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Saturday Dec. 2 — Winter potluck lunch and general meeting
An annual event in place of our formal evening meeting in December. There will be no presentation, but lots of good food and drink and the acceptance by the…
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Monday, November 6: Tour the City of Albuquerque Greenhouse Complex
Leader: Sharon Miles 505-604-6307, Sharon@seniorcareoptions.net The City of Albuquerque’s sprawling greenhouse complex provides thousands of flowers and plants to beautify over 16 city parks. Albuquerque…
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Tuesday, October 24: Tour NMSU Agriculture Science Center at Los Lunas
Leader : Carol Conoboy, carolconoboy@gmail.com Since 1957, New Mexico State University’s Agricultural Science Center in Los Lunas has been researching crop varieties and native plant…
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Wednesday, November 1: Investing in New Mexico Plants — Building a seed bank at the ABQ BioPark
Clay Meredith, Species Survival Officer for Plants at the New Mexico BioPark Society will detail the BioPark’s efforts to collect and study seeds from under-conserved rare plants. This…
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Wednesday, November 8th at 6:30 P.M. – NM Native Plant Invasive in Israel – with Alicia Marmolejo
6:30 pm – Social half-hour with refreshments7:00 pm – Recognition of the recipients of the 2023 Las Cruces Native Plant Society NMSU student grants
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Saturday, December 2nd, 10:00 a.m. – Cactus Appreciation
Come celebrate Cactus Appreciation Month! There will be three presentations, with Steven Brack of Mesa Gardens, Martine Kristen & Julia Etter of the Autonomous Mexican…
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Saturday, November 4th at 10:00 a.m. — “If You Plant It, They Will Come: Meet the bees in your neighborhood and their favorite native plants!” by Oliver Neria
Location: Garden Center at Memorial Park A brief overview of the native bees of El Paso and their life histories, floral preferences, and nesting behaviors,…
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Sunday, December 10, 2023, Noon to 3:00 p.m. — Holiday Party Potluck
Gila Chapter members and friends will celebrate the holidays together with a potluck at the Women’s Club: 411 Silver Heights Blvd, just off Route 180.
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Friday, November 17, 2023, 7:00 p.m. — Presentation by John Gorey on his research into a new thistle in the high Mogollon Mountains
While surveying for invasive plants in 2022, John came across a strange thistle above 10,000 ft in the Mogollon Mountains. After passing on photos of the plants to New…
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Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:00 p.m. — Presentation by Mallory Davies on her nectarivorous bat research
Mallory Davies is a doctoral student at Colorado State University in the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology and has been studying the lesser long-nosed bats and their…
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