More bumping up

Anne, Nanci, Greg, and David "bumped up" Giant needlegrass, Monkey flower, Sticky Cinqfoil, Deer grass and Golden yarrow. Also Supervising Ranger Sweet (not pictured) came by and kept us company and shared his insights. A good day all around.

Bumping Up

Nanci and I worked Friday, Nov 24, and Sunday, Nov 26, it was Sarah, Paul and myself. Nanci and Sarah bumped up the remaining Scrub Oak and Coast Live Oak acorns into 4” tall pots, Quercus berberidifolia and Quercus agrifolia respectively. The rats/mice eat the tops off early, so the hutches laid on their sides provided convenient caging until the oaks get at least 8” tall. Nanci and Sarah did the oaks. Paul did all the Purple Needle grass, Nassella pulchra, and jointly Sarah and Paul did 3 flats of Giant Needle grass, Achnatherum coronatum. I did two flats of Encelia californica. Very productive weekend! See slideshow for pictures. (Click any pic to enlarge)

Nursery Video Tour 2006

Nix Center Opening

The opening of the Nix Center in Laguna Coast Wilderness Park was attended by over 1,000 people. The Nix Center’s initial planting was 1,600 California native bunch grasses grown the Laguna Greenbelt’s Nursery. See OC Register article which mentions the Nursery’s native bunch grasses being planted. See slideshow for pictures. (Click any pic to enlarge)

Planting Grass at Nix

Time to get 1,600 grass plants, propagated at the volunteer Nursery, into the ground at the Nix Center at Laguna Wilderness Park. Kimberly, Elliott (not pictured), Barbara and Francisco were the catalyst… with a prison crew from Casper’s coming to help over the next few days. The plot you see is about 400 square yards, or about 13 flats… we have 50, so there’s a lot of grass to go around the Nix Center. See slideshow for pictures. (Click any pic to enlarge)

Farewell to Native Grasses

We watered and fertilized 1,600 native grasses the week before they are due to be planted in the Laguna Coast Wilderness Nix Nature Center. Next year’s container plants are in either seed flats or containers. Each seed flat and post is has been inoculated with mycorrhizae.
See complete plant list. See slideshow for pictures. (Click any pic to enlarge)

Seed Flats & Oaks

Tom, David, Sarah and Nanci helped plan, prep, label and prepare seed flats for this year: 15 species in seed flats and 2 species of oaks. We topped the flats with vermiculite to deter fungal gnats. Each species was paired in the flat with a dissimilar plant.
The group also de-bugged oak acorns being stratified and “bumped up” the ones with tap roots into 4” tall square pots.
See complete plant list. See slideshow for pictures. (Click any pic to enlarge)