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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2012 Landscape Challenge Design

by Jeanne Cablish September 22 is planting day for the 2012 Landscape Challenge.   Here is the design and plant list for those of you who want a preview.   Hope to see you there! Click any image for a larger version, then click the enlargement to go to the next one.

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Landscape Challenge Winner Chosen

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…

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Your Yard is Evil

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…

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Kudos to Jeanne Cablish

We’re fortunate to have Jeanne Cablish, owner of Native Landscaping by Jeanne as an active member of St. Louis Wild Ones. She was especially active last fall. For starters, she designed the layout for the 2011 Landscape Challenge in Chesterfield.

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