If you’re going to be in the Sacramento area this August or September, you might want to check out one of five workshops on incorporating native plants in your yard being sponsored by the Sacramento Audubon Society and the Sacramento Valley Chapter of the California Native Plant Society. The workshops are entitled “Welcoming Nature to Your Yard with Native Plants: Less water, less pollution, more bird habitat.”

The workshops involve a 45-minute Audubon at Home presentation covering the basics followed by a 45 minute optional native plant propagation class given by Jennifer Hogan of the SVCNPS.

Learn which native plants are best for our area, how to buy and plant them, and why planting natives is good for everyone. Bird populations are in decline as suitable habitat continues to be lost to development, forestry, agricultural, and other land uses.

Presentations will be given at the following locations:

Saturday, Aug. 9 at 1 p.m.

Arden-Dimick Library

891 Watt Ave., Sacramento 95821

Saturday, Aug. 16, at 1 p.m.

Sylvan Oaks Library

6700 Auburn Blvd.,

Citrus Heights 95621

Saturday, Aug. 23 at 10 a.m.

Effie Yeaw Nature Center, Ancil Hoffman Park

Carmichael 95608

Saturday, Sept. 6 at 1:30 p.m.

Rancho Cordova Library

9845 Folsom Blvd.

Sacramento 95827

Saturday, Sept. 13 at 1:30 p.m.

Orangevale Library

8820 Greenback Lane

Orangevale 95662

For more information, call the Society at (916) 548-0618.