By Peggy Whetzel To go birding or to photograph wildlife, two of his favorite activities, Bill Hoss has only to step outside his white frame house on North Forest Avenue in Webster Groves. From the street, just about the only hint that there’s something unusual about the 43 by 315-foot…
By Peggy Whetzel Small though it is, Fran Glass’s yard could serve as the poster child for making the world a better place, one suburban yard at a time. There are no roses, daylilies or beguiling begonias. Instead, with a gardener’s guiding touch, she’s sprouted a landscape brimming with 170…
By Amy Redfield Scott Barnes once drove four hours – each way – to get some horsetail plants. His very first solo garden would not be complete without the plant that had fascinated him as a child in the fields near his home. That horsetail, and that fascination, have stayed with him everywhere…
Wild Ones member Ann Earley was interviewed on KSDK this spring about the Zoo’s citizen science program to collect data on frogs and toads. The information is then reported to Frog Watch USA. Read the transcript of the interview. Ann is also coordinating our chapter’s participation in the Wild for Monarchs…
By Amy Redfield Margy Terpstra’s second home was bought for a song – bird song, that is. She and her husband passed right through the lovely two-story colonial to the back deck, heard the birds singing, took in the mature trees sure to lure migratory birds, and said “sold.” Margy’s…
By Amy Redfield Ed’s first native garden went entirely to honeysuckle and Euonymus. Not that he thought that was a problem: he figured since he has a very deep lot, why not let the far end of it go back to nature – sort of a wildlife habitat? Less to…
