Blog and photos by Kathy Bildner Member, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Plant name: Wild geranium (Geranium maculatum) Description: This plant is a perennial spring woodland flower. Wild geranium blooms mid-April to mid-May. It’s flowers have five pink petals rounded or slightly notched on the top. The fine veins in…
You have your flats and possibly a small cart for transporting your native plant purchases, your cash and/or checks, and your excitement for the Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter’s booth during the Spring Wildflower Market at Shaw Nature Reserve (SNR) on both Friday, May 12 (pre-sale for Garden members)…
By Premsri Barton Member and Program Committee Volunteer, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Plant name: Nannyberry, sheepberry, sweet viburnum (Viburnum lentago) Description: This plant is a native large shrub or small tree in Northeastern and Midwestern states. It’s also found from southern Canada to Kentucky and Virginia. It has…
Blog and Photos By Kathy Bildner Member, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Plant Name: Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) Description: The flowers are pale blue, one-inch long, bell or trumpet shaped. They hang down in loose clusters from the top of the plant. There are more leaves than flowers with leaves…
By Dawn Weber Board Member-at-Large, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Plant name: Golden currant (Ribes odoratum, also known as Ribes aureum) Description: Height: 4-6 ft, width: 6-10 ft This plant is an open shrub with small, beautiful yellow trumpet-shaped blooms in spring. It smells like cloves when blooming, giving…
Invasive bush honeysuckle chokes out native species including trees, shrubs, and ground-layer plants because of multiple factors including its rapid spread, density, early shading, depletion of the soil, and suspected toxins (1). Not only that but it is difficult to remove because of its thick and gnarly wood, which creates…
Heather Holm is one of the keynote speakers at the Partners for Native Landscaping workshop this coming Friday and Saturday. Her books will be available for sale at the workshop, and she will be available for signing during the Friday social hour as well as during lunch on Saturday. Pollinators…
By Sue Leahy Member-at-Large and Chairperson, PR and Marketing Committee Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Several years ago my husband, Andy, and I planted a dense hedge of native shrubs and small trees in the fall at the back edge of our yard. When spring arrived, much to my…
By Dawn Weber Member-at-Large, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Does this unseasonably nice weather have you itching to go out and clean up the garden? By February, things may be looking a little ragged. Strong winds have knocked over some of the taller plants, indigo “tumbleweeds” are blowing around,…
By Marcia Myers Blog Editor, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Now that winter is here, dreaming and planning of a new garden or garden spot and updating an existing garden can help sustain us throughout the various seasonal weather of cold, darkness, gray skies, ice, and snow. We have…
