By Mitch Leachman Coordinator, Bring Conservation Home Executive Director, St. Louis Audubon Society On June 18, St. Louis Audubon’s Bring Conservation Home program and the Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter teamed up for the second year to deliver the St. Louis Native Plant Garden Tour. Two hundred and eighty people…
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…
On the Missouri Botanical Garden website, you can find a comprehensive, downloadable Native Landscaping Manual. This guide to landscaping in Missouri is a collaborative project between the Missouri Department of Conservation and Shaw Nature Reserve. Chapter One: Reconstructing a Tall Grass Prairie A Seeding Guide for Missouri Chapter Two: Rain Gardening and Storm-water Management…
By Marcia Myers Blog Editor, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter The special Missouri Prairie Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration last night on June 18 at 7:00 p.m. began with a “party on the patio” with Ted Drewes ice cream and social mingling, including with the film’s director Carey Lundin. The entire…
By Marcia K. Myers Blog Editor, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Since 2011, St. Louis Wild Ones has worked to provide this annual workshop in partnership with Metro St. Louis Sewer District, Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC), Shaw Nature Reserve, Bring Conservation Home, and Grow Native! This program is on a…
By Dawn Weber Board Member-at-Large, St. Louis Wild Ones The Million Pollinator Garden Challenge is a nationwide call-to-action to preserve and create gardens and landscapes that help revive the health of bees, butterflies, birds, bats, and other pollinators across the United States. Already as members of Wild Ones, we are…
By Marsha Gebhardt President, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Wild Ones members will be providing a strong showing of native landscapes during the free Sustainable Backyard Tour on Sunday, June 12. Eight members will be hosting at five homes on the tour: Susan and Fred Burk – Burk’s Peaceful…
By Marcia Myers Blog Editor, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter In part one of this two-part blog on Dawn Weber’s yard, we learned about the basic components of her yard and how she got started with native plants. In this part, we’ll discover more specifics about the yard, including…
By Dawn Weber Board Member-at-Large Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter Now that the Memorial Day weekend is over, it’s time to plan summer activities! Get your tickets now for the 2016 Native Plant Garden Tour. Last year’s tour sold out! The final day to purchase tickets is Monday, June 6. 2016 St….
Margy and Dan Terpstra created and maintain one of the exceptional native-plant yards in the Saint Louis area. In the May/June/July 2016 edition of the Wild Ones JOURNAL, Barbara A. Schmitz, JOURNAL editor, wrote a two-page article on the Terpstra’s yard under the MEMBER YARDS column on page 14 of…
