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Dear DNPW Members,

From this day forward we will no longer be using the www.nativeplantworkshop.ning.com website.  As you know, I am changing our hub from Ning to our own social website (using Buddypress).  Apparently our Ning site (this one) is going to expire tomorrow.  I don't know what will happen, and whether it will function any more, but regardless PLEASE DO NOT USE IT!  

1. If you want to salvage any of your…

October's topic is FLEPPC Listed Category I "Invasive" plants and their Native Plant Look-alikes.  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third Tuesday of each and every month. We convene at…

Dear Native Plant Workshop members,

I am writing this post to let all of you know of some future changes to our Social Website.  Our website host, Ning, is increasing the annual fee to continue our website from $20/year to over $500/year.  So I have decided to leave Ning and am in the process of creating a new social website through Wordpress/Buddypress (our Ning website ends on October 1, 2016).  This will be a learning process for me, and I hope to have the bones of it up and…

September's topic is FLEPPC Listed Category II "Potentially Invasive" plants and their Native Plant Look-alikes.  Please bring in at least 3 plants (they can be cuttings), which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third Tuesday…

August's topic is the Commelinaceae (Dayflower Family).  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third Tuesday of each and every month. We convene at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus's Landscape Technology…

July's topic is the Vitaceae (Grape Family).  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third Tuesday of each and every month. We convene at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus's Landscape Technology Nursery …

A yard volunteer, this grass is clumping and pleasant, so I've let it grow to seed with the hope that it might be native in Broward.…

June's topic is Native Shade Loving Plants.  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third Tuesday of each and every month. We convene at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus's Landscape Technology Nursery …

May's topic is a bit of a departure as we will cover native plants with the most hurricane resistance (Hurricane season begins in June).  We will share our own experiences and discuss characteristics & adaptive strategies which may possibly lend themselves to hurricane resistance.  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant…

In the spirit of April Fools' Day, this month's topic is plants with foolish Common Names.  These are plants whose common name is misleading in one fashion or another (e.g. Australian-pine, is not related to pine trees at all)  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third tuesday of…

March's topic is lawnweeds.  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third tuesday of each and every month. We convene at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus's Landscape Technology Nursery in the…

February's topic is the Myrtaceae (Myrtle family), which includes our stoppers, spicewood, melaleuca, guava, and many more.  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third tuesday of each and every month. We convene at the …

January's meeting topic is native vines.  Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third tuesday of each and every month. We convene at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus's…

December's meeting is our annual Holiday Plant Party please bring in one dish or beverage for all to partake!

The topic is "Festive Plants".  Bring in any native plants which you enjoy using during the holidays.

Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and…

November's meeting topic is Florida endemic plants native to Dade County   Florida endemic species are exclusive to the state and found nowhere else in the world  

Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on…

October's meeting topic is the Beech and Oak family (Fagaceae).   We have lots of oaks in Florida, and they should be in fruit still.  We did cover this family back in April 2013, but I thought we could test out the plant key and descriptions in Wunderlin and Hansen's new book Flora of Florida Volume II which is available for purchase online at…

September's meeting topic is the Sword fern family (Nephrolepidaceae).   In Florida, this plant family consists of a single genus Nephrolepis, and includes Boston fern in addition to five other species.  The topic of this workshop will be lead by Jennifer Possley of Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Jenn is one of the ferniest botanists we have in South Florida.…

August's meeting topic is the Buckwheat family (Polygonaceae).   This plant family contains plants such as pigeon plum, sea grape, and smartweeds.

Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third tuesday of each and every month. We convene at…

July's meeting topic is Butterfly Host Plants.   As opposed to pollinator plants (although some plant species are both).

Please bring in at least 3 plants, which needn't necessarily cover the topic.  

The Native Plant Workshop is FREE, and meets at 7:00PM on the third tuesday of each and every month. We convene at the …

This is a very small plant, a mass about 3-4" high, with very small cream-colored flowers and needle-shaped leaves from green to yellow to orange (seen center right and toward lower right beneath the flowers; not easy to see in photo). These are in the disturbed area (sand) of the newly developed parking area on the north border of the Helene Klein Pineland Preserve, Coconut Creek, Broward, along with the sometimes vivid-orange Rust Weed or Juniperleaf, Polypremum procumbens. We…