The St. Louis County Department of Planning and the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) recently announced the Native Commons demonstration project. Grant funds in the amount of $10,000 will be awarded to a subdivision in unincorporated St. Louis County to fund the transition of common ground to a native landscape.
Know Maintenance Natives Location: Bowood Farms Date: Saturday, February 25 Time: 2 PM Cost: Free All natives aren’t unruly. Some behave quite nicely in the garden with beautiful blooms too. A little attention is all they need to promote flowering and control reseeding and aggressiveness. Come learn about the unique…
Attend a day of seminars, demonstrations, exhibits and workshops featuring both nationally and locally-recognized horticulture professionals. This event is produced by the Horticulture Co-op of Metro St. Louis and the Missouri Botanical Garden, in association with the St. Louis Master Gardeners.
What’s going on with my Pagoda Dogwood? On many branches, the top looks normal but the bottom seems to have been attacked by some critter. After last night’s talk, my first thought is bees, but our speaker didn’t mention any bees using live branches for nests. There seem to be…
The Native Plant School, co-sponsored by St. Louis Wild Ones, is a year-round series of mostly outdoor learning sessions in the Whitmire Wildflower Garden at Shaw Nature Reserve. They will cover various aspects of native home landscaping and prairie/savanna/wetland re-establishment. Please bring your questions, comments, photos, drawings, plant specimens, etc….
We’re finally getting a taste of winter, but the spring planting season will be here before we know it. Here are some opportunities to learn more about landscaping with native plants.
We’re fortunate to have Jeanne Cablish, owner of Native Landscaping by Jeanne as an active member of St. Louis Wild Ones. She was especially active last fall. For starters, she designed the layout for the 2011 Landscape Challenge in Chesterfield.
Editor’s note: Looking for more motivation to get rid of bush honeysuckle? Or perhaps you’d like to tell your neighbors about the importance of removing invasive species? Judy Ward shared this article about a study done at Washington University. WUSTL scientists says suburban influx of deer, invasive plants are affecting…
Kathy Bildner shared these photos of frost flowers on White Crownbeard (Verbesina virginica) in her backyard. Click an image for a larger version.
Editor’s note: You may not wish to read all of this, but just read the part about the area in which you live. Click map images for a larger version, or email me at brighoff@charter.net for copies of the map you can scale. At Laclede’s Landing, the foot of Market Street, the…
