Photos and blog by Marcia K. Myers Blog Editor, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter After a morning filled with useful information on how to get started landscaping with native plants and why it’s important, we returned after lunch to try and absorb even more ideas. Glenda Abney, Director, EathWays Center at Missouri…
The July edition of The News from Native Plant School has been published. Articles: A Big Year for Prairie Forbs by Scott Woodbury Little Known Monarch Facts by Joyce Oberle Listen for Baby Bird Chatter by Scott Woodbury Inviting Pollinators to the Garden by Besa Schweitzer News: One Wild Ones…
The June edition of The News from Native Plant School has been published. Articles: Xerces in your Grocery Store: Working to Make the Food You Eat Better for Bees by Hillary Sardiñas A Woodland Alive by Margy Terpstra News: We are Looking for a few Great Volunteers Rainscaping Small Grants…
The May edition of The News from Native Plant School contains topics on: St. Louis Native Plant Garden Tour by Marsha Gebhardt Native Plant Focus on Purple Coneflower by Scott Woodbury Garden Tours We are Looking for a few Great Volunteers Native Bees Gardening Tips Eco-regional Planting Guides Native Landscaping…
Many opportunities exist for you to attend upcoming May and June events in the native plant, pollinator, and habitat building community. If you’re looking for information, want to see our mission in action, or would like to connect with other like-minded folks, this list is for you! See the sponsoring organizations’…
By Marsha Gebhardt President, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Former St. Louisans Bill and Linda Bennett invite you to a Grow Native! Workshop: Native Plants Get Us Back to Our Roots on Saturday, May 14 in Arcadia, their new hometown. The workshop features speakers Mitch Leachman, Betty Struckhoff, Bill Ruppert, and Julie Norris…
Ed Schmidt of Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter will be doing a presentation titled, The Importance and Pleasure of Growing Native Plants at the Ethical Society of Saint Louis on Sunday, May 8, 2016 from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. There has been a lot of publicity the past year or so about…
By Ruth Kelley Acting President, Wild Ones – Tupelo Chapter Upcoming events for native plant enthusiasts: Seventy species of native wildflowers featured on greenhouse tour Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. Greenhouse Tour and Seedling ID Southernwood Gardens (on Facebook) 4650 Rhine Road (map) Alto Pass, IL 62905 (618) 833-2769…
By Dawn Weber Board Member-at-Large, St. Louis Wild Ones The Grow Native! Southwestern Illinois Event Committee presented a great lineup of speakers for the Native by Design: Landscapes Beyond Beauty workshop in Edwardsville, IL on February 26. The presentations focused on frontline concepts surrounding the value of native plants in…
By Marcia Myers Blog Editor, St. Louis Wild Ones Barely three years ago, most customers at Sugar Creek Gardens were not looking for native plants. Fast forward to this year when Abby Elliott, the owner, plans to increase the tables for native plants: seven tables just for sun-loving, four tables…
