a. What makes us different from others? How can NS proceed with no buget? Can we work better as a sub committee of another group? Also #12
Request for a reteat for planning . Schedule July 13. 12:00pm-5:00pm

b. Tom President of CNPS-Yerba Buena Chapter requested info on our programs for the CNPS newsletter. MAPP - Native Plant presentations.
7. Director Reports:
a. Hillary: None
8. Treasure's Report: Geoff's check for $300.00 has not been deposited. CA we can deposit this next week.
Taxes are over due.
Treasurer will find intern or CPA to file taxes
We owe an additional $40.35 for penalties in tax year 2006
a. Funds: Wells Fargo Checking: $31 + $300.
b. Check and form sent to CA State has been sent . $20.00
d. Membership dues are needed before postcards are ordered.
9. Secretary report: None
10. Alemany Farm Update: starting repairs in soon. Need to coordinate volunteer schedule and propagation list by end of June. Ideas: Edible Native plants? Casey will work on list of g propagated and easy to grow SF plants. Greg Garr has offered seeds. Sales plan needed.ei
11. Job descriptions - President/Secretary/Director/Chairperson. Longer term: Develop volunteer coordinator position. Greenhouse manager/sales. Website Editor.
12. Membership or grants: Casey would like to persue aquiring grants
Hillary and Brett will help

13. Membership Meeting? - Last Wednesday of the month - Next slide show. Casey contacted the folks at Counterpulse and it costs $. Free sites? native spaces has been invited to speak at the harvest festival in october. We should do another presentation of endemic plants to S.F.
14. June 7th - Sat. night Native Plant presentation by Brett at Mapp party. Live Music.
15.Retreat scheduled July 13. 12:00-5:00pm at location decided upon later.
16. Postcard design ideas: approved postcard #1, for 1000 cards
Needs pictures for cards, everyone will send a picture to Geoff
17. Accept Greg Hayes resignation. - accepted, why is he is stiil on the web site as a board member.
18. New board members. Not right away but in a few months we should have one or two new board members.
19. Agenda for next meeting:
a. Removal of director Meachum next meeting -Meachum removed
b. Program Development: I - Board Meetings. II - Membership Meetings. III - Alemany Farm Greenhouse project. IV - Certification of gardeners.
c. Data base for members etc.
20. Adjourn 8:30

Time: 7:00PM
Place: San Francisco Landscapes Office, 256 Talbert st., SF, 94134

1. Roll Call: Hillary, Casey and Brett
2. Announcements: None
3. Approval of Minutes 3/12/08 -approved
4. Member Comments: NA
5. Chairperson Report: NA
6. Presidents Report: Work with other groups -Tom President of CNPS-Yerba Buena Chapter requested info on our programs for the CNPS newsletter. April 15 is the deadline for the CNPS newsletter. Brett will lead a Saturday - June 7 at MAPP - Native Plant presentation at a party with live music. Membership meeting - May 28 slide show, location & speaker to be announced on our web site.
7. Director Reports:
a. Hillary: None
8. Treasure's Report: Geoff's check for $300.00 has not been deposited. CA will deposit this next week.
a. Funds: Wells Fargo Checking: $61.18 + $300.
b. NS owes Casey for the food for the last membership meeting. Casey will donate food.($30.00 value)
c. Check and form sent to CA State will be sent 4/12/08. $20.00
d. Membership dues are needed before postcards are ordered.
9. Secretary report: None
10. Alemany Farm Update: starting repairs in April. Need to coordinate volunteer schedule and propagation list by end of April. Ideas: Edible Native plants? Casey will work on list of easily propagated and easy to grow SF plants. Greg Garr has offered seeds. Sales plan needed.
11. Job descriptions - President/Secretary/Director/Chairperson. Longer term: Develop volunteer coordinator position. Greenhouse manager/sales. Website Editor.
12. SF Native Garden Tour April 13. Brett and Casey will be hosting gardens @ 717 Lakeview Ave. & 1943 10th Ave.
13. May 28th - Membership Meeting - Last Wednesday of the month - Next slide show. Brett or Casey will contact the folks at Counterpulse for last the Wed. in May. Speaker?
14. June 7th - Sat. night Native Plant presentation by Brett at Mapp party. Live Music.
15. Casey led with help from Brett an Angel Island Bike Tour 4/6/08 - 18 People attended
16. Postcard design ideas: approved postcard #1, for 1000 cards
17. Accept Greg Hayes resignation. - accepted
18. New board members. Not right away but in a few months we should have one or two new board members.
19. Agenda for next meeting:
a. Removal of director Meachum next meeting
b. Program Development: I - Board Meetings. II - Membership Meetings. III - Alemany Farm Greenhouse project. IV - Certification of gardeners.
c. Data base for members etc.
20. Adjourn 8:00

NativeSpaces Director Casey Allen led a free tour of Angel island with the help of NS Director Brett Stephens. The group of about 20 people rode the easy loop around the island's perimeter road surveying native plants and talking about their use in the home garden and the built environment. The day started overcast and chilly with the Ferry boat trip from San Francisco to Angel Island. Great views of the Bay, the Golden Gate and Angel Island.

The group had a bite to eat in the Alaya Cove picnic area before heading up the bike trail to the perimeter road. The dirt fire road/bike trail cuts through a costal forest mix of native Coast Live Oaks - Quercus agrifolia, Toyon - Heteromeles californica, Buckeye - Aesculus californica, Madrone - Arbutus menziesii , and non-native to the island Monterey Pine - Pinus radiata, Monterey Cypress - Cupressus macrocarpa and Eucalyptus. Many shade loving native plants were on the side of the path such as: California Figwort - Scrophularia californica, Mission Bells - Fritillaria affinis var. affinis, Seaside Bitter-Cress - Cardamine angulata, Western Sword Fern - Polystichum minutum, Goldback Fern - Pentagramma triangularis, and vines in the tree, Honeysuckle - Lonicera and Poison Oak - Toxicdendron diversilobum .

1. Roll Call-Geoff,Casey, Brett
2. Announcements
3. Approved of Minutes 1/9/08
4. Member Comments
5. Chairperson’s report-
Geoff- we need more members, and more input from all, brainstorm soon for certification program, job descriptions for all director positions
6. Presidents Report-
7. Director Reports
8. Treasure's Report:
a. Funds: WellsFargo Checking: $54.18 plus $40.00 from
Brett deposited on 2/1/08 minus $33.00 for the IRS for
2006 = $61.18. Casey believes the WF savings account
is now closed and this will save on fees.
b. Casey Allen paid $103.39 for web hosting for one
year of service.
c. Brett Stephens donated $40 for his membership.
d. Geoff Coffey organized filing taxes with the Fed.
Check sent by Casey in the amount of $33.00 on
2/13/08.
e. Check and form sent to CA state were returned as a
new form for 2008 needs to be filled out. Geoff
provided the $20.00 check from his Madrono landscape
design account, check #1196.-returned (Native Spaces will pay)
f. Membership dues are needed.
9. Attendance requirements for board members. 4 times
absent from meetings or more requires approval of
Board. - all approved
10. Develop volunteer coordinator position/ job descriptions -carried to next board meeting
-Casey agrees to respond to new members via email
11. SF Native Garden Tour April 13. Gardens needed.
12. Slide shows. One per district, 11 total.
Geoff-have a seasonal sideshow (4)-to start
13. Next meeting: Membership, Wednesday 2/27/08.
14- Items for next meeting-10
and elections
Meeting adjourned 7:03

Time::6:45

1) GC CA BS

2)Announcements-

3) Approved Minutes

5)Chairpersons report

6)Directors Reports -work day for VV Green Way Project

7)Presidents Report

8)Treasure's Report - $62.00
Web site fees are due 1-31 Yearly
dues are due. Casey and Brett will pay $40.00 each

9)Meeting times

10)Casey has asked if we should hire a accountant

11)Reviewed bank account records of past year. Must find out when taxes are due.

12) Geoff has agreed to file taxes

12) Discuss missing minutes . Casey will look through his records and ask greg for his

13)Brett motioned to elect Hillary to the board.Approved

14)Proposal for next meeting: Attendance requirements for board members

15)Develop volunteer coordinator position

16)Minutes for 9/12 approved

17)Possible work meeting 1/16

Meet adjourned 8:07

No trail marked our route; we parked on a friend's private property and walked for a spell up an old fire road, then plunged into the underbrush. Directions? We just headed due west and uphill.

Veilleux waxed rhapsodic on the bay trees around us: those manifold shapes of trunk, that cool aroma on the breeze, and the lush color of the leaves when they catch the sun. "I think Umbellularia californica is the most versatile and under-used California native plant in the landscaping trade," he said. "Not in my yard," I replied. The mature bay reaches heights of 120 feet, and as wide. He allowed that regular pruning for size might be necessary.

Mixed among the mature bays all around us, oaks and madrones quivered in the wind, as if in awe of the bay's position as the climax forest community, ultimate dispatcher of other trees in the ecosystem's lifecycle.

"Look," said Veilleux, pointing. "It's a coffee fern! What a gorgeous Pellaea!"

I often see my name written in native plants, but rarely so explicitly.

True to its name, the leaves of monkey flower are "sticky". A resin on the underside of the leaves protects the plant from desiccation (drying out), and from hungry insects. In early spring, however, the plant is known to house the Chalcedon Checkerspot, a common butterfly that lays its eggs on the underside of the leaf so the larvae can feed on the leaf’s resin. Bees and hummingbirds also love this plant.

The leaves of Sticky Monkey Flower were commonly used by Native Americans to treat a variety of ailments. The Coast Miwok placed the crushed leaves on sores and burns, and the roots have been used to treat fever, dysentery, diarrhea and hemorrhages.

Present: Casey, Geoff.
6:50 Jesse
Prospective Member: Scott Simono and Kate Ming

1. Background of Native Spaces

2. Intros.

3. annoucements: Farm 27th &Critical Mass

4.Munites Moved

5. Greenhouse project: background info to new members. Timeline: March 2008 if grants are recived. Money will be avalible one way or another timeline may be affected.

Other Greenhouse locations: Brisbane possible location, Dan Alhouse

Look for other sites.

6. Strybing Plant ID walk thru with Don Mahoney, Jesse and Geoff will take place maybe this month.

7. Taxes need to be done> special meeting. Kate can help aswell as Geoff. October 31 3pm

8.Certification Program. CNPS will be doing a program sometime soon, research is needed.

9. Plant talks, start again. At Nurseries, gardens, schools, other sites, businesses. Timeline: Start Jan. 08.

10. Adjurn 8:15

Yerba Buena Nursery is an originating point of the California Native Plant Landscape Movement. Gerda Isenberg turned a portion of her family's 1900's cattle ranch into the state's first commercial native plant nursery in 1960, and eventually converted the ranch house into shop space and one of the pastures into a park-like demonstration garden.

The nursery covers some forty acres of the Santa Cruz Mountains, between Woodside and Half Moon Bay. Its 2.5 acre demonstration garden even has its own micro, micro-climates including a pond, for riparian plants, redwood grove and sunny hillside for chaparaal and grassland communities. It is an extremely valuable resource for native plant gardeners and people who want to learn more.

In traveling there, we move through the same micro-climates represented by the plants available. Past the ranches turned million dollar homes, winding up two lane roads into the coastal hills. The shade dapples in with the changes. Bright chaparaal becomes cool redwood forest. Sun-shafts pierce the calm understory. Then back on the open ridge again, blue sky, waves and wind...maybe some fog from the coast.