St. Louis County Council is considering a bill that would reverse a law protecting native landscapes in unincorporated areas of our County. The ordinance, passed in 2024, revised the County Weed Control Code in order to support citizens planting intentional and managed native landscapes in place of turfgrass lawns. Apparently…
Wild Ones Gathering Highlights Home of Max Arens and Nancy Groth Saturday, June 7th and Wednesday, June 11th Max and Nancy became involved with native plants when their love of the outdoors attracted them to the Missouri Master Naturalist program. Max volunteered at Shaw Nature Reserve every summer for 10…
Wild Ones Gathering Highlights Home of Bob and Cathy Pickard Wednesday, May 14th and Saturday May 17th Bob and Cathy started their native gardening journey about ten years ago, after purchasing a garden evaluation at an auction. The evaluation was provided by Jane Schaefer, a member of Wild Ones, and…
More and more people are installing and maintaining native gardens around their homes. If those same people want or need to sell their home, they worry a lot about how to ensure it is sold to someone who values the beauty and benefits of the native habitat they have lovingly…
Wild Ones Gathering Highlights Home of Allison & Steffen Jack Wednesday April 16, 2025 Our Saturday, April 19 gathering, was cancelled due to weather Allison and Steffen lived in various areas of the U.S. and Europe before they made St. Louis their home in 2018 and discovered native plants. Allison,…
Besa Schweitzer joined Wild Ones St. Louis chapter in 2014, while she was employed as a Native Plant Specialist (2004-2017) at Shaw Nature Reserve. Since then, she has made many far-reaching contributions to native landscaping education. Here are some of her impactful contributions. At the national level: Aging with Your…
Taking Root is the heading of the article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that ran on March 23rd, 2025. It was great coverage for the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s multi-faceted, highly effective Grow Native! programming that is making a measurable difference for people, pollinators, water quality, and much more on landscapes…
Spring is near and this was very apparent by the crowd of over 100 who turned out on a sunny – but cool Sunday afternoon in February to learn about native plants at the Ballwin Grows Native 2025 event! Three Wild Ones St. Louis members: Krystal Coxon, Eileen Graessle and…
Native Edibles Presented by: Jen Sieradzki Jen discussed the various ways that you can enjoy edible plants from your native garden. As the Horticultural Manager at Shaw Nature Reserve, she experiments with harvesting and processing native plants and understands their ethnobotanical uses. She has a passion for native plants and…
Healthy Watersheds and Healthy Communities: Why Native Plant Rainscaping is important to local rivers and streams Presented by: David Wilson David retired after a career in environmental education and planning. The last 15 years of his career were spent at East-West Gateway Council of Governments where he led efforts in regional watershed planning…
