Events

Join Us Thursday, November 20 for Seed Exchange

Bi-monthly (every other month) chapter meeting of the Grand Strand Chapter held on the third Thursday of the month.

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

Tuesday, November 18 at 6:30pm
Speaker: Erin Stevens, President & Landscape Architect, Surculus

Bi-monthly member meeting

Shop native plants and stay a while for tasty fare from the Hunter-Gatherer Brewery at the Hangar

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

The fall sale will be farmer’s-market-style with vendors offering a variety of natives. Each supplier will handle their own check-out process (cash, check, or credit card). Shoppers should bring a box, cart, or wagon to carry plants. Volunteers will be on hand to help you. Admission to the Native Plant Market is free.

Bi-monthly (every other month) chapter meeting of the Grand Strand Chapter held on the third Thursday of the month.

September meeting in Library

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

Bi-monthly member meeting

Current members—bring a friend! Join us for a relaxed social gathering and help spread the word about SCNPS. New members who sign up at the event get a $10 voucher for a burger and beer that night.

Join Us Thursday, July 24 for "Art as Science: the Botany of Traditional Crafts"

Join us in person at CCU or online via Zoom for our monthly chapter meeting. We will have a featured speaker, chapter updates, Plant of the Month, and ways to get involved! Walk-ins are welcome — or join us via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96458641354?pwd=W2Aah1zTVqagjbM82ZT1waBA8Wq9RO.1! Questions? Email grandstrand@scnps.org. 

Join us for a private tour of Moore Farms Botanical Garden, a stunning 65-acre garden blending artistic horticulture with a strong commitment to native plants and sustainable landscape practices.

Join us for a special field trip with Dr. Jeff Steinmetz at the FMU Freshwater Ecology Complex on June 28th, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Join Us for Our Speaker Event

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

Join us Friday June 13th, 2025 for our very first Social Night

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

with Tom Austin

Join us in person at CCU or online via Zoom for our monthly chapter meeting. We will have a featured speaker, chapter updates, Plant of the Month, and ways to get involved! Walk-ins are welcome — or join us via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96458641354?pwd=W2Aah1zTVqagjbM82ZT1waBA8Wq9RO.1!
Questions? Email grandstrand@scnps.org. 

Protecting the Jewels of the Night: How You Can Support Fireflies

Join us at the green space outside of Naturally Outdoors to celebrate Earth Day! We will have a booth set up and would love to connect with you to answer any questions you may have about our chapter, how to integrate natives into your own landscapes, and provide ways to get involved! This will a fun filled family friendly event!

Join us and other conservation groups, educators, artists and more to celebrate Earth Day

Join us to record the plants, birds, bugs, fungi as part of the Columbia City Nature Challenge!

Current members—bring a friend! Join us for a relaxed social gathering and help spread the word about SCNPS. New members who sign up at the event get a $10 voucher for a burger and beer that night.

Spring Native Plant Market for the Lowcountry Chapter of the SCNPS

Join us at the City Center Farmers market to celebrate Earth Day! We will have a booth set up and would love to connect with you to answer any questions you may have about our chapter, how to integrate natives into your own landscapes, and provide ways to get involved!

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

plant sale

Join us at Kalmia gardens! We will have a booth set up and would love to connect with you to answer any questions you may have about our chapter, how to integrate natives into your own landscapes, and provide ways to get involved! This will a fun filled family friendly event!

Join us in person at CCU or online via Zoom for our monthly chapter meeting. We will have a featured speaker, chapter updates, Plant of the Month, and ways to get involved! Walk-ins are welcome — or join us via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96458641354?pwd=W2Aah1zTVqagjbM82ZT1waBA8Wq9RO.1!
Questions? Email grandstrand@scnps.org. 

Tuesday, March 18, 6:30 pm
Lecture: Revisiting F.P. Porcher’s 1863 Resources of Southern Fields and Forests: Insights into Forgotten Medical Botany of the Southeast
George Hanna, Research Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, MUSC Center for Environmental and Biomedical Panomics

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

Science in Your Hands: Using iNaturalist to Contribute Biodiversity Data from Your Backyard with Grant Foster and Zack Radford

Join us at the Francis Marion Freshwater Ecology Center to celebrate World Water Day! There will be information booths, fishing demos, kayaking demos, and more!

Biocontrol Progress using the Giant Salvinia Weevil on the Santee Cooper Lakes

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

Join Us for Our Monthly Speaker Event

Join Mika Gadsden, Special Advisor for Community Initiatives to the City of Charleston, for an insightful presentation on the proposed Ecological Corridor initiative.

Join us in person at CCU or online via Zoom for our monthly chapter meeting. We will have a featured speaker, chapter updates, Plant of the Month, and ways to get involved! Walk-ins are welcome — or join us via Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96458641354?pwd=W2Aah1zTVqagjbM82ZT1waBA8Wq9RO.1!
Questions? Email grandstrand@scnps.org.