Our thanks again to St. Louis Wild Ones and the Richmond Heights Garden Club (RHGC) for the grant last year to plant a “pocket prairie” garden in downtown Dogtown. We just had a work day, and I thought you’d like to see how well the plants have taken hold. The…
By Kate Lovelady Earlier this year, St. Louis Wild Ones gave the Dogtown Eco-Village group a grant for a landscape design for the well-traveled intersection of Clayton and Tamm Avenues. There are several popular restaurants and bars nearby. Jeanne Cablish designed an all-native garden for the area, which is dry…
By Susan Lanigan Thanks to all of you for your hard work on the Crossroads rain garden! The garden is beautiful in the sunshine and I always take a few minutes to admire it. Last week was the perfect time to capture the garden at work. I thought you might…
By Ed Schmidt Saturday, April 6, six Wild Ones members joined parents, faculty and a few students to refurbish a large rain garden planting under the direction of Scott Woodbury at Crossroads College Preparatory School on DeBaliviere in St. Louis. The rain garden was first installed in 2009, and was…
By Fran Glass At the University of Missouri-St. Louis our hostess was Jen Fruend of CHERP (Campus Honors Environmental Research Program). CHERP is an urban ecology honors college course studying natural ecosystems to restore wildness to the campus, local parks, and neighborhood. Jen is a CHERP Education and Ecology Instructor…
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…
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 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…
