Joy Buslaff, a Wild Ones member in Wisconsin, created a 3-part series of videos about landscaping with native plants and addressing local land-use ordinances. The first video covers the history of lawns, and motivations for native landscaping.
By Peggy Whetzel The U.S. Drought Monitor is forecasting the drought in the Midwest to continue through September 30. I don’t miss the roar of lawnmowers, the humidity, powdery mildew, mosquitoes or Japanese beetles. But I do miss the butterflies and fireflies. And I worry about the wildlife.
Many of us heard about the St. Louis Audubon Society’s Bring Conservation Home (BCH) program at the March meeting. It encourages homeowners to provide quality habitat for birds and other animals by: Landscaping with native plants Removing invasive plant species Conserving water Implementing stewardship practices to support wildlife
Are we inadvertently destroying the Missouri native plant Space-Time Continuum? (The last 3 words borrowed from Star Trek.) Seriously, I wonder if we are introducing plants into our local gene pool that may change the genetic make-up of our local species. To prevent this, the source of origin should be…
Green Time show 404, Missouri Native Grassland Conservation. Features local documentary about Missouri prairies and efforts at UMSL to recreate prairie areas. Don Fitz discusses prairies and their advantages with Jay Fish, of UMSL’s Campus Honors Environmental Research Program, and Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Jon Wingo. They discuss how preserving Missouri’s…
by Betty Struckhoff The Post Dispatch carried a wonderful story of William Knowles, who died recently at age 94, in the Saturday edition. Long-time St. Louis Wild Ones members will remember visiting the property of William and Nancy Knowles in St. Charles County, usually when spring wildflowers were blooming.
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…
