Volume 5, Number 3 e Turk's Ca> The newsletter of the dela ware na tlve plant Society Autumn 2002 In This Issue A Call For Articles Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 A Call for Articles New Members Letter From the President Letter From the Editor Plant-animal Highlight Feature Article Letter From the President continued Feature Article continued Native Plant Highlight Natural Plant Highlight continued Natural Community Highlight Event Highlights Resources and Reviews Native Plant Sale Announcement Page 6 Page 7 " Upcoming Events o o o o o How Can I Get Involved? If you would like to write an article for The Turk’s Cap, we would love to print it. With like minded individuals as an audience. The Turk’s Cap is a great venue for plant or habitat oriented writings. We’ll take just about anything from gardening tips to book reviews to poetry. Of course, it has to be about native plants, or issues related to native plants; just a minor constraint. Your imagination is the real key. Contact Eric Zuelke for more information at (ezuelke@juno.com), or Keith Clancy at 302.674.5187. A Warm Suce of Pumpkin Pie Welcome To Our Newest Members July through September Leo Brady Sandra Dennison-James Keith Fitzgerald Dale Hendricks/North Creek Nurseries, Inc. Terrance Higgins Gina Mullen Sara Romano Debbie Soja Regina Toy The Delaware Native Plant Society is open to everyone ranging from the novice gardener to the professional botanist. One of the primary goals of the society is to involve as many individuals as pos- sible. The DNPS is working on some significant projects at this time. We have begun a reforestation project at Prime Hook State Wildlife Area and will doing direct-seeding reforestation projects along Blackbird and Cedar Creeks, originally scheduled for 2002, but now postponed until 2003. In addition, help is needed with our native plant nurseiy at the St. Jones Reserve, near Dover. We encourage you to participate in these, and other DNPS endeavors. For more information on how to get in- volved, E-mail us at dnps@delawarenativeplants.org. Or visit the new DNPS website at www.delawarenativeplants.org. Our website will have all of the past issues of The Turk’s Cap along with a large section on native plants, as well as links to other environmental and Letter From The President Oh where, oh where did the summer go? I blinked and it was gone. Now, we are in the midst of the usually colorful and always cooler days of autumn. However, this fall colors look like they will be less spectacular and more muted than usual; possibly due to the ongoing drought. Also, because of the drought our direct-seeding reforestation pro- jects planned for September and October have been postponed until the fall of 2003. Forest stands, near the Blackbird and Cedar Creek reforestation sites, were surveyed in late August. The surveys were not very promising, as lots of aborted or empty acorns and hickory nuts were observed on the ground and very little seen on the trees. We were able to obtain an extension on our grant because of this situation, and hopefully, the fall of 2003 will Continued on page 3 The DNPS Vision T he purpose of the Delaware Native Plant Society (DNPS) is to participate in and encourage the preservation, conservation, restoration, and propagation of Delaware’s native plants and plant communities. The Society provides information to government officials, business people, educators, and the general public on the protection, management, and restoration of native plant ecosystems. The DNPS encourages the use of native plants in the landscape by homeowners, businesses, and local and state governments through an on-going distribution of information and knowledge by various means that includes periodic publications, symposia, conferences, workshops, field trips, and a growing statewide membership organized by the DNPS. The Turk's Qp , Volume 5, Number 3 Letter From The Editor The Alaska-Delaware connection Hello all. I hope everyone has had a super summer. Mine was hot. but I got to escape the heat for awhile as I had the fantastic opportunity this past August to visit Alaska for 8 days, specifically Denali National Park, and was it great! I saw some incredible sights; Grizzly bear. Caribou, Dali sheep, a wolf, a wolverine, 8 new species of birds for my life list, the 20,320 foot Mt. McKinley (the tallest point in North America), glaciers and an ice cave. But some of the most intriguing sights were the plants. In fact, I was so in awe by the similarity of certain plants in Alaska to those of Delaware that I decided to design this issue of The Turk’s Cap with an Alaskan theme. Much of Alaska is considered arid in terms of annual precipitation levels and soil characteristics, so certain plants that grow on our Delaware beaches and dunes have something in common with their Alaskan brethren. And believe it or not, Delaware and Alaska are in the same Holistic region because of evolutionary, climatologic and geologic forces, as our Feature Article illustrates. Our Native Plant Highlight is about Arcto- staphylos uva-ursi (bearberry) of which we only know of one population here in Delaware, but was plentiful on the open tun- dra of Alaska. And the Natural Community Highlight presents cranberry swale habitats, which occur in similar dune habitat as bearberry here in Delaware, and is a very common community on the Alaskan tundra. If you ever get the chance to go to Alaska, do it, regardless of time or money. It’s a beautiful place, and the opportunities for adventure are limitless. 0000 Eric Zuelke, Editor o o o o o o Plant-animal Highlight The big and little of Alaska What do blueberries, mosquitoes and grizzly bears have in common? That may sound like the start of a joke, but in Alaska it’s serious business. It turns out that one of the largest mam- mals in North America is dependent on one of the smallest insects for its survival. About the time August rolls around in Alaska, the Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis ) are getting ready for winter by consuming as much food as possible on a daily basis to build up insulating layers of fat on their muscle to help them survive then semi-hibernation during the six to eight months of winter snow and ice. And one of the primary food sources on their list is blueberries ( Vaccinium spp.). Though most of us think of mosquitoes as vicious predators out for blood, they are important pollinators as well. Male mosquitoes drink only sugary fluids such as flower nectar. Since they vigor- ously probe the flowers of certain plants, and can distinguish between different types of sugars, they play an important role in the pollination of certain plants. Female mosquitoes also drink sugary fluids, but will normally require the nutrients and protein of a blood meal to help the maturation of eggs they will later lay in stagnant water sources. Blueberries have entomophilous (insect loving) flow- ers and though they are primarily pollinated by bees and black flies, the morphology of blueberry flowers is one factor that makes them attractive to mosquitoes as well. They have fused petals that are only open at the end, the nectaries are at the base Psge 2 of the ovary and are very fragrant so they attract the insect deep into the flower, the pollen is heavy, sticky, and not wind blown, the stamens are shorter than the style so pollen cannot fall onto the stigma, and the style is flanged to prevent self pollination. These characteristics of the flower also make it hold heat and the mosquitoes use them as a heat source too while inadvertent- ly pollinating them. Mosquitoes are one of the least liked insects, but their role in blueberry pollination, makes them a significant part of the life cycle of this plant, and a noteworthy player in the survival of the Alaskan grizzly bear. 0000 Eric Zuelke, Editor o o o o o o Feature Article Phytgeography Plant biogeography-or phytogeography- is a science that seeks to establish patterns of order to the tremendous diver- sity of global plant life and attempts to explain why certain spe- cies occur in one geographical area but not another. One of the most basic concepts of this discipline is focusing attention to the hierarchy of the assemblages of organ- isms. This hierarchy begins with the massive scale of the bio- sphere (the complete worldwide environment of the planet). As you descend the hierarchy of assemblages, you encounter bi- omes first (the broadest subdivision of the biosphere: an assem- blage and association of plants and animals, with some exam- ples of major biomes being: forest, grassland, desert, tundra, etc.). Next are ecosystems, then communities, habitats, micro- habitats, populations, and finally the individual organisms themselves. Another basic concept to this hierarchy of organization and the overall geographic distributions of plants is that it is wholly defined by different aspects of time. Prehistoric, present moment, and future time frames have all played, currently play, or will play a role in phytogeographic distributions. It is agreed among many scientists that the earth has experienced several major phases of rapid environmental change, and the period that affects us most directly now is traced back to the Creta- ceous period. At this time, land masses were uniform in eleva- tion and climate was less varied than today. This allowed for the unchecked spread of organisms throughout the continents. During the Tertiary period the earth began to take on the shape we see today; many land bridges were covered by rising seas, volcanism and plate tectonics formed many of the high moun- tain ranges of the world, which consequently created new pat- terns of air movement in the upper troposphere. It was also in this time that a period of global cooling occurred and that set the stage for the Pleistocene ice ages. All of these changes gave rise to significant global diversification of plant groups by breaking up old cosmopolitan groups and forming new regional and local populations that caused species to remain in areas with similar environmental and geological characteristics, but spread out within the confines of those areas. The boundaries of these areas are formed by temperature, water, radiation (light in different wave lengths), chemicals, wind, magnetic and electri- cal components. Present moment and future time frames define plant distribution by physical and biological factors that either supply the requirements for the biochemical processes that sustain The Turk's Cap, Volume 5, Number 3 plant life (light, temperature, humidity, and moisture), or that represent sources of stress and disturbance (humans, erosion, fire, pollution, flooding, wind, insects, grazing, avalanches, topography, and characteristics of the soil). Included in this list of factors are two additional features. The first is plant tolerance -the range of stress and disturbance that a plant is able to with- stand without damaging effects: plants with high tolerance have high habitat versatility (and larger geographic ranges), and the second is adaptation-the response to stress and disturbance by increasing tolerance and thereby habitat versatility. There are two types of adaptation; acquired (the change in form or func- tion of an individual plant during its lifetime, an example is growing away from shade), and genetic (new traits in a plant population inherited by future generations). Climatic changes, the evolution of competitors, disease and animal activity also help to destroy, separate, alter or enlarge the areas where certain taxa will thrive. Then, the nature and efficiency of seed disper- sal, the speed with which a species can establish itself in new localities, the ecological requirements of the plant, and the tax- on’s geographic center of origin are all factors that affect the spread of a taxon within a particular ecological area. One result of all these processes and facets to biome formation is that North America from Florida north to Hudson Bay and west to Colorado and northwest through the Yukon Territory and southern half of Alaska is all in the same floristic region. Phytogeography is a huge topic and this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many books on the topic if you have an inquisitive mind. Also refer to The Turk's Cap, Volume 3, Number 4 for a discussion on phytogeography in Delaware. oooo g r j c Zuelke, Editor o o o o o o Letter From The President Continued from page 1 be better for seed production, though we will make one attempt to find some seeds at Blackbird State Forest this fall. I want to invite all members to attend our upcoming second Annual Native Plant Sale, scheduled for November 2, 2002 at the St. Jones Preserve (see announcement elsewhere in this newsletter). We have more than 300 specimens of native trees, shrubs, vines and a few herbs for sale at very low prices. Many of these have been donated by DNPS members. I hope to see you there. We also have scheduled a field trip on 20 October 2002 to The Nature Conservancy’s Jackson Coastal Plain Pond Preserve near Henderson, Maryland. Bill McAvoy will lead us to a series of Delmarva Bays or seasonal ponds where we will get a glimpse of these pond’s interesting flora and unique ecology (more details in the Upcoming Events). Our final field trip this fall will be to collect seeds at Blackbird State Forest on November 10, 2002 (details in the Upcoming Events). I hope that all of you will be able to attend one or more of these events. Please accept my apologies for this short letter but since I have assumed the position of visiting assistant professor at Delaware State University (for the fall semester only) my time for DNPS business has been significantly reduced. I am teaching 2 courses (new for me) and I am designing a laborato- ry for one of these (basic ecology) from scratch as the P age 3 Natural Quotes A L A. s if some little arctic flower, Upon the polar hem, Went wandering down the latitudes, Until it puzzled came To continents of summer. To firmaments of sun, To strange, bright crowds of flowers, And birds of foreign tongue! I say. as if this little flower To Eden wandered in— What then? Why, nothing, only Your inference therefrom! Emily Dickinson semester progresses. I will be able to devote more time to the society at the end of this semester, I hope everyone has a great Autumn! Sincerely, Keith Clancy o o o Native Plant Highlight Bearberry Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. (bearberry, kinni- kinnick) is in the family Ericaceae (Heath family), and is a native perennial evergreen shrub/subshrub. This shrub usually grows no more than six inches tall and has multiple stems that snake along the ground. The finely textured velvety branches are initially white to pale green, becoming smooth and red- brown with maturity. The shiny, leathery, spatula-shape leaves of this broadleaf evergreen are alternately arranged on branch- es. Each leaf is held vertically by a twisted leaf stalk. The dark green leaves are an inch long and have rounded tips tapering back to the base. In fall, the leaves begin changing from a dark green to a reddish-green to purple. It is normally found in well drained soils and has a high tolerance to salinity and drought conditions. Terminal clusters of small urn-shaped flowers bloom from May to June. The perfect flowers are white to pink, and bear round, fleshy or mealy, bright red to pink fruits called drupes. This smooth, glossy skinned fruit will range from 1/4 to 1/2 inch in diameter. The fruit will persist on the plant into ear- ly winter. This long-lived, low growing shrub is very cold toler- ant. It prefers coarse well drained to excessively drained soils of forests, sand dunes, bald or barren areas. It does not tolerate moist or poorly drained habitats. Although bearberry is often found growing on the open sand dunes, like those on our Dela- ware beaches or the open tundra like that in Alaska, it can grow well under the partial shade of forest canopies also. This plants native range is from Labrador to Alaska, south to Virginia, Illinois, Nebraska, and in the mountains from New Mexico north through California to Alaska. A lone popu- lation was recently discovered in Delaware along one of our southern beaches, and is the only known population of bearber- The Tu rk's Csp, Volume 5, Number 3 Psge 4 ry for the state. Native North Americans have used the berries of this plant, which they call kinnikinnick, for generations as a food source. The berries are also used by trappers, traders, and ex- plorers. Most native Americans rely on game animals as a source of meat and they will often make pemmican with the meat as a travel/trail food. Pemmican is a mixture of meat (both dried/smoked and powdered) with rendered animal fat (aka suet, lard) and dried berries (kinnikinnick berries, blueberries, chokeberries, wild cherries, or apples), and nuts. Coastal native Americans would often substitute the red meat with fish. The berries of this plant are also used by native Americans as a stew flavoring and for medicinal purposes, and the dried leaves to make tea for medicinal purposes, and a tobacco for smoking. 0000 Eric Zuelke, Editor o o o o o o Natural Community Highlight INTERDUNAL SWALES Scattered in amongst the dunes of the Atlantic Coast, interdunal swales are tiny wetlands, frequently only a few square meters in size. However, despite their small size, interdunal swales have great conservation significance. Part of this significance comes from the fact that, although they are often little more than a few hundred meters from the ocean, their water comes entirely from precipitation, making them freshwater wetlands. These freshwa- ter conditions, in conjunction with the extremely nutrient-poor sandy soils, creates an unusual habitat that is home to unique communities of plants. In addition to these plant communities, there is an insect, the Bethany Beach firefly ( Photuris betlia- niensis ), that is known only from Delaware’s interdunal swales, and nowhere else in the world. It is another reminder that the conservation of natural communities helps to protect the full range of native species. Cranberry Interdunal Swale Vaccinium macrocarpon Dwarf-shrubland Large Cranberry Dwarf-shrubland Description This swale community is defined as a “dwarf-shrubland” be- cause of the dominance of Vaccinium macrocarpon (large cran- berry), which is an evergreen trailing shrub. While this species is generally dominant, a number of rushes, sedges, grasses, and forbs co-occur and often obscure the low-growing cranberry. Other woody species that occasionally occur in the swales in- clude A cer rubmm (red maple), Vaccinium corymbosum (highbush blueberry), and Myrica cerifera (wax-myrtle). Asso- ciated herbaceous species include Drosera intermedia, Lycopo- diella appressa (creeping clubmoss), Utricularia juncea, Xyris dijformis (pink-based yellow-eyed grass), Xyris torta (twisted yellow-eyed grass), and a moss species Poly trichum commune. Less frequent species encountered often include species found in adjacent swale communities, including the previously de- scribed type: Cladium mariscoides (twig-rush), Schoenoplectus pungens, Juncus canadensis, Juncus dichotomus, Juncus biflo- rus (grassleafrush), Euthamia tenuifolia (slender fragrant goldenrod), Poly gala cruciata (crossleaf milkwort), Pogonia ophioglossoides (rose pogonia), Platanthera blephariglottis (white fringed orchid), Panicum rigidulum, Panicum verru- cosum, Rhynchospora capitellata (brownish beak-rush), Rhyn- chospora scirpoides (long-beaked bald rush), and Andropogon virginicus (broom-sedge). Dynamics Interdunal swales are a unique part of the mosaic of beach and dune communities that occur along our Atlantic coast. Swales are not static communities. Because of the intense forces of wind and water along the coast, swales are subject to potentially rapid changes. They can be highly stressed by salt water that washes over the dunes during a strong storm. These strong storms can also shift the dune sands to the point that the swale is buried entirely. However, the forces that can destroy these swales are the same ones that can create them. Strong storm winds can create a “blow-out,” or depression in the dunes that is deep enough to intersect the water table and provide appro- priate conditions for the establishment of characteristic swale species. Succession The successional processes at work in interdunal swales have not received significant study. However, it is reasonable to pre- sume that, like in other habitats, if the conditions remain fairly stable, that larger woody species will invade and eventually take over the habitat by shading out herbaceous competitors. Of the woody species listed above, wax-myrtle is the species most likely to dominate as succession proceeds, while woody vines such as poison ivy ( Toxicodendron rcidicans ) and Virginia creeper ( Parthenocissus quinquefolia ) would also become in- creasingly abundant. Of course, in such a dynamic habitat, the storm surges that can inundate a swale with saltwater can also kill these woody species, creating sunny openings that would allow the cranberry and other herbs to become re-established, beginning the process anew. Distribution The only occurrences of this community in Delaware are found at Cape Henlopen State Park. Cranberry swale communities can be found from Maryland to Massachusetts. 0000 Peter Bowman, DE Natural Heritage Program Ecologist The Tu rk's Csp, Volume 5, Number 3 Resources and Reviews Page 5 Event Highlights Browns branch kayak/canoe trip This trip was taken on 24 August 2002 in Kent Coun- ty. The day dawned to a downpour that lasted several hours before it stopped just as the trip began. As we put in at Fork Landing Bridge at Big Cripple Swamp, two crabbers were cast- ing their crab pots off the bridge and in just a few minutes had caught several crabs. Under cloudy and threatening skies we paddled effort- lessly downstream along the Browns Branch towards Frederica. The Browns Branch, a tributary of the Murderkill River, is a beautiful, meandering stream that is bordered by floating and emergent marshes, shrublands and narrow fringe forests. After an hour of paddling, we entered the Murderkill River and then continued downstream another hour or two. The scenery along both these waterways was similar. The vegetation of these streams was quite diverse. A few examples of plants we ob- served included: spatterdock, Nuphar lutea, pickerelweed, Pontederia cordata, barnyard grass, Echnichloa walteri, swamp rosemallow, Hibiscus moscheutos, spotted water- hemlock, Cicuta maculata, water parsnip, S him suave, Virginia wild-rye, Elymus virginicus, cardinal flower, Lobelia cardi- nalis, water willow, Decodon verticillatus, royal fern, Osmunda regalis, marsh fern, Thelypteris palustris , ground-nut, Apios americana, fringe tree, Chionanthus virginicus, sweet bay mag- nolia, Magnolia virginiana, arrowwood, Viburnum dentatum, winterberry, Ilex v erticillata, smooth alder, A Inns serrulata, silky dogwood, Comus amomum, marsh dogwood, Comus foemina, sweet pepperbush, Clethra alnifolia, swamp rose, Ro- sa palustris, poison-ivy, Toxicodendron radicans, red maple, Acer rubrum, green ash, Fraxinus pennsylvanicum, and many others. On our paddle back the skies opened-up and we were drenched by the late afternoon thunderstorm. The rains only lasted about 10 minutes, enough to soak us but also served to refresh. OCTARARO NATIVE PLANT NURSERY Plants database website This is a fabulous website created by the US Department of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation Service. The site consists of a database of thousands of plants and each entry includes photographs, a range map, the full taxonomic classifi- cation (from kingdom down to species), threatened and endan- gered status, wetland status and species accounts. This database is full of information and could be invaluable to anyone need- ing specific information about just about any plant in the coun- try. You can find it at http://plants.usda.gov. Website for medicinal and edible plants If you’re into cooking with wild plants, or using plants for ho- listic or herbal medicine then this website could be a great re- source. At http://www.herbalartsclearinghouse.com, you can find a ton of information on topics ranging from guides to plants, uses of medicinal plants, conservation organizations, cooking with wild plants, identifying poisonous plants in the wild, and wilderness survival. This website has something for everyone, from cooking tips for the family to surviving those wilderness backpacking adventures to Alaska, or your favorite mountain climbing spot. Plants of the north website This is an equally informative website about the vegetation of the northwoods. The site also consists of a database with hun- dreds of plants and each entry includes photographs, alternate common names, the full taxonomic classification (from king- dom down to species), a description of the plant, habitats, plant and animal associates, uses, and reproduction. While limited to species of the northwoods only, it is packed with data and would be particularly useful for an adventure to Alaska, Canada, or the Northeast US. You can find it at http:// www. rook, org/earl/b wca/nature/flora.html . This joint trip with the Pennsylvania Native Plant Society was held on 28 September 2002. It was hosted by Jim Mackenzie, manager of the nursery. The folks up there have quite a setup to say the least! We were shown the entire nursery and even some streamside restoration projects they have going on right now. The Octararo Nursery is a wholesale operation only, and they do some big business with thousands of plants going out each spring and summer for contracted jobs. They do a fair amount of business in the autumn, but this is really the time that they clear the shelves to get ready for propagation activities in the late winter and early spring. Their operation employs some great technology like drip irrigation, temperature controlled greenhouses, specialized pots for certain species of plants, water beds for aquatic species and other assorted tools to help them with the high volume of business they do. But they also have some old fashioned elbow grease in the form of the local Amish community who come and work at the nursery and get their hands dirty every spring filling pots with dirt and planting seeds and cuttings in them. The tour of the nursery was great. Jim was a perfect host, and we came home with some great ideas for our nursery. Botanical society of America website If you happen to be a hard-core plant enthusiast, then you’re probably already a member of this society. If not, then you should check out this website. Created by the Society, it has membership information and services, access to many different botanical journals with search engines, employment announce- ments, and lots of links to other botanical websites. You can find it at http://www.botany.org. The Tu rk's Csp, Volume 5, Number 3 Page 6 When: Saturday, 2 November 2002, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Where: DE Native Plant Society’s native plant nursery. Directions: St. Jones Reserve, take Route 1/Route 1 13 to just south of the Dover Air Force Base to the Route 9/Kitts Hummock Rd. intersection; go east on Kitts Hummock Road about 1 mile to the entrance of the St. Jones Reserve (located right next to the John Dickinson Mansion). What’s for sale: Hundreds of trees (oaks, hickories, maples, pines), shrubs (blueberry, chokeberry, pepperbush, viburnum), and a few native herbaceous species will be available at very reasonable prices. For more information: Call 302.674.5187 or email dnps@delawarenativeplants.org. We had a great sale last year (despite the wind and rain) and hope to have an equally great sale this year. So come out and join the fun! The Turk's Cap, Volume 5, Number 3 Zi ipccwwjre £^V£jrrs P sge7 i Sunday, 20 October 2002 - DNPS Field Trip to visit Seasonal ponds (AKA Coastal Plain ponds, Delmarva Bays). We will meet at the parking area at Mud Mill Pond, south east corner of pond on Mud Mill Rd, Kent CO., DE, at 10 AM. Mud Millpond is about 12 miles sw of Dover, and about 3.5 MILES SOUTH OF MARYDEL. ONE WAY TO GET THERE: FROM RTE 10/RTE 13 INTERSECTION TAKE RTE 10 WEST THROUGH CAMDEN TO WILLOW GROVE. At WILLOW GROVE TAKE MUD MILL ROAD WEST TO MUD Millpond (which is on the MD-DE state line). We will travel about 5 minutes into Maryland to visit THE Nature Conservancy's Jackson Lane Coastal Plain Seasonal Pond Preserve. We will be EXPLORING A COMPLEX OF 9 PONDS WITH THE FOLLOWING RARITIES: ELEOCHARIS MELANOCARPA, FlM- BRISTYLIS PERPUSILLA, HOTTONIA INFLATA, BOLTONIA ASTEROIDES, AND HYPERICUM DENTICULATUM. WE WILL BE STUDYING THE PLANT LIFE OF THESE PONDS AND DISCUSS THE ECOLOGY AND FORMATION. FIELD TRIP LEADER will be William McAvoy. PLEASE DRESS APPROPRIATELY for late October. If you plan ON ATTENDING THIS TRIP OR NEED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 302.674.5187. Saturday, 02 November 2002 - Middle Run Natural Area tree planting. Help Delaware Nature Society plant 500 trees along the East side of Middle Run in New Castle County’s Middle Run Natural Area Park, Newark, Delaware. Please dress for the weather and wear long pants, GLOVES AND STURDY SHOES; WE WILL PLANT RAIN OR SHINE . PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS AND REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED. PLEASE BRING A SHOVEL AND A GALLON MILK JUG FULL OF WATER AND TO REFILL. Thanks! ! IMPORTANT ! ! ! ! If you or your group are planning to attend, please contact the Dela- ware Nature Society, 302,239.2334 ext. 34; melissa@dnsashland.org. We need to know numbers FOR REFRESHMENTS AND WE MAY NEED TO CALL YOU IN CASE OF SEVERE WEATHER. GROUPS SHOULD PARK ACROSS THE STREET AT THE POLLY DRUMMOND HILL SHOPPING CENTER AND WALK ACROSS THE ROAD. PLEASE contact Melissa McDerby at the more information, and on the web at www.delawarenature SOCIETY.ORG. Saturday, 02 November 2002 - Second Annual Delaware Native Plant Society native plant sale. For more information Call 302.674.5187, or email at dnplant@aol.com, and see inside this issue. Saturday, 10 November 2002 - From 10 AM to 1 PM. We will meet at the Headquarters of the State Forest off of Blackbird Forest Rd. (north of Vandyke-Greenspring Rd.). Seeds that we col- lect, MINUS THOSE THAT MEMBERS WANT TO KEEP, WILL BE CLEANED AND STORED AND GIVEN PROPER PRE- TREATMENT FOR THE BEST RATE OF GERMINATION POSSIBLE. SEEDLINGS WILL ULTIMATELY MAKE THEIR WAY TO OUR NURSERY AT THE ST. JONES RESERVE. CALL 302.675.5 187, OR EMAIL US AT DNPS@DELAWARENATIVEPLANTS.ORG if you plan on attending or have any questions. DNPS Bi-monthly meetings for 2002 - are currently scheduled the 3rd Tuesday of every other MONTH (EXCEPT MAY). OUR NEXT MEETINGS WILL BE, 19 NOVEMBER 2002, AND 21 JANUARY 2003. MEETINGS WILL TAKE PLACE, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTIFIED, AT 7 PM AT THE AQUATICS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CEN- TER, Woodland Beach Wildlife Area, Rte 9 (4876 Hay Point Landing Road) about 1 mile north of Rte 6. With the exception of the January meeting, we plan to have guest speakers at each meeting (SPEAKERS AND THEIR TOPICS TBA AT A LATER DATE). CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS OR EMAIL US AT DNPS@DELAWARENATIVEPLANTS.ORG. The Turk's Cap, Volume 5, Number 3 Page 8 l Membership Application I L ». ». ». ». ». _ , Member Information i Delaware native Plant Society , i Name: Business Name or Organization: Address: City and Zip Code: Telephone (home/work): E-mail address: " Individual $15.00 " Full-time Student $10.00 " Family or Household $18.00 " Contributing $50.00 " Business $100.00 " Lifetime $500.00 " Donations are also welcome $_ Membership benefits include: * The DNPS quarterly newsletter, The Turk’s Cap * Native plant gardening and landscaping information * Speakers and field trips Total Amount Enclosed: $ Make check payable to: DE Native Plant Society P.O. Box 369, Dover, DE 19903 Delaware Native Plant Society P.O. Box 369 Dover, Delaware 19903 Complimentary Copy