Meet Fran Glass, Wild Ones Secretary

By Peggy Whetzel Small though it is, Fran Glass’s yard could serve as the poster child for making the world a better place, one suburban yard at a time. There are no roses, daylilies or beguiling begonias. Instead, with a gardener’s guiding touch, she’s sprouted a landscape brimming with 170…

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Tips on planting seeds

Here are Kathy Bildner’s tips on planting seeds: Plant seeds in the late fall or early winter. The seeds must over-winter in the ground. Cover with screen or rocks so the squirrels won’t dig them up. Label the site so you remember what and where you planted. If you plant…

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Creating a landscape and making friends

By Betty Struckhoff Our Wild Ones annual landscape makeover has become one of those markers in my mind’s clockwork — marking a changing season and another year. Always close to the fall equinox, we gather (like Druids?!) to dig in the dirt. This year was no exception. On September 27, 2014 Scott…

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Opportunities wasted and opportunities seized

By Betty Struckhoff I’m not a native plant purist, but one thought often enters my head when I see a vast expanse of mown grass while driving on a highway: What a wasted opportunity! My yard has grass, but only enough to give a sense of order and to preserve a hill for occasional…

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Aldo Leopold benches at SNR

By Marilyn Chryst It was a cold winter night in 1999; there were snow flurries in the air. Yet 8 people showed up at the wood shop of Shaw Arboretum (now Shaw Nature Reserve) for a meeting of the newly formed St. Louis Chapter of Wild Ones. We were there…

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