This year’s landscape challenge winner is a young couple with 3 small children living in the Normandy School District community of Pasadena Hills. They have been in the house less than a year and had previously been in an apartment in the Chicago area for 6 years. They are looking…
by Jeanne Cablish Here is a fun video on why we should not grow a lawn….he is partial to growing veggies….just substitute natives when he says veggies! I enjoyed it, hope you do too! Oh and the pictures shown here are of the 2010 Landscape Challenge yard this spring…. seems…
By Amy Redfield Another for the growing mystery plant files! This attractive, upright grower has volunteered in a fellow native plant grower’s yard. Any clues would be welcome!
by Ed Schmidt The St. Louis Chapter of Wild Ones recently made a grant to The Principia School for the purchase of native plants for a landscaping project that will be used to educate students about native plants. Lynne Scott, principal at Principia Upper School, writes, “I wanted to send…
Here are some photos from the May meeting at the home of Chris Siewig, owner of Nature’s Re-Creations. Photos by Bill Hoss and Brian Hall. Click any thumbnail for a larger image. Once you’re viewing a large image, you can click it to see the next photo.
By Amy Redfield A lovely, small plant with darling white flowers has made its home in my native border. I suspect it came in as a give-away at a Wild Ones meeting, but cannot recall what it is! It has definitely made itself at home, spreading with abandon. I’d love…
By Susan Orr To my delight, three male Red-breasted Grosbeaks have spent the last two weeks at the feeders outside my kitchen window!
As several Wild Ones have encountered, deer are becoming increasingly common in urban landscapes. They can be fun to see, but they can also be hard on landscape plants. At our Earth Day booth, several people asked about plants that deer are less-likely to eat.
By Susan Pletscher Can anyone identify this plant with distinctive seeds? It looks neat, but I need to know whether to pull it up or not before it drops seed. I know that I have a definite weed next to it — like a thistle or something that is for…
By Kathy Bildner In March I brought a cocoon of a Polyphemus Moth into my house. I found it in the backyard on a bittersweet vine that grows up my silver maple tree. I knew what it was because last spring I did this same thing. Mid April it emerged…
