Ghost Pine Native Plant Nursery

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April 2025 | Issue 1

The Beginning

This is the inaugural newsletter for the educational local nonprofit Ghost Pine Native Plant Nursery (GPNPN). It has taken awhile, but this newsletter has finally come to fruition.

Many of you have bought GPNPN plants, chatted with us at the Redding Farmer’s Market or Earth Day, met us at the Turtle Bay or Shasta College Plant Sales, seen a presentation at a Shasta Master Gardener Workshop or Turtle Bay Plant Talk, or corresponded with us through our website.

We plan to inform you about interesting gardening topics, worthwhile events around town, and the wonders of the Plant of the Month. Since we would like to write about your interests, contact us about what you would like to read about.

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Spring Events Where We Will Have a Booth

We just finished chatting with gardeners and finding good homes for GPNPN native plants during the Turtle Bay and Shasta College plant sales. Come talk about Native Plants with us at:

Earth Day in Caldwell Park -

Saturday, April 19: 11 AM to 4 PM

Garden Fair at Shasta College Farm -

Saturday, April 26: 11 AM to 1 PM

Mason Bee on Penstemon laetus

Attracting Pollinators

Attracting pollinators is one of the hottest topics people request at our Shasta Master Gardener Workshops. Seventy-five percent of the world's flowering plants rely on pollinators. The food web would collapse without pollinators.

Pollinator gardens are habitat gardens that provide resources for pollinators. If you provide food (pollen, nectar), water, and shelter, you are well on your way to attracting pollinators.

The more flowering plants blooming, the more food available for pollinators, and subsequently the more pollinators.

Plants for Sale at Our Online Nursery

We are getting the word out that our local small nonprofit business has wonderful locally propagated, climate-adapted native plants looking for good homes.

Since we must make room for recently propagated plants, the plants from last year are discounted.

If you think other people would like to know about us and would like to receive our newsletter, feel free to send them our contact link.

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Planting Your Native Plant

How to plant your new native plant will help you succeed on your garden journey. Your garden will not only provide vital wildlife habitat, but you can create an aesthetically pleasing landscape that requires fewer resources.

Although maintaining native plants is in general less, thoughtful care of these plants is critical for success. Future newsletter posts will shed light on this important but often overlooked aspect of gardening.

American Valley Sulphur Flower, Eriogonum umbellatum var. dumosum

Assets: Summer color and high wildlife value.

This hardy variety of sulphur buckwheat has one of the most exceptional flower shows among the California flora. The sulfur-yellow flowers appear from spring into summer in a profusion of compact clusters a few inches above a mounding bed of gray-green leaves. The flower fades from yellow to an appealing rusty orange during the summer.

This small, summer semi-deciduous shrub measures 1 – 2 feet tall and 1 – 3 feet wide. Plant in full sun to part shade in companionship with other climate-adapted shrubs and perennials. It does best in well-drained soil and would work great on slopes and banks, on mounds, in rock gardens, and along borders.

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