For a limited time, the Missouri Botanical Garden is offering a RainScaping Prize Drawing. Visit www.mobot.org/rainscaping by February 11, 2014 to enter. Prizes include a $500 gift certificate for Shaw Nature Reserve’s Spring Wildflower Market in May, and five other prizes valued from $350 to $1,000. In addition, landowners in 19 participating municipalities, including residents,…
This year’s Partners for Native Landscaping workshop has been expanded, and features Doug Tallamy, author of “Bringing Nature Home.” On Friday evening, March 21, Doug Tallamy will give a talk designed for continuing native gardeners on the topic “Your Role in Building Biological Corridors: Networks for Life.” A reception with…
By Betty Struckhoff I hope some of you enjoyed Ed’s recent post of Wildflowers in Snow as much as I did. If you would like to try some new stumpers, here are photos I took on January 9, 2014. I will admit that I would be stumped by some of…
By Kathy Bildner I am interested in native plants that stay green all winter. These are two that are still green in my yard. I know there are others underneath the snow. Has anyone else noticed things that stay green?
Discover why Aristotle, Benjamin Franklin, Leo Tolstoy, Sherlock Holmes, and Sir Edmund Hillary were beekeepers! Learn the right way to keep bees. Attend the seventh annual EMBA instructional workshops, taught by distinguished beekeeping educators and authors. Separate courses offered for beginners and experienced beekeepers. Registration packets include professional illustrated guides….
By Ed Schmidt Can you name these wildflowers in their winter garb? I’ll give you a week to respond in the comments section and post the answers next weekend. Click any image to see a larger version.
Thirty-one members enjoyed our annual potluck dinner and seeds exchange as we celebrated the 15th anniversary of St. Louis Chapter Wild Ones. The chapter was chartered on October 18, 1998, founded by Scott Woodbury of Shaw Nature Reserve. Ed Schmidt showed photos from the past year’s events. Betty Struckoff delivered…
This article by Jim Robbins appeared in the New York Times. On the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the Dead, some also celebrate the millions of monarch butterflies that, without fail, fly to the mountainous fir forests of central Mexico on that day….
By Amy Redfield Do you know someone who is a good arborist, or a town or community that cares well for its trees? The Missouri Department of Conservation is accepting nominations for their annual Missouri Arbor Award of Excellence. Please use the brief form on the MDC website to nominate the individual,…
Six guests joined 20 members for this month’s program, held in Illinois. Program Prairie volunteer stewards Nan and Neil Adams hosted a tour of Heartland Prairie located northeast of Alton, Illinois. The Heartland Prairie is a 27-acre reconstructed tallgrass prairie on the north side of Gordon Moore Park. It was planted…
