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Inspiring and educating Southern Californians about the beauty and ecological benefits of California native plants.

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Welcome to Oaktober! 🍃🌳🍂

California’s oaks are iconic trees for a reason. They’re keystone species and a hugely important part of our local ecosystems, providing habitat, food, and shelter for a wide range of wildlife, and have been tended and utilized sustainably by indigenous groups for millennia.

This October, we’re celebrating these incredible trees with two classes that offer different ways to get to know our oaks:

🌿✍️ Nature Journaling: Looking at Oak Leaves
Saturday | October 17 | 10 AM–12 PM

🌳💧 Understanding Oaks: A Tree Walk and Talk with Alison Lancaster
Saturday | October 24 | 1–3 PM

Whether you want to learn how to care for an oak or simply spend some time getting to know them better, come celebrate Oaktober with us! 🎃🍂

Register through the 🔗 in our bio by @theodorepayne

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🚗 Type "fall" below to secure your spot at the sale! 👇
Our parking lot fills up fast during the event, so registration is encouraged. 🎟️

🪴🍁 The Fall Plant Sale is coming up soon! Join us for our biggest sale of the year, lasting two whole weeks from October 27th to November 7th.

At our Fall Plant Sale, you'll find our most diverse offering of plants, seeds, and bulbs, as well as some fun new merch we've been working on! Come shop, get expert horticultural advice, connect with your fellow plant lovers at our Sun Valley nursery.

During the sale, members receive 15% off of all plants, seeds, bulbs, and TPF branded gear and the general public receives 10% off. �

Not a member? Join now at the 🔗 in bio to get that extra discount and start your year of native plant fun.

🎨 Illustration by TPF Staff Member Luke Hulse. by @theodorepayne

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🌵 This Saturday, we are so excited to return to Plantpalooza! We hope you'll join us at this free, family friendly event to celebrate the native plants we all love and learn how best to support them with @conejoopenspacefoundation

Come hang out with us:

📆 Saturday, October 10
🕰️ 10 AM to 1 PM
📍 Conejo Creek North Park, 1379 E Janss Road, Thousand Oaks by @theodorepayne

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Meet our new California Climate Action Corps Fellows: Daniel, Dylan, Erin, Faith, and Nora

Each Fellow brings diverse experience with native plants and will be helping to advance our mission and impact over the next year. 💪🌿 We're very grateful they're here with us — help us welcome them in & drop a "hello!" below 👇👋 by @theodorepayne

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These are the last cohorts of the year, so don't miss your chance to get certified in 2026!

Type PRO below for the 🔗👇

We have three upcoming opportunities to join our California Native Plant Landscaper Certification (CNPLC) program, including a cohort in San Diego and, and for those who benefit from more in-person learning, a 100% in-person training at Theodore Payne Foundation!

Whether you're a landscape professional looking to expand your knowledge or hoping to build a career in the field, CNPLC offers practical skills and expert guidance to help you succeed in California native landscaping.

🌿 Here's what's coming up 👇

CNPLC at Theodore Payne Foundation (Hybrid) 📆 Starts 10/5
💻 Online with one in-person session @ TPF

CNPLC in San Diego (Hybrid) 📆 Starts 11/5
💻 Online with one in-person session
📍 Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego

CNPLC at Theodore Payne Foundation 📆 Starts 12/15
🪏 100% In-Person
📍Tuesday 12/15– to Saturday 12/19 @ TPF

Learn more and register through the 🔗 in our bio! by @theodorepayne

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And the seed is… ocellated Humboldt lily! A few of you guessed correctly with Humboldt lily, but only person one got the subspecies 🌱🏆

Thanks everyone for your guesses, we’ll play again next Seedtember 🫘

#seedtember #theodorepaynefoundation #liliumhumboldtiisspocellatum #LAecology #guessthatseed taken in Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants by @theodorepayne

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We’re so delighted to welcome back The Theodore Payne Foundation to our 5th Annual Native Plantpalooza & EcoFest! They’re bringing native seed packets and you can check out their native seed museum. Saturday 10/10 behind the 1000 Oaks Library 10a-1pm. by @theodorepayne

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Come shop our nurseries in the AM to beat the heat 🍂🌡️

With temperatures hovering in the triple-digits, we will be closing at 1:00 pm Friday, October 2nd through Friday, October 9th for the wellbeing of our customers, staff, and volunteers.

Both nurseries will resume regular operating hours on Saturday, October 10th.

Remember you can always shop plants, books, & more online, 24/7 at store.theodorepayne.org 😎🪭 As always, stay cool and hydrated, everyone!

Please note that our scheduled classes will be unaffected by the nursery hours and will continue as scheduled. by @theodorepayne

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Guess that seed! Leave your guesses below 👇🌰👇🌰👇🌰

Hints:
If you’ve strolled the wooded canyon, and by chance looked ‘round to see
A little paper lantern…well, you can guess that it was me

And my loculicidal capsule that holds me safe inside…
Its carpels, valves and septums make the perfect place to hide

Stacked up so snug and neatly, how cozily I’m sealed…
‘Till the capsule sutures open, and I’m charmingly revealed

What seed am i??? 🔍

🌱 Look for the answer Friday at 10 am, PST!

#seedtember #guessthatseed #theodorepaynefoundation #californianativeplants #LAecology #californianativeseeds #wildflowers taken in Theodore Payne Foundation for Wild Flowers & Native Plants by @theodorepayne

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Ever wondered what those purple plant tags at TPF mean?

They identify plants grown as a part of our Local Source Initiative (LSI). Through the LSI program, and by permit, TPF collects and documents seed from specific wild populations, then grows plants, made available in our nursery, for gardeners to bring into their landscapes.

By working with locally sourced plants that have evolved to our regions, we can help conserve regional genetic diversity and the unique plant communities of Southern California.

Want to learn more about the work behind the purple tags?

Join us for Local Source Initiative: Supporting Regional Biodiversity with Locally Sourced Plants with Ella Andersson,
a special talk on October 14 at 6 PM.

🌱 Free for members
🌱 Pay-What-You-Can for the public

Register at the 🔗 in our bio. by @theodorepayne

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