Author: Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds

Summer Events with KSNS

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on June 12, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

KSNS will be part of a great lineup of local native plant focused events this summer in southwest Oregon! Come along to learn and have fun!

Tour the Troon Vineyard Native Plant & Pollinator Botanical Garden created by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds

June 20, 2024 10am-Noon

A free event to see up to 94 species of native plants all in one beautiful location! Registration requested.

In December 2020 Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds installed a half-acre native plant and pollinator botanical garden at Troon Vineyard in the Applegate Valley. To date, 94+ species of native plants have been established in the garden, primarily from direct seeding, with some native planting from nursery plants. With paths and plant signs to guide you through the botanical garden, and views out towards the Applegate foothills and Grayback Mountain, the Troon Vineyard Native Plant Botanical Garden provides an easy and delightful place to learn about native plants, pollinators, and a demonstration about how to incorporate more native plants into the farm and vineyard setting.

Suzie Savoie of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds will walk tour participants through the paths of the botanical garden, providing detailed information for various species along the way, including:

• Plant identification
• Plant habitat in the wild
• Pollinator ecology
• Plant propagation and establishment methods in the garden
• Plant care and at-home gardening recommendations

Hosted by Pollinator Project Rogue Valley, this is a not-to-be-missed opportunity to experience an 8-year old 100% native pollinator garden on a conserved private property on Mt. Ashland Ski Road. The garden was installed by Suzie Savoie of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds. The nature-scaped garden has been thriving ever since, providing amazing habitat for native bees, butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, wasps and more.

Choose June 29, September 7, or both days. Maximum of 20 participants for each date.
Register to receive location information.

The workshop takes place over 2 days. Choose June 29, September 7, or both days. Maximum of 20 participants for each date.

Topics for June 29: Amaze & Inspire:
* Ecological overview of the location
* Brief history of the property and goals
* Techniques and timeline of how the seeding project was established: seed collection, seeding methods, species selection, etc.
* Invasives / how to deal with them
* Success of initial seeding – what species did well, what didn’t establish
* Focus on specific species with a walk around
* Pollinator and wildlife use of seeded area
* Walk to seed collection sites for the fall

Topics for September 7: All About Seeds:
* Ethical seed collection
* Legal requirements for seed collection on public land, personal use vs. commercial use
* Timing of seed collection
* Materials are needed for seed collection
* Invasives / how to deal with them
* Elevational belts: How understanding elevational differences between seed collections is important forrestoration and landscaping uses of native seeds
* How to use the seed: direct sow, nursery plants, seed treatment requirements, etc.
* How to collect seeds of different species
* Rough seed cleaning with basic implements
* How to direct-sow chaffy seeds, or partially cleaned seeds

Participants will take home seeds for further drying and cleaning.

Please plan to bring your lunch, beverage, hat, sun protection, gloves, and a chair if needed. We will be walking on a mountain property, so wear comfortable and closed toed shoes.

Location information provided after registration.

Workshop leader: Suzie Savoie is co-owner of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds & Siskiyou Ecological Services, co-author of Native Pollinator Plants for S. Oregon, editor of The Siskiyou Crest: Hikes, History & Ecology, and co-producer of the local film, Sagebrush to Sea: A Journey Across the Siskiyou Crest. Suzie provides native seed collection services, online native seed packet sales, native nursery plants, and native plant consultations. For more than 20 years, Suzie has been sharing native plants for gardens and habitat restoration from her property in the Applegate Valley, and she enjoys helping others do the same.

Thanks to the Mark A. Newberger Philanthropic Fund of the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation for your support of this workshop series!

This field trip series has been amazing so far! We have led four of the eight trips, and each one has been so full of information and gorgeous flowers, interesting rare conifers, and wild views of the Siskiyous. There are four more trips to go this summer! Come join us! Registration is almost full for most of the remaining dates, so register soon!

This summer Suzie and Luke from Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds, along with other amazing local botanists, are helping lead 8 different field trips to visit all 25 conifer species that grow in the Siskiyou Crest region in southwest Oregon and northwest California.

We have coordinated the field trip series as a fundraiser for Applegate Siskiyou Alliance, a local conservation and advocacy organization that Luke is the executive director for.

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The Siskiyou Crest is at the heart of the Klamath-Siskiyou ecoregion and home to one of the richest coniferous forest regions of the world, including endemic conifer species that grow nowhere else on earth.

The Siskiyou Crest Conifer Field Trip Series highlights the 25 species of conifers that grow in the Siskiyou Crest region. From moist, low elevation, forested canyons, to dry, rocky ridgelines at high elevations, the field trip series will visit each conifer species in the wide variety of ecosystems they inhabit.

Each field trip will be led by Luke Ruediger of Applegate Siskiyou Alliance, and Suzie Savoie of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds, as well as expert botanists and ecologists from around the region, including: Wayne Rolle (Little Grayback trip), Romain Cooper (Sucker Creek Trip), Julie Spelletich & Richard Callagan (Anderson Butte trip), Scot Loring (Sundew Lake trip), Barb Mumblo (Big Red/Dutchman/Tamarack & Whisky Peak trips), Matt Dybala (Miller Lake trip) and Julie Kierstead (Mt. Ashland trip).

The field trips will discuss a wide variety of topics related to the specific conifers visited, and depending on the trip, will also cover general ecology, botany, biodiversity, habitat connectivity, wildlife associations, non-vascular plant associations, fire ecology, and they will be fun adventures at popular destinations, as well as remote, backcountry areas that are seldom visited. Field trip leaders will point out and help identify wildflowers, shrubs and other tree species during the trips as well.

Come botanize with us on this conifer adventure series, and meet some new friends — humans and plants — along the way.

Come botanize with us!

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on April 14, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

We have coordinated the field trip series as a fundraiser for Applegate Siskiyou Alliance, a local conservation and advocacy organization that Luke is the executive director for. Registration is opening just in time for Native Plant Appreciation Month!

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Come botanize with us on this conifer adventure series, and meet some new friends — humans and plants — along the way.

Sustainable Power and Packaging

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on February 21, 2024. Posted in Uncategorized.

Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds (KSNS) understands that our impact doesn’t stop once our seeds are collected and cleaned. How we package and ship them matters as well. That’s why we’ve invested in eco-friendly, circular packaging that is 100% recycled and recyclable. Learn more.

And we’ve partnered with EcoEnclose for our packaging materials.

We use EcoEnclose mailers that are water resistant for the majority of our orders, and we are switching over to EcoEnclose paper packaging tape to limit the amount of plastic we use, to help reduce waste in landfills.

Our seed packets and seed packet labels are made out of recycled paper material.

Our packing slips are printed on 100% recycled, post-consumer paper.

And our whole operation is run off of solar power from our off-grid location in the Siskiyou Mountains.

Our orders are shipped from the Jacksonville, Oregon post office. Maybe some day we’ll have an electric vehicle powered by solar power to drop our orders off there, but for now we still have a gas powered pickup truck. We are taking the steps we can to be as sustainable as we can, one step at a time.

We are committed to a high ecological standard that limits our impacts to the environment and the climate. Thanks for sharing that commitment with us! -Suzie & Luke

Update on Recent Projects and Happy New Year!

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on December 29, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Happy New Year from Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds!

Although we have been collecting and using native seeds for various work and projects in our lives for more than 15 years, 2024 officially marks the 9-years anniversary of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds (KSNS), and it has been our biggest year so far! We have sold more native seeds and seed packets than ever. Thanks to you and your enthusiasm and passion for native plants, native pollinators, and native habitat, we continue to grow and provide more seeds and more services for increasing native plants. Our work with KSNS also allows us to work for native plant conservation and protection in our spare time as volunteers, or in other work we do with other organizations. We love what we do and we look forward to continuing this work in 2024! Here’s a recap of some of our very busy fall projects.

Watch this 2-minute video about a recent native seeding project KSNS helped with that used tarping for site preparation before native seeding. Do you want to grow native plants from seed, but have existing non-native vegetation you need to control first? This introductory video might help you better understand the process of using plastic tarps for weed control to prepare an area for native seeding. Thanks to Anna Eichner for some of the photos used in the video.

In November KSNS returned to Troon Vineyard to help sow native seeds collected in the Troon Vineyard Native Plant & Pollinator Botanical Garden, for use in other areas of the vineyard. We also dug up and transplanted more plants out of the gardens for use in additional areas of the vineyard as well, as part of an effort to increase native plant habitat in more areas on the property. While there we used propane torches to burn the small native meadow that is part of the botanical garden. Burning the area helped control non-native seedlings that were starting to germinate in early fall. It also helped remove thatch from last year’s growth, mimicking fire in nature, and creating more space where we sowed additional native seeds for increased diversity in the meadow. Three years from establishment, the meadow is starting to shift from annuals to more perennials, as the perennials grow and start to hold more space in the meadow area.

Even small areas in a backyard can have a big impact for native plant habitat. We recently helped with a small native seeding project in a backyard garden where a small “meadow” strip will be incorporated into existing native and non-native drought tolerant landscaping. The bare soil in the photos was seeded with 30 species of native wildflowers after planting a few potted Roemer’s fescue native grasses among the rocks. The rocks are in place to discourage the friendly deer that live in the area from laying down on the small native seedlings when they start to emerge in the spring. This is a wildlife friendly garden where the deer like to rest.

This native seeding project that took place in November utilized seeds from 38 species of native wildflowers and grasses. The property owner helped sow the seeds, along with her little dog that supervised the project. After the seed sowing was completed a temporary fence was erected to keep the many deer and turkeys in the area from trampling and scratching the seeds and emerging seedlings. The temporary fence will be removed after plant establishment. A very light layer of straw was used to cover this seeded area because of the erosive nature of decomposed granite soil on a slight slope. The straw will help keep the seeds in place during heavy rainstorms, but it will still let enough light through for seeds that require light to germinate.

Who needs a fence to catch errant basketballs on a sport court when you can grow a native hedge for that purpose? As part of a 6-year long native seeding and planting project at Klamath River Club on the Klamath River in northern California, where native plantings and native seeded meadows have been incorporated into many different areas of the property, the recently constructed sport court is no exception. A native hedge with many different species of native shrubs and perennial wildflowers, many grown using KSNS native seeds, has been planted to define the edges of the sport court and provide important native plant and pollinator habitat in an area that had recent ground disturbance. This will also help combat the many non-native species that are trying to move into the disturbed ground. A basketball game while taking in the wonderful scents and colors of the blooming native shrubs will be a lot of fun. This proves that anywhere can be native plant habitat!

Another interesting project we helped with this fall was a project that focused on seeding and planting native plants on berms. The berms were constructed a year prior and were tarped with black plastic to control weeds. The concept is to create layered habitat, with native trees and shrubs in clumps, interspersed with native wildflowers and grasses. Another crew helped with the tree and shrub planting from potted nursery plants, and when they were done, KSNS helped with sowing 44 different species of native seeds, including annual and perennial wildflowers, and a few native bunchgrasses, into the open areas in between the tree and shrub clumps. This layered habitat will allow for a wide variety of pollinators, birds, and other wildlife to utilize the diverse structure and diverse species included in the project area. Tarps will be placed in between the berms this year for continued weed control and possible future seeding to expand the footprint of the native seeding and planting project in future years. The property owner helped sow the wide variety of native seeds, and when done a very light layer of straw was used to hold the seed in place on the berms during heavy winter rain.

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20% OFF Native Seed Packets for Sustainable Holiday Shopping

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on November 22, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are some of the biggest shopping days of the year. The celebration of consumerism results in a huge environmental impact, as most of the “bargain” products are created in ways that harm the environment, and most will eventually end up in the landfill. Whether you boycott Black Friday and Cyber Monday altogether, or commit to purchasing from only reputable sustainable or eco-friendly businesses, there are ways protect the environment and lessen the impacts to our climate during the holiday gift giving season.

In order to promote an alternative to plastic, electronic, or other unsustainable holiday gifts, we are offering a 20% discount (Enter Coupon Code: NATIVESEEDS4THEHOLIDAYS at checkout) on all our native seed packets for orders $25 and up, from now until Giving Tuesday. And on Giving Tuesday we encourage you to donate to your local, grassroots non-profit working to protect native ecosystems.

Limited Time Offer!

Enter coupon code: NATIVESEEDS4THEHOLIDAYS at checkout to receive 20% off native seed packets on orders $25 and up.

This offer will end at midnight on Giving Tuesday, November 28, 2023!

Late fall to early winter is a great time to sow native seeds so they can overwinter outside and germinate in the spring. Right now is a great time to buy native seeds for yourself or as a holiday gift for friends or family. Native seeds are a gift that keeps on giving — for pollinators, for habitat, and for the future of biodiversity!

Happy (Sustainable) Holidays from Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds

Propagating Native Plants from Seed Presentation

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on November 12, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Last week, Suzie from Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds gave an online presentation for the OSU Extension Land Stewards Program, based out of the Southern Oregon Research and Extension Center in Jackson County.

Presentation description: This class presents basic skills for successful native seed collection, cleaning, and propagation to help you grow native plants to increase biodiversity and habitat on your land or in your garden. Topics include ethical native seed collection techniques, seed cleaning with basic home supplies, seed germination requirements for specific species, growing natives in nursery containers, and direct seeding techniques.

The presentation is about an hour and fifteen minutes, with some Q&A at the end. There is a few minutes of announcements by the Land Stewards host at the beginning of the recording, and the presentation begins about four minutes into the recording. Click on the YouTube link above to watch the presentation.

KSNS thanks the OSU Land Stewards Program for hosting this presentation, and for all the work they do to inform rural landowners in southwest Oregon about how to foster and support native plant communities.

Get Seedy This Fall

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on October 18, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Originally published in the Applegater Newsmagazine, Fall 2023

By Suzie Savoie

As summer heat moves into cooler, moister fall weather, it’s time to start thinking of sowing the native seeds acquired this year. You may have collected and cleaned native seeds from plants on your own land or purchased some native seeds that are in a box in a drawer or sitting on your desk. The next step is to plan what to do with these seeds.

Fall to early winter is the best time to sow native seeds to help restore native plant communities, increase floral biodiversity for pollinators, and reduce invasive species. Native plants are known to support a greater abundance and diversity of bees, butterflies, and other wildlife compared to nonnative plants.

More and more people in the Applegate Valley and the larger region are wanting to increase both the quantity of native species on their land for higher quality wildlife habitat, as well as for community and cultural benefits such as native plant medicine, traditional foods, basketry materials, or to simply luxuriate in a more attractive and colorful landscape. With the right species selection, native plants also require much less watering.

Although it seems counterintuitive, the seeds of many native species germinate in the fall. Seeds respond to fall rain or dew that moistens the soil and triggers fall germination. This strategy enables these species to overwinter as a small rosette of leaves, ready to bolt and flower as soon as the weather warms in the spring. These cool-season species get a jump start on growth in the fall, putting energy into underground root systems and basal leaves through the winter.

In nature, wildflowers disperse their seeds onto the ground or into the air in the summer, and as fall rains begin, some of these seeds can germinate and grow rapidly during cool, rainy fall and winter conditions. Annual wildflowers are more likely to germinate and grow in the fall, but some perennial wildflowers and native grasses will as well.

In order to help these species achieve fall germination, the seeds must be sown outside just before the first fall rain to mimic the natural cycles of seed drop and germination in the wild. The warm fall soil temperatures and rain trigger seed germination. Sowing the seeds before the first significant fall rain enables them to have enough moisture to germinate before the temperatures turn colder in early winter.

The following are examples of native species whose seeds can germinate in the fall.

Annuals

Diamond clarkia (Clarkia rhomboidea)

Blue eyed mary (Collinsia grandiflora)

Bluehead gilia (Gilia capitata)

Bicolor lupine (Lupinus bicolor)

Shortspur sea blush (Plectritis congesta)

Perennials

Woodland madia (Anisocarpus madioides)

Western thistle (Cirsium occidentale)

California poppy (Eschscholzia californica)

Western buttercup (Ranunculus occidentalis)

Grasses

California brome (Bromus carinatus)

Tufted hairgrass (Deschampsia cespitosa)

Blue wildrye (Elymus glaucus)

Junegrass (Koeleria macrantha)

and more!

To prepare a spot for sowing native seeds, first remove existing weeds or grass without digging or tilling any deeper than a few inches. Deeper digging may unearth dormant weed seeds and encourage them to germinate, thereby increasing weed growth, which you don’t want. It is best to leave the deeply buried weed seeds undisturbed in a dormant state beneath the soil. If you have weedy rhizomatous grasses (e.g., crabgrass) or groundcovers (e.g., vinca or ivy), you will need to either solarize or tarp the area for at least one summer before seeding to clear the area of invasive plants.

For optimal results, sow seeds on a cleared area of soil, lightly rake the seeds into the soil, and then gently water. Since seeds need light and air, as well as contact with bare soil to germinate well, they won’t succeed if scattered directly over thick mulch or buried too deeply. The rule of thumb is to sow seeds as deeply as they are thick. You can cover seeds with a very light dusting of sifted potting soil, but keep in mind some seeds need light to germinate.

If there is a dry spell between rains in the fall, be sure to water! Seeds must receive regular moisture for optimal fall germination. Keep the soil consistently moist, but not waterlogged, as that can cause the seeds and/or seedlings to rot.

Other native plant seeds that don’t germinate in the fall should still be sown outside in fall to early winter to achieve the varying lengths of “cold-moist stratification” required for them to germinate in late winter to early spring.

For more information on native seed germination, including seeding into burn pile areas, check out Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seed’s Seed Germination and Propagation Reference Guide.

Happy fall seed sowing!

Plectritis congesta-Sea blush — Shortspur seablush (Plectritis congesta) seed capsules

A Berry Exciting Time of Year

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on October 17, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Each fall we work as hard as we can to clean as much seed from the year’s seed collecting season as possible to get folks what they need for all their various native seeding projects. We still have a lot more seed to clean!

At the end of summer and on into late fall, native plants produce many different types of fleshy fruits that have different structures, such as berries, drupes, and pomes. Most people use the colloquial and scientific term “berry” as a general way to refer to fleshy fruits, even though that may not be the correct botanical terminology, depending on the species and fruit. Even still, it’s easy to just use the term berry as a catch-all term for all the colorful native fruits.

Collecting native berries is popular for food, natural dyes, beads, medicine, and many other reasons. Most likely you have a fond memory of picking wild, native berries at some point in your life: huckleberries, elderberries, currants, gooseberries and more!

Here at Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds, we spend a lot of time collecting native berries this time of year so we can supply the seeds of many different types of berry producing species. It’s a “berry exciting time of year!”

When berries are at their peak of ripeness we have to set all other seed cleaning aside to focus on getting the fruits collected and cleaned before the birds and wildlife beat us to them, before fall rains knock the berries off the plants, and before the berries either dry out or mold as the season progresses.

12 different species of berries collected in a couple seed collecting trips and waiting to be cleaned.

Although it creates a hectic, “collect them, clean them while you can” time period, this “berry time of year” is truly exciting. All the different colors, shapes and forms of native fruits we can collect in this area highlights the immense biodiversity of the Klamath-Siskiyou region that is home to a dizzying array of native plant species. From valley bottom chaparral and oak woodlands, to high elevation wet meadows and red fir forests, there are berry producing species that wildlife rely on for food and habitat.

Fruits are important for the evolutionary success of flowering plants because the fleshy fruit protects seeds, aids in seed dispersal, and sometimes even helps with seed germination. No matter the biological or evolutionary reasons berries exist, they are colorful, beautiful parts of the ecosystem that light up the forest or woodland with adornment and nourishment, and are something everyone can appreciate and enjoy for so many different reasons.

We hope you enjoy this “berry exciting time of year” as plants produce colorful fruits for the future, and as the weather shifts and plants go dormant, waiting for the burst of life next spring.

A selection of the fruits of our labor, from seed collecting trips are below. Now is a great time to sow seeds of berry producing species!

From Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds

Have a berry happy fall! 🙂

Claspleaf twistedstalk (Streptopus amplexifolius)

Streptopus amplexifolius-Claspleaf twistedstalk

Clintonia uniflora – Bead lily

Sambucus nigra spp. caerulea-Blue elderberry

Ribes cereum-Wax currant

Prunus emarginata-Bitter cherry

Prosartes hookeri-Hooker’s fairybells

Purpleflower honeysuckle (Lonicera conjugialis)

Lonicera conjugialis-Purpleflower honeysuckle

Marshall’s gooseberry (Ribes marshallii)

Ribes marshallii – Marshall’s gooseberry

Blackcap raspberries (Rubus leucodermis)

Rubus leucodermis-Blackcap raspberry

Chaparral honeysuckle (Lonicera interrupta)

Lonicera interrupta-Chaparral honeysuckle

Calfornia wild grape (Vitis californica)

Vitis californica-California wild grape

Summer Round Up

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on September 5, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

Suzie and her mom, Joy, collecting western redbud (Cercis occidentalis) seeds a couple weeks ago.

The summer seed collection season will be winding down over the next couple months as we shift into cooler, moister fall weather. This time of year we are usually too busy with seed collecting and cleaning to do much blog writing, but we wanted to share some highlights from this spring and summer before the summer slips away.

On May 23^rd Suzie Savoie of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds gave a presentation, Food Plants for Butterflies Part 2, for Pollinator Project Rogue Valley. This presentation highlights native plants that are beneficial for butterflies in southwest Oregon and northwest California. You can watch the Zoom presentation below to learn more about native plants that butterflies love!

On June 1st, Suzie gave a presentation, Growing Native Plants from Seed, for the Jackson County Master Gardeners Association at the OSU Extension meeting room in Central Point in southern Oregon. This in-person presentation covered the basics of growing native plants from seed using simple techniques for the native home nursery.

On June 17th Suzie and Luke gave a tour of the Troon Vineyard Native Plant and Pollinator Botanical Garden, at Troon Vineyard in the Applegate Valley in southern Oregon. Suzie and Luke from Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds helped create the project and are really pleased to share the abundance of blooms, butterflies and bees in the native garden! Below are some photos of the tour and videos of the pollinator profusion on a couple species of wildflower growing in the gardens: coyote mint and arrowleaf buckwheat!

On July 1st Suzie led the first of a two-part workshop on private, conserved land below Mt. Ashland in southern Oregon, where participants were able to tour Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seed’s seven year old native seeding project on the property, and learn about how it was established. Workshop participants learned to identify different species, as well as the specific growing requirements to grow them from seed. Participants also learned to identify and pull non-native plants that have seeded into the gardens, and some time was spent pulling weeds and talking about weed management and overall site maintenance. You can view the photos from Part 1 of the workshop at PPRV’s photo album from the day at the following link:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/rdxTVE8ZzcGSkh2R6

Part 2 of the workshop is coming up this coming weekend, and will be focused on seed collection, seed cleaning, seed sowing, and more hands-on activities. We’re looking forward to it!

On July 14-16 Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds (KSNS) sponsored the Siskiyou Crest Festival, organized by the Siskiyou Crest Coalition, that took place in Williams in southern Oregon. We were one of many businesses, non-profits, and individuals that chipped in to make the event a success! The event featured a series of field trips, speakers, poetry, an art show, and so much more! Luke from KSNS was part of a keynote speaker lineup at the event, with his presentation, The Siskiyou Crest: Relationships, Biodiversity & Connectivity. And Luke and Suzie led one of the free field trips on July 14th, as part of the Festival, up to Lily Pad Lake in the Red Buttes Wilderness.

Lily Pad Lake field trip in the Red Buttes, led by Luke Ruediger and Suzie Savoie as part of the Siskiyou Crest Festival.

And of course we continue to be out and about and in the field as much as possible collecting seeds to bring you the species you want to grow! Every year is different, with some species producing seed more than others, but every year we add new species to our offerings, and this year is no different. We’ve recently added the following new, late blooming wildflower species to our SHOP page:

Bidens frondosa – Sticktight

We hope you get outside in some wild places in nature and enjoy the end of summer and start dreaming of seeding and planting native plants this fall!

Two-Part Native Seeding Project Workshop Coming Up in Ashland, OR

Written by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds on June 9, 2023. Posted in Uncategorized.

If you live in southwest Oregon or northwest California, this upcoming workshop with Suzie Savoie of Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds will help you learn the basics of using native seeds for landscaping and habitat restoration. Topics will include seeding methods, plant ID, project maintenance, seed collection, and much more! You can register for this two-part workshop here.

Author: Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds

Summer Events with KSNS

KSNS will be part of a great lineup of local native plant focused events this summer in southwest Oregon! Come along to learn and have fun!

Tour the Troon Vineyard Native Plant & Pollinator Botanical Garden created by Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds

Come botanize with us on this conifer adventure series, and meet some new friends — humans and plants — along the way.

Come botanize with us!

Come botanize with us on this conifer adventure series, and meet some new friends — humans and plants — along the way.

Sustainable Power and Packaging

Update on Recent Projects and Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds!

New Products Now in Stock!

20% OFF Native Seed Packets for Sustainable Holiday Shopping

Propagating Native Plants from Seed Presentation

Get Seedy This Fall

A Berry Exciting Time of Year

From Klamath-Siskiyou Native Seeds

Have a berry happy fall! 🙂

Summer Round Up

We hope you get outside in some wild places in nature and enjoy the end of summer and start dreaming of seeding and planting native plants this fall!

Two-Part Native Seeding Project Workshop Coming Up in Ashland, OR

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