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THE LOCAL SCOOP - NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

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THE LOCAL SCOOP & NEWS & EVENTS ARCHIVE

May 2016 – News & Events
 * The Local Scoop is Back!
 * #WeAreSpring – “Native Plants in Our Gardens”
 * ScoopAssist/Photog Wins Photo Contest
 * Native Plant Species – Grow Local Plant Native! – Add your Voice
 * NANPS Extra Plant Sales
 * Excursion to Warsaw Caves Conservation Area, Peterborough County
 * Through the Garden Gate: The Kingsway, Toronto
 * High Park Stewards Native Plant Sale
 * Toronto Botanical Garden Spring Plant Sale
 * Let it Bee - Helping wild bees in the city
 * St. Williams Nursery Public Sale
 * Ontario Bioblitz - We are all Biodiversity

February 2015 – News & Events
 * The 2014-15 NANPS Seed Exchange
 * Using Native Plants for Landscaped Constructed Wetlands and Alternative Waste
   and Stormwater Treatment
 * Jump into Spring
 * Canada Blooms
 * Seedy Saturday (Toronto Central)
 * Reviving Rare Plants at The Riverwood Conservancy
 * Seedy Sunday (Toronto Central)
 * Scarborough Seedy Saturday
 * Flowers and Food: Growing Edible Native Plants
 * GoWild - GrowWild 2015 Expo
 * Healing Gardens Workshop
 * NANPS Native Plant Sale
 * Gardening for Pollinators
 * Why go Native in our Urban Forest?
 * Winter Tree ID Tour
 * 2015 Pollination Guelph Symposium
 * Garry Oak Preserve Restoration
 * Winter Weed ID
 * Pesticides, parasites and pollinators: the impacts of environmental stressors
   on bees

November 2014 – News & Events
 * NANPS Annual General Meeting and Fall Native Plant Rental Event
 * NANPS at EcoFair 2014
 * Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture Series
 * A Public Evening of Science and Stewardship on the Minesing Wetlands
 * Engaging In-Between Spaces - Toronto's First Summit on Laneways
 * Hess Lecture Weekend - Get Wild!
 * Fourth Annual Quimby F. Hess Lecture: The Importance of Insect Conservation
 * Liveable Cities: NYC-Toronto Growing Green

September 2014 – News & Events
 * NANPS Speaker Series - Conserving The Rich Flora Of Eastern North America by
   Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth
 * NANPS Events and Volunteer Opportunities
 * YIMBY Festival
 * David Suzuki Foundation Park Crawl
 * David Wychwood Barns EcoFair
 * NANPS Bookstore Coordinator
 * NANPS Membership Offer – hurry, it ends soon!
 * Survey Says!
 * Spare the ‘Rod & Spoil the Goldenrod

August 2014 – News & Events
 * Open Garden with Darcie McKelvey - Sunday September 7, 2014
 * The NANPS Awards: Nominate Someone Today!
 * Acorus Restoration Native Plant Nursery Sale
 * St. Williams Nursery & Ecology Centre's Fall Public Sale

May 2014 – News & Events
 * NANPS AGM May 10, 2014
 * The Scoop is Evolving
 * Evergreen Brick Works and Ravine Tour
 * NANPS at Native Plant Sale
 * Native Plants: Beautiful, Important, Threatened
 * Gardening: Planting the Right Seeds for Biodiversity - Speaker: Paul LaPorte
 * Doors Open Tour
 * Native Plants: Beautiful, Important, Threatened - Speaker: John Oyston
 * High Park Stewards Native Plant Sale
 * Ontario Nature Social Media Challenge
 * Maple Leaf Forever Tree Project

March 2014 – News & Events
 * Implications For Native Plants - Dawn Bazely
 * Ontario Place Park and Trail Meeting
 * Seedy Saturday/Sunday
 * Wildly interesting talks at Canada Blooms
 * Beaverton Historical Society AGM
 * OHA District 5 AGM – Natural Gardening – Back to Basics
 * Winter Tree Identification Tour
 * Botanical Artists of Canada 2014 Juried Exhibition (March 26 – April 6)
 * News Release – Ontario introduces the Invasive Species Act

February 2014 – News & Events
 * Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture Series
 * NANPS call for volunteers
 * Annual Horticultural Open House
 * Seedy Saturday/Sunday
 * Society for Conservation Biology, Toronto Chapter is looking for volunteers
   to help pin specimens
 * Macrophotography of Insects
 * Environmental Stewards in the Community
 * The push to get native plants in Ontario Place Park
 * Emerald Ash Borer - Ontario Rare Woody Plant Program at Guelph Arboretum
 * Acorus Restoration Native Plant Nursery and Blazingstar Learning Centre, in
   Walsingham is for sale
 * World Wetlands Day 2014
 * Minesing Wetlands is the largest intact wetland in southern Ontario
 * Petition to send Margaret Atwood back to school
 * Pickering Airport back on the radar

January 2014 – News & Events
 * Promoting Biodiversity in the Urban Landscape - Barbara Fallis Memorial
   Lecture - Speaker: Scott Torrance, Landscape Architect
 * Using Native Plants for LEED Buildings - Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture
 * The 2013-14 NANPS Seed Exchange
 * Nature: Winter Tree ID
 * Ontario Place Revitalization
 * Environmental Stewards - in the University
 * 33rd Annual Guelph Organic Conference & Expo - Catching the Wave
 * Why Gardens Matter
 * North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Update

December 2013 – News & Events
 * Give a thought... to Ontario Place Revitalization
 * Remember to become a member!

October 2013 – News & Events
 * Nanps Annual General Meeting and Fall Native Plant Rental Event
 * Seed Collecting at Oak Hills Farm - Sunday October 6th, 2013
 * Planting the Right Seeds for Biodiversity - Tuesday October 8th, 2013
 * Gardening: Creating a Prairie Garden - Tuesday October 22, 2013
 * Let's put Ontario back in Ontario Place!
 * Taking a LEAF from the Book of Biodiversity Tree Tour - Wednesday, Oct 9th,
   2013
 * Native Plants Presentation and Beach Garden Society October, 2013 General
   Meeting & Flower Show - Tuesday, October 15
 * Maple Leaf Forever Tree Tour - Saturday, October 26th, 2013
 * Plant Identification Workshop: Using Dichotomous Keys - Friday, November
   15th, 2013
 * Canadian Wildlife Magazine's Reflections of Nature Photo Contest

September 2013 – News & Events
 * Backus Woods, Shining Tree Woods & Acorus Restoration Nursery
 * Upcoming NANPS Event Dates to Consider
    * Gardening: Planting the Right Seeds for Biodiversity
    * NANPS AGM at Markham Civic Centre
    * Gardening: Creating a Prairie Garden

 * In Passing - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr.
   Jane Bowles on July 27th, 2013

June 2013 – News Events
 * Markham Civic Centre Pond Planting Part 2 - Saturday June 8th, 2013 10 a.m.
   to noon
 * NANPS infill project - What should the future of NANPS look like?
 * NANPS Award nominations - We offer awards in three categories
 * NANPS is no wallflower! - NANPS has ramped up the Social Media context
 * Going out in a Blaze of Glory! - The back issues of the Blazing Star
   newsletters from 2003 - 2011 (except one) have been planted on the NANPS web
   site
 * Cass Stabler comes on Board - new member to the Board, Cass is the
   Stewardship Coordinator for TRCA's Healthy Yards Program

May 2013 – News & Events
 * NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale
 * The NANPS 2013 Winter Photo Competition: Native Plants in Winter has now
   closed
 * It's Spring and Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests is LEAFing out
   with many activities
 * A green alternative to plant fibre pots!
 * Give a hoot for the North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance!
 * Bad Buckthorn
 * And something even scarier on the horizon - we can expect Lyme Disease to
   reach Toronto by 2020
 * NANPS Events
    * Mon. May 6 - Pollinator Gardens Galore Workshop – NANPS
    * Sat. May 11 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale & Fundraiser
    * Sat. May 18 - Spring Tours at TBG
    * Sat. June 1 - Markham-Unionville Greens AGM & Native Plant Exchange
    * Sat. June 8 - NANPS Markham Civic Centre Pond/Wildflower Planting

 * Other Events
    * TRCA Greening Your Garden Workshops Events in Markham
    * Opening of the Laura Secord Trail - Laura Secord Commemorative Walk

April 2013 – News & Events
 * NANPS Lecture - When Good Plants Go Wild with John Oyston, NANPS
   Vice-President
 * NANPS Newsworthies
    * NANPS online plant order sales
    * 2013 Winter Photo Competition - Native Plants in Winter
    * Back Issues of Blazing Star - PDFs now available!
    * NANPS updates lists of Native Plant Societies across North America
    * NANPS online bookstore

 * Other Bits
    * City of Toronto News Release - Green Roofs & Biodiversity
    * Save the North Gwillimbury Forest
    * Toronto Parks Plan 2013-2017

 * Events - NANPS, City of Markham and others
 * Events Events
    * Wed. April 17 - NANPS Lecture - When Good Plants Go Wild (John Oyston,
      NANPS Vice-President)
    * Sat. April 27 - Tours of TBG - NANPS Exclusive - The Invasives Tour
    * Tues. April 30 - April EnviroChats: Native Plant Gardens (Paul LaPorte,
      NANPS President)
    * Mon. May 6 - Pollinator Gardens Galore Workshop - NANPS
    * Sat. May 11 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale & Fundraiser
    * Sat. June 1 - Markham-Unionville Greens AGM & Native Plant Exchange
    * Sat. June 8 - NANPS Markham Civic Centre Pond/Wildflower Planting

 * City of Markham - TRCA and the Healthy Yards Program Events
    * Greening Your Garden Workshops
    * Sat. April 20 - Get Started!
    * Sat. May 4 - Creating a Beautiful Garden with Native Plants
    * Sat. May 25 - Creating Rain Gardens and Dry Riverbeds
    * Sat. June 15 - Rain Barrels

 * RBG Workshops - June through September
    * Wetland Graminoid Identification (grasses, sedges, rushes), June 20-21
    * Grass Identification Workshop, July 11-12
    * Fern and Allies Identification Workshop, July 25-26
    * Aster and Goldenrod Identification Workshop, September 12-13

 * Other Events/Workshops Including Plant Sales
    * Ontario Nature - Our Special Spaces 2013
    * April 12-14 - Green Living Show
    * April 18-20 - Urban Forests & Political Ecologies - Celebrating
      Transdisciplinarity Conference
    * Sat. April 20 - Pocket Tree Tour - Toronto
    * April 22 - Earth Day
    * May 4-12, 2013 - National Wildflower Week
    * Sat. - Sun. May 4 - 5 - St. Williams Nursery Spring Public Native Plant
      Sale
    * Sat. May 11 - Out of the Ashes Tree Tour: Lessons From the Emerald Ash
      Borer
    * Sunday May 12 - High Park Stewards Annual Plant Sale
    * May 22, 23, 25 & 29 - LEAF Tree Tenders Volunteer Training Toronto
    * June 8, 12 & 15 - LEAF Tree Tenders Volunteer Training York Region

March 2013 – News & Events
 * News
    * NANPS Plant Sale Pre-orders
    * Volunteer Opps
    * Passing of a Pioneer
    * NANPS enters Wiki
    * NANPS Director, John Oyston adds more letters to his name
    * ScoopAssist wins recognition
    * NANPS Photo contest
    * New director at Guelph Arboretum
    * The Roots of NANPS

 * Events
    * March 2 Seedy Saturday Vaughan
    * March 3 – 8 National Invasive Species Awareness Week
    * March 7 Green Roof Ecosystems: Designing green roofs with native plants:
      Mathis Natvik, MLA (see poster)
    * March 9 Seedy Saturday Brick Works 2013
    * March 10 Goodbye Standard Time, Hello Daylight Savings Time
    * March 15-24 (NANPS booth - March 20-24) Canada Blooms
    * March 16 Seedy Saturday – Scadding Court
    * March 28 Biodiversity in the City Workshop
    * March 28 Native Alternatives to Ornamental, Exotic Plants Talk
    * April 6 Pollination Guelph Pollination Symposium
    * April 10 Canadian Pollinator Conservation 2013: Next Steps
    * April 17 When Good Plants Go Wild: John Oyston, NANPS Director
    * April 27 Invasive and Native Plant Tours
    * Plant Identification Workshops at RBG this summer (June – September)

January 2013 – News & Events
 * Promoting Biodiversity in the Urban Landscape - Barbara Fallis Memorial
   Lecture - Speaker: Scott Torrance, Landscape Architect
 * Using Native Plants for LEED Buildings - Barbara Fallis Memorial Lecture
 * The 2013-14 NANPS Seed Exchange
 * Nature: Winter Tree ID
 * Ontario Place Revitalization
 * Environmental Stewards - in the University
 * 33rd Annual Guelph Organic Conference & Expo - Catching the Wave
 * Why Gardens Matter
 * North Gwillimbury Forest Alliance Update

December 2012 – The Local Scoop
 * Seasonal Greetings From The Local Scoop

November 2012 – News & Events
 * Alert - Natural Garden Exemption Bylaw Change Update Toronto City Council
   Meeting Tuesday November 27, 2012

October 2012 – News & Events
 * NANPS AGM - October 20, 2012, Reminder
 * The NANPS Garden / Restoration Award winners
 * The 2012 Paul McGaw Memorial Conservation Awards winners

September 2012 – News & Events
 * NANPS AGM - October 20, 2012, proposed Quorum change - looking for new board
   members
 * Markham Civic Centre Pond Planting - Saturday September 29, 2012
 * Calendar Events:
    * NANPS bus tour of Carolinian Woods of SW Ontario - Sept 22, 2012
    * Prairie Day II at Alderville Black Oak Savanna - Sept 23, 2012
    * 2012 Halton Forest Festival Ontario Forestry Association (OFA) tour of
      woodlots - Oct 13, 2012
    * Ontario Invasive Plant Council (OIPC) AGM & Invasive Plants Symposium -
      Oct. 16, 2012
    * 2012 Ontario Land Trust Alliance (OLTA) Conference - Oct. 17, 2012
    * NANPS AGM - Oct. 20, 2012
    * Society for Ecological Restoration (SERA) Ontario Chapter AGM - Oct.
      20-21, 2012

August 2012 – News & Events
 * North American Native Plant Society Fall Tour - Carolinian Woods of SW
   Ontario - Saturday Sept 22, 2012

May 2012 – News & Events
 * Shining Tree Woods Home of the Cucumber Tree Full Day Excursion 2012 -
   Saturday June 2, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
 * Suzuki Louv in - an evening with scientist and broadcaster David Suzuki and
   Richard Louv
 * Green Infrastructure Ontario Update - an update on recent initiatives,
   including the release of Health, Prosperity and Sustainability: The Case for
   Green Infrastructure in Ontario

May 2012 – The Local Scoop
 * National Wildflower Week May 7-13 & Nanps Annual Spring Plant Sale &
   Fundraiser
 * Don't you wish we could celebrate National Wildflower Week like the New
   Yorkers?
 * NANPSter wins award! - The Monitoring the Moraine (MTM) Partners, EcoSpark
   and STORM Coalition, announced the 2012 Moraine Heroes
 * Over 50 Organisations speak out against the gutting of environmental laws in
   Ontario's budget bill
 * Invasive bamboo unleashed on the unsuspecting public in the U.S. to
   devastating consequences! Do not be tempted to buy running bamboo,
   Phyllostachys spp.
 * Ontario Invasive Plant Council's Countdown Campaign: "Look before you leave"
 * Coming Soon - Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
    * May 26 - Waterloo-Wellington Wildflower Society Native Plant Sale
    * June 2 - NANPS all-day venture to Norfolk County
    * Sept. 22 - NANPS adventure to Backus Woods

 * Scoop Gets New Digs - The Local Scoop has been reseeded and has launched a
   new look and a new face

April 2012 – News & Events
 * NANPS near-Earth Day Experiences
    * First Garlic Mustard Pull of 2012 - Saturday April 21st, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
      Charlie Clifford Memorial Park Sprucewood Dr. (Bayview/Steeles Ave.,
      Markham)
    * Special Earth Day deadheading of advance plant orders for the Annual NANPS
      Spring Plant Sale - midnight of Sunday April 22nd.
    * Lots of other activities are happening in the local area - The Scoop
      calendar

 * NANPS post-Earth Day Experiences
    * Exclusive pre-excursion Biodiversity Workshop held in Scarborough on
      Saturday May 5th followed by a chartered coach bus trip to NANPS property,
      Shining Tree Woods in Norfolk Co.
    * June 2nd, replete with supper and a visit to a native plant nursery, St.
      Williams Nursery & Ecology Centre.
    * Please spend some time weeding out an invasive species or working on a
      restoration project in your area. For 2012, our goal is 400 of 2,012
      volunteer hours devoted to Shining Tree Woods.
    * Pledge financial support for each bag of garlic mustard removed. In 2011,
      45 bags of garlic mustard were removed from Shining Tree Woods.

 * The Bruce Duncan Memorial Lecture Series - Lorraine Johnson - NANPSter,
   Editor, Author, City Farmer, Lecturer at York University
 * NANPS Annual Plant Sale Updates
 * The Pollinator Plot
    * Are you a virtual, social butterfly milkweed?
    * Project Migration - Red Admiral butterflies - eButterfly is now live and
      ready to accept Canadian butterfly records.

 * Ants in your Plants? - Dr. Kirsten Prior, a post-doc in Dr. Frederickson's
   lab in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at U of T needs our
   help.
 * ALERT from Ontario Nature - Changes to the provincial Endangered Species Act

February 2012 – News & Events
 * Paul O'Hara - Go Native Now: Building Landscapes for Future Sustainability

December 2011 – The Local Scoop
 * Year End Stuffing – Green Giving - species at risk proposed Recovery Strategy
   - Cryptic Paw Lichen
 * Quick Calendar picks to wrap up the year - TV docs on TVO
 * Scoop’s New Year's Resolution

November 2011 – News & Events
 * Robert Bateman Night
 * City of Toronto seeks public input for a new five-year plan for parks, trails
   and natural areas
 * Shell Fuelling Change
 * It's all about the plants - Green Giving in so many ways through charitable
   donations
    * NANPS
    * The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC)
    * Ontario Nature - Malcolm Bluff Shores - Protect your share

October 2011 – News & Events
Foodstock and AGM Reminder
 * NANPS AGM & Plant Sale
 * NANPS Seed Exchange
 * Project Baseline - The U of T Koffler Scientific Reserve in King City will be
   the anchor location for the Canadian effort
    * Melancthon Mayhem
    * Escarpment Muse
    * The rain falls lamely on the Moraine – because it isn't protected!

 * Mail Melee

October 2011 – News & Events
 * NANPS AGM
 * Torontonians: Petition to save Environmental and Urban Agriculture Programs!
 * Ontarians: Stop the Mega Quarry in Melancthon Twp.
 * The Local Scoop has a bold new look, but everything is still there
 * Keswick Call for help

July 2011 – News & Events
 * Paul Heydon - Free Presentation: The Understory - The Forgotten Forest Layer
   with Understory Teller
 * An Overstory of Sorts - Mentor needed for butterfly garden in Keswick,
   Maskinonge River Recovery Project (MRRP)
 * Cedar Valley Park Pull 'n' Plant! Event - Friends of Cedar Valley community
   action group in Markham
 * All Stories can apply from across North America - NANPS "Plant of the Month"
   suggestions needed
    * July 1 - Native Acer Species Day
    * July 5 - Hunter's Point Wildlife Park Wildflower Planting, Richmond Hill
    * July 6 - The Understory - The Forgotten Forest Layer, Toronto
    * July 10 - Cedar Valley Park Pull 'n' Plant, Markham
    * July 31 - Nomination deadline for NANPS Garden/Restoration Awards
    * Sept 1 - Nomination deadline for NANPS Volunteer of the Year Award
    * Sept 24 - NANPS Tour of Markham
    * Oct 22 - NANPS AGM

May 2011 – News & Events
 * NANPS Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser
 * Free presentations
    * Vicki Beard - Making it Work. How to Create Pollinator Habitat in Your
      City
    * Colleen Cirillo - Invasive Garden Plants

 * On the Mark - Mark Cullen includes NANPS in his column in the Toronto Star on
   April 30th
 * NANPS Weekender Weedender Bender at Shining Tree Woods, May 13-15th
 * Another Greenspace still threatened - Friends of the Concord West Greenspace
 * These dates are closer than they appear
    * May 5 - RBG Auxiliary Plant Sale
    * May 6 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale set-up
    * May 7 - NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale in Markham
    * May 8 - The High Park Community Advisory Council Plant Sale
    * May 11-15 - TBG's Annual Plant Sale
    * May 13-15 - NANPS 1st Weekend Weedend at Shining Tree Woods
    * May 29 - NANPS at the 13th Annual Richmond Hill Mill Pond Splash
    * June 3 - 5th Annual Carden Nature Festival
    * June 4 - NANPS at Connecting People with Plants, Humber College

mid-April 2011 – News & Events
 * Scoop Art "The annual dead heading of (plant sale) advance orders"
 * NANPS Plant Sale News
 * These dates are closer than they appear
    * April 15-17 – Green Living Show, Toronto
    * April 16 – Walk on the Wild Side, Pickering
    * April 17 – 1st Seedy Sunday in York Region, Aurora
    * April 18 – Free Workshop - Your Green Yard, Brampton
    * April 22 – EARTH DAY
    * April 22 – Life in the City - A Nature Walk in the Heart of Toronto, ROM
    * April 23 – Workshop - Photography in the wild, King Cit
    * April 26-27 – Conference - Soils and Urban Trees, TBG
    * April 26 – Wildflowers: Bringing Beauty and Biodiversity into the Garden,
      TBG
    * April 27 – Thickson's Woods Walk, Pickering
    * April 27 – Solutions from the Underground: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the
      World
    * April 30 – One Day Tree Seedling Sale, Dufferin County
    * April 30 – The Weird but Wonderful World of Insects, TBG
    * April 30 – Seedy Saturday at Everdale, Hillsburgh
    * April 30 – A Taste of RBG - Serving Up Our Gardens, RBG

April 2011 – News & Events
 * NANPS Speakers' Series - Martin Galloway - Native Plants in our Day to Day
   Lives. Changing the Culture
 * NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale Online Pre-ordering Update
 * NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale – May 7th
 * Save the Plants, Save the World ... by May 22nd
 * These dates are closer than they appear
    * April 1 – Life on the edge: the impacts of global warming on range limits
      (plant ecology) at U of T
    * April 2 – Learning to Live with the River: Our River Our Health, Guelph
    * April 5 – Lecture – Going Green in the Garden: Sustainable Strategies for
      Ontario Home Landscapes at U of Guelph
    * April 6 – Transformations: Parking Lots, Plants and Paradise, R.H.
      Adrienne Clarkson at the TBG
    * April 8 – Urban Wildlife Habitat Gardening workshop at Guelph Arboretum
    * April 8 – Bringing Nature Home with Doug Tallamy at the ROM

March 2011 – The Local Scoop
 * NANPS Speakers' Series - by Mark Carabetta - Unique Plants of the Malcolm
   Bluff Shores, Niagara Escarpment
 * On The Scoop Front - Scoop calendar launched
 * Canada Blooms is coming up soon - volunteers needed
 * NANPS Spring Plant Sale Coming Soon
 * A Treebuncle Dropped From The Heavens
 * Wayward Shoots
    * Alert Ontario Nature - Send in your comments
    * Calling All Groups - NANPS will be sending the 25th Anniversary
    * Mary Lake Update
    * Only in the U.S. you say – pity! Interactive USDA Hardiness Zone Map
    * NEW! Draft Habitat Regulations
    * Send them up the creek…without a paddle! - licensing non-profit groups
      using water craft such as canoes and kayaks

February 2011 – News & Events
 * Reminder - Speakers' Series Event Tomorrow!
    * Sean Fox - Rare Native Woody Plants of Ontario
    * Mark Carabeta - Unique Native Plants of the Malcolm Bluff Shores, Niagara
      Escarpment
    * Martin Galloway - Native Plants in our Day to Day Lives. Changing the
      Culture.

 * Canada Blooms - MARCH 16-20
 * Save Mary Lake
 * February Events, Seminars, Courses, Workshops
    * Walking Tour: Winter Tree Identification Toronto Urban Forestry
    * Distribution and ecosystem effects of earthworms in a Central Ontario
      forest – are invasive earthworms a threat?
    * Urban Environments: People, Plants, and Pollution Will Wilson, Duke
      University
    * Toronto Botanical Garden's Annual Horticultural Open House Spring into
      action and join NANPS for the event
    * Edwards Lecture Series: Romance with Trees Wayne Grady and Merilyn Simonds
    * Pollination Guelph Annual Symposium
    * Stewardship Forum 2011 This year's theme is "Reflections on the Year of
      Biodiversity”
    * Sean Fox - Lecture - Elm Recovery Project

January 2011 – News & Events
 * NANPS Speaker's Series
    * Sean Fox - Rare Native Woody Plants of Ontario
    * Mark Carabeta - Unique Native Plants of the Malcolm Bluff Shores, Niagara
      Escarpment
    * Martin Galloway - Native Plants in our Day to Day Lives. Changing the
      Culture.
    * Also in the pipevine:
       * Northumberland Land Trust Lecture Series – "Rice Lake Plains Joint
         Initiative"
       * Edwards Lecture Series: "When Native Plants Are Not the Answer"
       * Official Launch of "The International Year of Forests 2011"
       * Get the Jump on Spring
       * Edwards Lecture Series: "Romance with Trees"
       * "Elm Recovery Project"
       * Edwards Lecture Series: "Transformations: Parking Lots, Plants and
         Paradise."
       * "Bringing Nature Home" - ROM Auditorium
   
    * NANPS Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser
    * New Service for speakers and gardening groups - Great Garden Speakers
    * For the artistically inclined:

 * Botanical Art with Coloured Pencils
 * Botanical Art 101

November 2010 – The Local Scoop – Mini Scoop
 * Conifers: Terrific Non-Seasonal Plants with James E. Eckenwalder (U of T)
 * NANPS Project ...We would like to compile a "Do NOT Buy" list of potentially
   invasive species
 * The high winds that beset Toronto the night before the NANPS Prairie tour
   took its toll (on the Scoop's car)
 * Scoop Art: The high winds that beset Toronto the night before the NANPS
   Prairie tour took its toll
 * The Scoop Goes Down Under

October 2010 – The Local Scoop – Mini Scoop
 * Seed Collection Workshop this Saturday in the lovely Rouge Valley, amid the
   splendour of fall colours
 * Native Seed Collection Workshop/Certificate
 * Fall 2010 Edwards Lectures Series - Toronto Botanical Garden
 * Botanical Artists of Canada Second Annual Art Exhibition
 * Scoop Art: "Performance Anxiety"

September 2010 – News & Events
Fall For NANPS Events - Not The Local Scoop - Just a blast!
 * NANPS Northumberland County Fall Prairie Tour Saturday September 25th, 2010
 * Only Two More Weeks To ... NANPS AGM & Fall plant sale
 * Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bridget Stutchbury, author of The Silence of the
   Songbirds & The Bird Detective
 * NANPS October Events
    * Native Seed Collection Workshop
    * Bringing Nature Home with Douglas Tallamy
    * "When Native Plants Are Not the Answer" with Belinda Gallagher from the
      RBG
    * Coming soon ... Shining Tree Woods - garlic mustard/tree survey in late
      October - mid November

 * Other Events, courses, and workshops
    * Ajax in Bloom Awards Presentation Speaker: Christina Sharma - Founder and
      Director of Project CHIRP!
    * For the Fungi at heart ... Wild Mushrooms in Not-So-Wild Places with
      Richard Aaron
    * LEAF - Quick & Easy Tree I.D.
    * Walk and Talk about Using Native Plants with Liz Hood
    * Songbirds and Migration: Making the Connection
    * Mushrooms on the Moraine
    * Finding the Forest for the Trees
    * Bringing Birds to your Urban Oasis
    * Conifers: Terrific Non-Seasonal Plants with James E. Eckenwalder (U of T)

July 2010 – The Local Scoop – Mid-Summer Scoop
 * NANPS Northumberland County Fall Prairie Tour - no tall tales but a lot of
   tall grass and "weeds"
 * NANPS Awards - get your nominations in!
 * 404 Plant Rescue - The Scoop thanks the Scoopers
 * Events, Workshops and Courses - dig in!
 * Scoop summer reading - A Natural Selection
 * Scoopologically Speaking

July 2010 – News & Events
Fall For NANPS Events - Not The Local Scoop - Just a blast!
 * Native plants in danger - rescue mounted for this Sunday - get your scoops
   out!

May 2010 – The Local Scoop
NANPS Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser
 * Markham Civic Centre 101 Town Centre Boulevard - Saturday, May 8, 2010 - 10
   a.m. – 3 p.m.
 * Events
    * NANPS: Volunteer for restoration activities
       * Charlie Clifford Park/Grandview Park restoration days - Saturday, May
         15
       * Shining Tree Woods Join us for a look at spring wildflowers and a
         garlic mustard pull - Saturday, May 22
   
    * High Park VSP Native Plant Sale - May 9 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the
      Greenhouses
    * LEAF's 6th Annual Leslieville Tree Festival - Saturday, May 15 from 12-4
      p.m.
    * LEAF's Fourth Annual Celebration - June 11 from 7-10 p.m. at the Artscape
      Wychwood Barns
    * Nature Walks and Workshops - Koffler Scientific Reserve at Jokers Hill
    * Botanical Art Courses - Art 101: June 21-25 - Art with Coloured Pencils:
      July 5-9 - Watercolour Technique: July 12-16

mid-April 2010 – The Local Scoop
NANPS Plant sale pre-orders online and last Speakers' Series presentation
 * NANPS Plant Sale Advanced Online Ordering Now!
 * Don't Forget - Last Presentation of The Season - "Rare Native Plant Gems" or
   Species at Risk by Jane Bowles
 * It's Practically Here! NANPS Annual Plant Sale
 * Enjoy free presentations:
    * 11:30 a.m. - Rachel Gagnon: Identifying and Controlling Invasive Plants
    * 12:30 p.m. - Gavin Trevelyan: Prairie Plants for Your Garden

 * On hand will be two Master Gardeners, plus Paul Heydon and Ashley Baron
   (Native Plant Source) to field question
 * And if you miss out on the NANPS plant sale... High Park VSP Native Plant
   Sale

April 2010 – The Local Scoop – Big Bad Bylaws Issue
"Where irreverence is as common as goldenrod" (...as long as it isn't cut down)
 * What's in this Scoop? - We unearth every Gardener's threat
 * Welcome to The Age of Enheightenment
 * Tall Grass & Weeds: One of Toronto's Most Threatened Habitats
 * Natural Garden Exemption: I did it my way…
 * When is a hedge or shrub a fence? When the City of Toronto says so!
 * There's a bustle in your hedgerow...and you should be alarmed now
 * Goldenrod – Declared "Weed of The Year" by The Local Scoop
 * The City is out of whack and run by Weed Whackers
 * The City needs some strong medicine to get better. Could this be the cure or
   should the City seek a second opinion?
 * The Scoop has some predictions if the City of Toronto keeps sliding down the
   slippery slope of status quo
 * Scoop Snippet - Mon cherie - Frost damaged or broken branches of chokecherry
   release cyanide
 * Battle of the Weeds to hit the screen
 * NANPS Calendar of Events
   * Dan Bissonnette Naturalized Landscape Design Workshop - Saturday, April 10
   * Volunteers Needed For Invasive Species Control
     * Shining Tree woods - next excursion Saturday, April 17th
     * Charlie Clifford Memorial Park/Grandview Park - starting Saturday, May
       15th
 * Last Chance To Order Plants Before The Sale: April 18th

February 16, 2010 – News & Events
NANPS Call For Volunteers
 * Call out for Volunteers
    * Speakers' Series: Toronto Botanical Gardens (TBG)
    * Getting a Jump on Spring
    * Wychwood Barns, Seedy 'Saturday'
    * Canada Blooms

February 13, 2010 – News & Events
NANPS Speakers' Series reminder
 * Janine McLeod - "Tallgrass Prairie: One of Canada's Most Threatened Native
   Habitats - the Alderville Savanna"
 * NANPS Calendar of Events
    * Getting the Jump on Spring (TBG)
    * Seedy Sunday (Wychwood Barns)
    * Canada Blooms
    * Shining Tree Woods Working Excursion

 * Coming Very Soon - Online ordering for the NANPS Annual Plant Sale and the
   next edition of The Local Scoop
 * NANPS Calendar of Events

January 15, 2010 – News & Events
NANPS calendar of events and a need to plant volunteers
 * NANPS January To March Volunteers Needed
    * Speakers' Series: Allies in Protecting the Environment: First Nations and
      the Land
    * NANPS at Curran Hall Community's Winterfest
    * Guelph Organic Conference
    * Seedy Saturday Pickering
    * Speakers' Series: Tallgrass Prairie: One of Canada's Most Threatened
      Native Habitats - the Alderville Savanna
    * NANPS at Getting the Jump on Spring
    * Seedy 'Saturday' Toronto
    * NANPS Booth at Canada Blooms
    * Shining Tree Woods Working Excursion (invasive plant removal)

January 11, 2010 – News & Events
Gardens under attack council meetings tomorrow please send email/fax support
letters
 * To All Gardeners Or Friends Of Gardens - two deputations from NANPS members
   are to be heard on the same day
 * Doug Smith - 156 Wincott Drive Hedge Issue
 * Diane Way - 144 Manor Road East Natural Garden Issue

January 6, 2010 – News & Events
North American Native Plant Society Speakers' Series 2010
 * Paul General - NANPS Speakers' Series - "Allies in Protecting the
   Environment: First Nations and the Land"
 * Coming Soon:
    * Janine McLeod - "Tallgrass Prairie: One of Canada's Most Threatened Native
      Habitats - the Alderville Savanna"
    * Jane Bowles - "Rare Native Plant Gems or Species at Risk"

December 2009 – The Local Scoop
Where life is Celastrus
 * Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! Happy Holidays or Festivus for the rest
   of us!
 * Ghosts from the Past
 * Ghosts from The Present
 * Ghosts from The Future
 * E-FLASH: - Diane Way - turned down for an application under the native plant
   garden exemption
 * PARTING SHOOTS IN THE PIPEVINE
    * Town of Markham has granted NANPS funding for an Invasive Species
      Awareness Program
    * LEED for Weeds: New Program Will Rate Green Landscapes

October 2009 – The Local Scoop
SCARY Scoop! - The Hallowe'ed Edition
 * Happy Harvest & Hallowmas!
 * The Age of Entitlement
 * Victory Garden – a little justiceweed (Eupatorium leucolepis) for all
 * Case battle Part 1: NANPS vs Scotts
 * Case battle Part 2: The Rebuttal
 * Hallowe'ed Costumes
 * Parting Shoots - SEED EX, Plantopsy of the AGM, 25th Anniversary, etc.
 * Compost Square - definitely something different cooking in the composter!

September 2009 – The Local Scoop
NANPS Annual General Meeting 2009
 * HP Volunteer Stewardship Program Planting - Saucy High Jinks Grenadier Café,
   High Park, Toronto
 * 2009 Healthy Landscape Community Garden Tour - Sunday, September 20
 * NANPS Fall Restoration Event - Charlie Clifford Memorial Park, Thornhill
 * Project CHIRP! Educational Songbird Garden Tour
 * U of T Nature Walk - Koffler Scientific Reserve, Joker's Hill, Aurora - Trees
   and Fungi: Friends or Foes?
 * Miraculous Migrants: Why Songbird Conservation Begins at Home! - Presentation
   at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
 * Carolinian Canada Coalition Forum 2009 - Caring for Our Coast: Point Pelee
   National Park
 * Scoop Summer Synopsis - When it rains, it pours. From aphid rain to acorn
   showers - what a summer we had!
 * Parting Shoot - Chalk up another reason to love our native species

July 2009 – The Local Scoop – Summer Fixin’s Issue
Call To Action: Garlic Mustard Pull And Periwinkle Smother - Charlie Clifford
Memorial Park 2
 * Can't think of anything to do this summer? Don't get your knickers in a
   knotwood! Come out and pull for a good cause.
 * Reminder: Annual Awards, deadline looming - NANPS Native Plant
   Garden/Restoration Award
 * Nature Walk: Bugs by the Bushel: The Diversity of Insects Around Us
 * Early Fall - A NANPS excursion
 * NANPS AGM (Annual General Meeting) - Markham Civic Centre
 * Nature Walk: Trees and Fungi: Friends or Foes?

June 2009 – The Local Scoop – Dip into summer issue
On the menu in this issue of The Scoop are a number of tasty offerings
 * Project Chirp Spring Songbird Garden Tour - Saturday, June 13
 * Waterloo-Wellington Wildflower Society Annual Plant Sale in Guelph -
   Saturday, June 13
 * Acorus Talk in Walsingham: Beginners Plant Identification with Paul Morris -
   Saturday, June 13
 * Charlie Clifford Memorial Park - Thornhill - Sunday, June 14
 * Leslieville Tree Festival - Leslie Grove Park - Saturday, June 20
 * Markham Green Neighbourhoods workshop: Designing Beautiful Gardens with
   Native Plants - Tuesday, June 23
 * Tour of Pomona Mills Park & Ukrainian Church Dinner - Thornhill - Thursday,
   June 25
 * Summer intensive botanical art courses at Swansea Town Hall with the Chair of
   the Botanical Artists of Canada

May 2009 – The Local Scoop – A JEWEL OF A SALE
 * NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale Extravaganza Next Saturday - May 9th
 * The Local Scoop Contest Winners
 * NANPS Member Service Health Announcement - choosing plants for infill
   projects for your particular garden conditions
 * Lost but Found - Aethusa cynapium, an introduced species
 * Truth in Advertising? - Scotts Canada roundup ad
 * In Passing - Professor Fred Urquhart
 * Dates on Tap - Lorraine Johnson, The Natural Treasures of Carolinian Canada,
   May 3rd - NANPS Plant Sale, May 9th

April 2009 – The Local Scoop – News for the botanically bent


FIRST EMAIL

 * NANPS Speaker Series - Todd Irvine - Last one of the series! Native Trees of
   Southern Ontario
 * It's All about the Earth/terroir - this Weekend - Earth Hour Saturday March
   28, 2009
 * Downsview Park's Annual Earth Day Festival - Sunday, April 26, 2009
 * Toronto Field Naturalists Natural History Multimedia Lectures - The Natural
   Treasures of Carolinian Canada - Sunday May 3, 2009
 * NANPS Annual Spring Plant Sale Extravaganza Saturday, May 9th
 * The Local Scoop 1st Anniversary Contest for Members Only!
 * Memories of NANPS - 25th Anniversary is approaching
 * Reward Offered - The Paul McGaw Memorial Conservation Award - Native Plant
   Garden/Restoration Award


REMINDER EMAIL

 * The Natural Order - advanced order deadline is this Sunday, April 19
 * Scoop Contest - Win a Plant or Two
 * NANPS Annual Plant Sale Saturday, MAY 9th Markham Civic Centre
 * Taxus canadensis - perennials, trees and shrubs are eligible for a tax credit
 * A Licence to Buy - NANPS will be issuing tax receipts for the HRTC at the
   Plant Sale
 * More Dirt - Return to Sender - Post Office Hijinx
 * Home, Home on the Range - management planning process for the Holland Landing
   Prairie Provincial Nature Reserve
 * Dates on Tap - Earth Day - Annual Earth Day Festival - TFN lecture

March 2009 – The Local Scoop – St. Patrick’s Green Growers’ Edition
 * Dr. Nina Katalin Barabas -Echinacea and Beyond
 * Todd Irvine - Native Trees of Southern Ontario - previous speaker Ken Parker
   cancelled - replaced by Dr. Nina K. O'Barabas
 * NANPS Health Service Announcement - Botanical Art 101 & Botanical Art with
   Coloured Pencils at Swansea Town Hall

February 2009 – The Local Scoop
 * NANPS Speaker Series - Dr. Laurence Packer - The Importance of Bees
 * Denis Flanagan & Charles Kinsley - Coming next month! Gardening Trends
 * ENEWS ALERT NANPS is exhibiting at the Guelph Organic Conference January 24 -
   25

January 2009 – The Local Scoop
 * NANPS Speakers Series - Martin Galloway - The Secret Life of Plants
 * Dr. Laurence Packer - The Importance of Bees
 * NANPS Year End Stuff

December 2008 – The Local Scoop
 * NANPS Speaker Series - Martin Galloway - The Secret Life of Plants
 * Dr. Laurence Packer - The Importance of Bees
 * NANPS Year End Stuff

November 2008 – The Local Scoop
 * NANPS Speaker Series - Paul Heydon & Gavin Miller -Invasive Species of the
   Toronto Area

October 2008 – The Local Scoop
 * NANPS Annual General Meeting Agenda at Toronto Botanical Gardens - First
   email and Reminder

September 2008 – The Local Scoop
Events, Excursion & AGM - September 2008
 * Excursion to Arthur Langford Nature Reserve, Jackson Gunn Old Growth Forest &
   Restoration Site
 * NANPS Annual General Meeting, Toronto Botanical Gardens (formerly known as
   Edwards Gardens)
 * NANPS Speakers Series - Toronto Botanical Gardens
    * Paul Heydon & Gavin Miller - Invasive species of the Toronto area - What
      and where they are and how we can prevent their spread.
    * Martin Galloway - Secret Life of Plants - what goes on in gardens beyond
      the naked eye.
    * Denis Flannigan & Charles Kinsley - Gardening Trends over the past 200
      years, their influences and how they are in the midst of change today.
    * GREEN Gardening
      Ken Parker - A Joint Venture with Nature. Learn how to incorporate native
      species in the home landscape from a leading industry expert.
    * Todd Irvine - Native Trees of Southern Ontario - helpful tree
      identification tips, basic tree physiology, and some personal anecdotes.

May 2008 – The Local Scoop
 * May 3
    * Wild Things with Wings at the Brick Works
    * Workshops by NANPS Darcie McKelvey
       * Using native plants to attract bees
       * Native plant seed starting

 * May 4
    * NANPS Plant Rescue Alert! 16th Ave. and Hwy 404
    * High Park Community Advisory Council - Volunteer Stewardship Program (VSP)
      Native Plant Sale

 * May 10
    * NANPS & The Most Amazing Plant Sale Ever! Markham Civic Centre - be there!

 * May 11
    * Lorraine Johnson presentation

 * June 6 - 8
    * Carden Nature Festival joins with Ontario Nature AGM

April 2008 – The Local Scoop
NANPS Plant Sale and Expo - May 10 2008
 * members version
 * non-members version
 * 10 Reasons why you need to attend the NANPS Plant Sale

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