San Clemente Garden Club

FEBRUARY 2010

Preserving Our Local Native Wildlife Habitat

Emily Igarashi

The Donna O’Neill Land Conservancy in San Juan Capistrano was established in 1990 to preserve and protect 1200 acres of Orange County’s rapidly disappearing native habitat.  Emily has been a naturalist since 2002 and Program Director of the Conservancy since 2007.  She leads weeding volunteers as they remove invasive mustard, artichoke thistle, pampas grass, and Tokolote.  In addition to introducing the different types of native habitats on the Conservancy, she will show which plants are invasive, talk about how we eliminate or reduce the invasive weeds non-chemically and give examples of ongoing projects to restore native habitats to their original beauty.

February 1 OC District Meeting 9:30 am
February 3 Board Meeting 9:30 am
February 3 Membership Meeting/Program 1:00 pm
February 9 Pier Garden  8:00 am
  Library Memorial Garden   8:30 am
  Marine Monument  9:00 pm
February 10 Propagation Workshop  9:30 am
February 10 Round Robin Bridge   12:30 pm
February 11 Junior Gardeners-Marblehead 2:15 pm
February 17 Field Trip 9:30 am
February 18 Junior Gardeners-Concordia 2:15 pm
February 24 City Hall Rose Garden 9:00 am
February 25 Casa Garden 9:00 am