VNPS Gift ideas for friends, students, or family

VNPS GIFT MEMBERSHIP
A holiday gift idea of extraordinary pleasure and importance!
Your gift of a membership to the Virginia Native Plant Society would enrich the life of a friend - or a young botanist or ecologist, or Natural Resources Manager of a local park, woodland, forest or refuge. Mail the form on this website (click Join VNPS), or contact Karen York in our office at vnpsofc@shentel.net or call 540-837-1600. Notice of your gift will be sent to your recipient. If time is short for mailing, it can be sent by e-mail.

T-SHIRTS with wildflower artwork of Anita Cooper, Shenandoah Chapter artist (photo above) $15 per shirt ($3 shipping/handling) Available in Forest green, Eggplant and Brown. Small choices limited, but currently all available. Medium, Large and XL available in all colors.

NOTE PADS VNPS Note Pads with Anita’s colorful wildflower artwork border. $4 per pad, 3 for $10, please contact VNPS office for shipping price, vnpsofc@shentel.net or 540-837-1600.

BOOKS

FINDING WILDFLOWERS IN THE WASHINGTON BALTIMORE AREA Cris Fleming, Marion Lobstein & Barbara Tufty, Johns Hopkins University Press. Maps and line drawings. $25 at Amazon.com

THE VIRGINIA NATURALIST John Trott, illustrated by Nicky Staunton Essays from 1927-2000, originally published in the Fauquier Times Democrat. Published by Piedmont Chapter of VNPS with the Middleburg Garden Club. Line drawings. 2nd Printing. $24 ($20 + $4 shipping/handling ) VNPS Office vnpsofc@shentel.net 400 Blandy Farm Lane, #2 Boyce VA 22620 or 540-837-1600

THRILLING TRILLIES AND CAPTIVATING CATTAILS Elwood Fisher Ethnobotanical Essays of Mid-Appalachia Contact bowlenchris@comcast.net $15 ($10 + shipping/handling) Line drawings

VIRGINIA NATIVE PLANTS Hal Wiggins A Short Course on Plant Taxonomy to Describe the Dominant Flowering Plants in the Fredericksburg Area, by Hal Wiggins, Environmental Scientist with the Regulatory Program, US Army Corps of Engineers. Color photographs Amazon.com or http://stores.lulu.com/halwiggins $24.57 Full color - Paperback

A FIELD GUIDE TO CROWS NEST Hal Wiggins http://stores.lulu.com/halwiggins $33 Full Color Paperback $10 Black & White Paperback "A Field Guide to Crow's Nest" takes you on an incredible journey to a land that time has forgotten. Hal Wiggins has worked for over 13 years to document, study, advocate and protect over 1800 acres of a unique peninsula in Stafford County, Virginia that is surrounded by a freshwater, tidal estuary. This is a history of Crow's Nest, from its beginnings millions of years in the past, through Colonial America, the Civil War and the efforts to save it today.