey and co-chair of the Glen Rock Shade Tree Advisory Committee.
This event is open to all.
Co-leaders: Kim Correro, Lorraine Freeney and Dawn Giambalvo. Contact: hudson@npsnj.org
Hunterdon Chapter
April Meeting:
We are happy to announce our first in-person monthly Meeting and Lecture in over two years!
We have found a new venue located in Glen Gardner and we are kicking off the year with a lecture by our new President, Randi Eckel. Free monarda didyma plug to everyone that comes! No food or drink will be provided, but you can bring your own. We are planning other get-togethers like a couple of self drive adventures and a butterfly walk with NABA in July so stay tuned.
Tuesday, Tuesday April 26, 2022 at 7:00 PM
NEW LOCATION:
Lebanon Township Fire Department
528 West Hill Road, Glen Gardner, NJ 08826.
Speaker:Randi V. Wilfert Eckel,PhD , President, NPSNJ & Owner of Toadshade Wildflower Farm
Topic: Native Plants and Water Management – Starting in our own Backyards
Learn how to beautify your property with colorful, native plants that attract butterflies and birds while also doing your part to mitigate local flooding and waterway pollution. Randi will talk about the importance of stormwater management starting in your own backyards and elaborate on the benefits of using native plants to aid in stormwater management.
PLEASE REGISTER IF YOU PLAN TO COME. hunterdon@npsnj.org
The Lebanon Township Fire Department ( located at 528 West Hill Road, Glen Gardner, NJ 08826) has graciously offered for us to use their building for our meetings Free of charge! So we'll have the Fire boot at the door in case you want to donate something to the local Fire Department as a thank-you.
Free monarda didyma plug to everyone who comes to our April Meeting and Talk. 
Habitat for monarda didyma includes moist open woodlands, woodland borders, thickets, meadows in floodplain areas, and waste areas.
Monarda didyma has a dense, rounded, terminal, head-like cluster of bright red, tubular flowers atop a square stem. The 3 ft. stems are lined with large, oval, dark-green leaves. Individual flowers are narrowly tube-shaped, tightly clustered together in 2 in. heads. The leaves have a minty aroma and is attractive to hummingbirds
Everyone is invited - you do not have to be a Hunterdon resident. Share this information with any others who may be interested. The program is free. No meetings in July, August and December.
More information: hunterdon@npsnj.org
Chapter contacts are Susan Haake and Dawn Pogosaew: hunterdon@npsnj.org
Find out how this chapter has been supporting native plants: About Hunterdon Chapter
Jersey Shore Chapter
Jersey Shore Chapter Meeting:
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We look forward to seeing you at our meetings!
Dear Jersey Shore Chapter members and native plant enthusiasts, as a reminder, the Jersey Shore Chapter meets on the first Tuesday of each month from 6:30-8:00pm.
Jersey Shore Chapter Co-leaders,
Karen Walzer, Pam Almeida and Becky Laboy
For more information: email:jerseyshore@npsnj.org.
Monmouth Chapter
NEW Monmouth Chapter - Kickoff Meeting
Wednesday, April 6
6:00 – 7:30 pm
Description:
The newly forming Monmouth Chapter of the NJ Native Plant Society invites you to attend our organizational kickoff meeting on Wednesday, April 6 at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom. Please bring any ideas for NJNPS events you would like to see in Monmouth County! We also need volunteers and chapter leaders. If you would like to be part of the steering committee for the new chapter, please contact Kim Rowe at krowe48483@gmail.com
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpf-CsrDstG9yYyFwN3MYDOOIfjpRmT3Fo
This is a recurring meeting until Jul22. Once registered, attendees do not have to register for the balance of recurring meetings.
Monmouth Chapter Leader,
Kim Rowe
For more information, email: monmouth@npsnj.org.
Rancocas Nature Center Chapter
April Activity:
April 24th from 1:00-3pm
Earth Day
Trinity Episcopal Church
207 West Main Street, Moorestown, NJ.
Join us to celebrate Earth Day with fun family activities, native plant sale, talk, and garden tour
Parking at municipal lots on either side of West 2nd St, across Church St from Trinity Episcopal
Please join us in celebrating and supporting the earth by learning about native plants, and about the insects and animals that depend on them; then, bring some native plants home to turn your yard into a thriving ecosystem.
1:00 PM For the kids Kids receive free native plants (while supplies last). Make and decorate a plant ID stake; decorate a pot for your native seedlings & take it all home. All Free!
Native Plant Nurseries, Toadshade Wildflower Farm, Summersweet Native Plants, and Pinelands Direct Nursery will be selling native plants perfect for your beautiful, backyard habitats.
Coffee & baked goods available for an afternoon treat.
2:15 PM Presentation: "If You Plant It, They Will Come," by Randi Eckel, PhD Entomologist, Randi Eckel will give a presentation about how native plants are more than just beautiful; planted in your own gardens, they will sustain insects, pollinators, and our whole ecosystem.
Followed by home garden tour of the Native Plant Society's horticulturist. Experience how growing native plants can be beautiful and beneficial. All activities are free and open to the public.
Chapter Leader: Jay Kratz
For more information contact rancocas@npsnj.org.
The Southeast Chapter of NPSNJ
The Southeast Chapter of NPSNJ - Our Chapter's Next Get-Together:
Saturday, April 23, 2-5 pm (Rain date, April 24, 2-5 pm)
A Spring Native Gardens - Inspiration Tour
These two delightful Atlantic County backyard habitats differ in shape, size, design, and the mix of sun and shade, but both have a rich diversity of native plants and demonstrate a commitment to pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. Both feature rain gardens, pollinator gardens, and pathways of herbaceous perennials, as well as woody plants of many species.
Spring native perennials to be seen in one or both gardens include golden ragwort, dwarf crested iris, Dutchman’s breeches, Solomon’s seal, fleabane, wild ginger, creeping Phlox, woodland poppy, pussytoes, Allegheny spurge, shooting star, twin leaf, bird’s foot violet, Labrador violet, pink lady slipper, Tiarella, Amsonia blue star, Eastern columbine, wood anemone, green-and-gold, barren strawberry, Canada mayflower, May apple, Virginia bluebells, Jacob’s ladder, and a variety of ferns.The addresses of the gardens:
Barbara & Steve Fiedler
414 Cresson Avenue
Galloway, NJ 08205
Jesse & Jack Connor
35 Clark’s Landing Road
Port Republic, NJ 08241
You can begin at either one and move to the other when you choose. We will have Native Plant Society signs at both. (Parking at the Connor’s is also available along their backyard wooden deer fence on Pomona Road. The gate will be open.)
We hope to see you there!
Questions - email: Southeast@NPSNJ.org
We are excited about our local NPSNJ chapter that serves native plant enthusiasts in Atlantic County and Cape May County as well as anyone from areas west or north who would like to join us. We hold eight evening meetings a year on the 3rd Monday of the month (September, October, November, February, March, April, May, and June).
For more information, contact Jesse Connor at email: southeast@npsnj.org.
Jesse Connor, Jack Connor, Barbara Fiedler, and Steve Fiedler
Meet our chapter- Southeast chapter
Sussex Chapter
The NPS Sussex Chapter meets once a month on the first Monday at 7pm. (Feb.-Nov.) The group is comprised of a number of Rutgers Master Gardeners and native plant enthusiasts of all experience levels. At our monthly meetings we plan field trips to various native plant gardens and parks both in and out of county. We share our personal garden experiences as well as do research and share topics of interest with the group. During the pandemic we have been meeting on the NPS zoom platform, but once we are able to gather in person we will continue meetings at the Sussex-Wantage Library Community Room (69 County Route 639, Sussex, 07461) or outside hosted by different members at their homes. Please respond to our NPS email address if you would like to receive monthly updates.
For April - Meeting: Apr 4, 2022 07:00 PM Click here to Join the Meeting
If by phone: 646 558 8656 Meeting ID: 895 9022 4997, Passcode: 580515
This same join link works for all the meetings.
Every month on the First Mon, 9 occurrence(s) • Apr 4, 2022, May 2, 2022, Jun 6, 2022, Jul 4, 2022, Aug 1, 2022, Sep 5, 2022 ,Oct 3, 2022, Nov 7, 2022
There is no meeting in December or January.
Chapter leaders: Cynthia Rauth & April Fisher
For more information contact our Sussex County Co-leaders: Cynthia Rauth and April Fisher at: sussex@npsnj.org
Meet our chapter- Sussex chapter
Other Announcements
To be announced
