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…
Blog by April Anderson Member, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Horticultural Volunteer Coordinator, Museum of Transportation Photos by Betty Struckhoff Member, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Lead Volunteer, Museum of Transportation Wild Ones as well as friends who may be new to gardening with natives are invited to…
April 8 and 12, 2017 Susan and Fred Burk hosted two April yard tour gatherings. They and Marsha Gebhardt welcomed 25 members and one guest on Saturday, April 8 and 27 members and five guests on Wednesday evening April 12. Susan and Fred moved into their small Kirkwood home 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)…
Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter will be selling native plants during the Spring Wildflower Market at Shaw Nature Reserve on both Friday, May 12 and Saturday, May 13. We hope you will shop our booth at the sale, as the profits are our Chapter’s main source of income. Come shop with us…
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 by Susan Burk Member, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter [Editor’s Note: At the end of the gathering on Wednesday, April 12, 2017, Fred and Susan Burk were busy counting monarch eggs. They need our help as these early monarch eggs are now hungry caterpillars!] It is unusual to…
By James Faupel Vice-President, Wild Ones- St. Louis Chapter Outreach and Speaker Coordinator This week the Meramec Botanical Society at St. Louis Community College Meramec will be hosting their annual Horticulture Plant Sale on April 27 and 28. They will have around twenty different native perennials available for purchase, along…
By Marsha Gebhardt President, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter In the interest of promoting landscaping with native plants, our Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter has an increasing collaboration with the GrowNative! program of the Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF). Our Board of Directors voted late last year to become an Institutional…
By Besa Schweitzer Webmaster, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Photos by Darla Preiss My Mexican plum just started to bloom around March 1. The flowers continue… Plant name: Mexican plum (Prunus mexicana) Description: Height: 15-20 feet, width: 10-15 feet A small tree that refuses to grow straight and will…
