CNPS- Willis L Jepson Chapter

06/17/2026

The 2026 Bay Area Butterfly Festival was amazing! We sold over 50 California native plants, and made lots of great conversations with folks interested in conservation.

Thank you to Vallejo People's Garden for hosting us! The garden is amazing, and it was great to direct interested people to fully established native plants right on site. :)

We hope to attend again next year!

06/17/2026

Stebbins Cold Canyon Reserve is a great hiking location in Solano County. Their June 2026 newsletter features an update on hiking conditions. https://calnativeplant-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/willisljepson_cnps_org/IQCbyDtvOBkgQ5Kevx0iS6VZAQUAeHxqcRToQ8jMuzF3SmI?e=MCEMfE

06/17/2026

Sunday's Bay Area Butterfly Festival was the inaugural event for the CNPS Jepson Chapter's new pop-up tent. We are grateful for the volunteers who staffed the table and for our visitors.

06/07/2026

Come visit us at the Bay Area Butterfly Festival next Sunday! We’ll be selling a variety of native plants, have pollinator coloring pages, and answering any native plant related questions. 😊

06/04/2026

Blooming now at Lake Solano Park:

- Foothill penstemon ‘Penstemon Heterophyllus’ with a honey bee 🐝
- Red bush monkey flower ‘Diplacus aurantiacus var. puniceus’ with a bumblebee 🐝
- Desert bluebells ‘Phacelia campanularia’
- Vinegarweed ‘Trichostema lanceolatum’

The first two were planted in the demonstration garden intentionally, however, the other two are volunteers. The area where the 2020 LNU fire burned has had an amazing variety of self-seeded native annuals this year!

06/04/2026

Biodiversity in Urban Gardens: California Statewide Project Kickoff Webinar! 🌿🌸🐝🐦‍⬛

Learn about urban biodiversity, discover the power of community science, and find out how you can get involved.

Join us Wednesday, June 10 at 6 PM for an introduction to the Biodiversity in Urban Gardens (BUG): California Community Science Project—a statewide effort to document biodiversity in public, home, and neighborhood gardens across California using iNaturalist.

📋 Register at https://bit.ly/439yJ4c

The BUG project is made possible with generous project support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Special thanks also to the Mary A. Crocker Trust and the CNPS Santa Clara Valley Chapter for their generous support of BUG in Santa Clara and southern San Mateo counties.

05/26/2026

Native ferns in the garden

05/26/2026

Native Fern Sale starts tomorrow at the East Bay Regional Botanic Garden

Announcing our inventory reduction sale of California Native Ferns. Quantities and prices below (all are in 3” pots unless otherwise noted).

05/13/2026

What’s blooming in Solano County in May? 🌷:

* California poppies and tidy tips
* Tidy tips (Layia platyglossa)
* Western columbine (Aquilegia canadensis)
* Blue-head Gilia (Gilia capitata)
* California wild rose (Rosa californica)
* Woolly blue curls (Trichostema lanatum)

05/13/2026