Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005, 7 p.m. Idaho Botanical Garden, Boise, Idaho Join us for free pizza and pops as we say goodbye to a scorcher of a summer and hello to Idaho Botanical Garden’s Lewis & Clark Native Plant Garden [2355 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise]. In the IBG’s oh-so-comfortable evening shade, we’ll hear Rod […]

May 12 & 19, Boise foothills: Catch the season’s two remaining “Celebrate Wildflowers” walks at 6:30 p.m. Meet at the Foothills Learning Center, 0.3 miles past the end of the 8th Street pavement in Boise (turn right into the parking area). After 1.5 to 2 hours (on moderately steep, well-maintained trails), you’ll “walk away” more […]

The Pahove Annual Earth Day Plant Sale was a total success. This 14 year old annual event provides most of the yearly funding for the local chapter. The sale, starting at 10 AM, was sold out by about 12 noon with only a few forbs left. Note: all plants offered for sale are from commercial […]

MK Nature Center Auditorium, Idaho Fish and Game 600 South Walnut Avenue (behind Fish and Game Headquarters) 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21, 2005 Urban Landscape Restoration Using Native Plants Steve Paulsen, restoration ecologist and Loasa Chapter president, tells why “water conservation the native way” is the byword of Conservation Seeding & Restoration, Inc. The 3-year-old […]

APRIL 23: Annual Native Plant Sale, MK Nature Center, Idaho Fish and Game, 600 South Walnut, Boise Forbs Antennaria microphylla (Small-leaved pussy-toes) Balsamorhiza sagittata (Arrowleaf balsamroot) Camassia quamash (Blue camas) Eriogonum heracleoides (Wyeth buckwheat) Eriogonum umbellatum (Sulfur buckwheat) Geum triflorum (Prairie smoke) Lewisii rediviva (Bitterroot) Mimulus lewisii (Lewis’ monkeyflower) Penstemon cyanueus (Blue penstemon) Penstemon eatonii […]

Idaho Native Plant Society, Pahove Chapter Smoky Mountain Pizza, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise 7:15 p.m. Tuesday, February 15, 2005 (Social at 5:30 p.m., Dinner at 6:00 p.m.) “Countering Misinformation Concerning Big Sagebrush” PRE-REGISTRATION IS ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY REQUIRED. Bruce Welch, a plant physiologist with the USDA Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Provo, Utah, […]

MK Nature Center Auditorium, Idaho Fish and Game 600 South Walnut Avenue (Behind Fish and Game Headquarters) Thursday January 20, 2005 — 7 p.m. The Black Pepper Family: Its Origins and Its Showy Ecological Associates Ah, the Mystery of it …Piperaceae, the black pepper family, is one of the world’s first lineages of flowering plants. […]

When: 7 P.M. OCTOBER 21, 2004 Where: Idaho Botanical Garden Tempted to try a more drought-tolerant turf? You’ll be coming to the right place October 21 when the members of our three-person panel describe their experiences with blue grama grass (Hilary Parkinson), buffalograss (Beth Workman), and sheep fescue (Chuck Blair). How did they establish their […]

October 21ST – 7PM, IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN DO TREAD ON ME: TEMPTING TURFS — Hilary Parkinson, BLM — Chuck Blair, CH2MHill — Beth Workman, Graphic Artist November 18TH – 7PM, IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN ROGER’S ALL-TIME FAVORITE LICHENS — Roger Rosentreter, BLM December 6TH – 6:30PM, LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED ANNUAL PAHOVE SEASONAL FESTIVITIES — Fun […]

The Pahove Chapter is sponsoring a field trip to explore the flora of Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument. There is an optional trip to Box Canyon State Park. See the flier for complete details (pdf format). DEPARTURE: 9:00 a.m., Saturday May 15, from MK Nature Center Parking Lot, 600 S. Walnut (on the south side […]