2015 Landscape Challenge update

By Ed Schmidt Planning for the 2015 Landscape Challenge is well underway. The property was chosen by representatives of Wild Ones and Grow Native! from among applications received from Bring Conservation Home participants in University City and surrounding communities. The winning property is in University City. Designer Jeanne Cablish has…

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Creating a landscape and making friends

By Betty Struckhoff Our Wild Ones annual landscape makeover has become one of those markers in my mind’s clockwork — marking a changing season and another year. Always close to the fall equinox, we gather (like Druids?!) to dig in the dirt. This year was no exception. On September 27, 2014 Scott…

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2013 Landscape Challenge update

By Jeanne Cablish The 2014 Landscape Challenge planting is this coming weekend. I thought some pictures from our creation last year would be an inspiration for this Saturday. Dawn and Peter have done a great job maintaining the plantings. Below are some pictures from this summer. Join us on Saturday for…

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Thank you to the Landscape Challenge volunteers

From Dawn Weber, winner of the 2013 Landscape Challenge Thank you so much for everything! Thank you to all of the volunteers who came on planting day. It was amazing to see so many people show up and work together to get all those plants in the ground so quickly! In addition…

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August 2013 meeting minutes

President Ed Schmidt welcomed 19 members and one guest to this month’s yard tour and meeting.  Three members of the Chesterfield Citizens Committee for the Environment also attended the yard tour.  The Committee’s participation was a key reason for Chesterfield being chosen as the location for the 2011 Landscape Challenge….

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Thoughts on landscape design

by Betty Struckhoff On August 7, Wild Ones members were treated to a wonderful front yard native garden in Chesterfield.  It was fun to see our makeover in 2011 and how it has developed over two years (and how two active children have grown along with it).  Part of the…

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2013 Landscape Challenge Winner Announced

by Ed Schmidt The winning property of this year’s Landscape Challenge has been chosen.  A team of Wild Ones members and a representative from Grow Native! processed the 13 applications and visited promising properties on a recent evening.  All applicants this year have participated in Audubon’s Bring Conservation Home program,…

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Landscape Challenge deadline fast approaching

This blogpost is meant to remind anyone who is eligible for this year’s Landscape Challenge that less than two weeks remain before the May 31 deadline for applications to be submitted.  As mentioned in an earlier blog post, this year’s challenge is open to St. Louis Audubon Society’s Bring Conservation…

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2013 Landscape Challenge – applications now being accepted

St. Louis area residents who have had a landscape survey as part of the St. Louis Audubon Society’s Bring Conservation Home (BCH) program received recommendations on how they can incorporate native plants in their yards and improve animal habitat.  Now, they may be eligible to apply for help to implement some of those…

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2012 Landscape Makeover — Fun!

by Betty Struckhoff Saturday, September 22, was a gloriously beautiful day.  What better way to spend it than giving a young family a new front yard landscape of native plants.  Wild Ones members enjoyed installing the design created by our own Jeanne Cablish and who knew Scott Woodbury has stump…

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