Are we inadvertently destroying the Missouri native plant Space-Time Continuum? (The last 3 words borrowed from Star Trek.) Seriously, I wonder if we are introducing plants into our local gene pool that may change the genetic make-up of our local species. To prevent this, the source of origin should be…
Green Time show 404, Missouri Native Grassland Conservation. Features local documentary about Missouri prairies and efforts at UMSL to recreate prairie areas. Don Fitz discusses prairies and their advantages with Jay Fish, of UMSL’s Campus Honors Environmental Research Program, and Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Jon Wingo. They discuss how preserving Missouri’s…
by Betty Struckhoff The Post Dispatch carried a wonderful story of William Knowles, who died recently at age 94, in the Saturday edition. Long-time St. Louis Wild Ones members will remember visiting the property of William and Nancy Knowles in St. Charles County, usually when spring wildflowers were blooming.
This year’s landscape challenge winner is a young couple with 3 small children living in the Normandy School District community of Pasadena Hills. They have been in the house less than a year and had previously been in an apartment in the Chicago area for 6 years. They are looking…
by Jeanne Cablish Here is a fun video on why we should not grow a lawn….he is partial to growing veggies….just substitute natives when he says veggies! I enjoyed it, hope you do too! Oh and the pictures shown here are of the 2010 Landscape Challenge yard this spring…. seems…
