City Nature Challenge 2023 Friday, April 28– Monday, May 1, 2023 2023 City Nature Challenge is almost here! The Greater St. Louis Region* is gearing up to compete in the 5th annual City Nature Challenge and we need your participation! The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is a four-day…
The Partners for Native Landscaping come together each year to present a program with the goal of inspiring and helping individuals to create gardens that are not only beautiful but are also habitats for native wildlife. Wild Ones St. Louis Chapter is a proud member of the regional Partners for Native Landscaping…
by Susan Leahy Board member-at-Large Wild Ones St. Louis Chapter, in partnership with Grow Native!, is producing native plant ID tags to help identify plants in your landscape. Why label your plants? For you, the gardener, it’s a great way to remember what you planted where, but more importantly,…
by Marsha Gebhardt, President, St. Louis Chapter In case you haven’t seen it yet…our St. Louis Chapter’s founder, Scott Woodbury, was featured in the Fall 2022 Journal. The article, Wild Ones honors a native plant champion, was written by our member Jean Ponzi, who is green resources manager for the…
Grow Native! is the plant education and marketing ‘arm’ of the Missouri Prairie Foundation (MPF). If you are not familiar with the Grow Native! website, check it out: www.grownative.org. You will find a wealth of information about native plants, including a native plant database, sample garden designs, top ten lists…
Friends and family will find eco-logical fun afoot all around the St. Louis region* while participating in StepOut with iNaturalist! With the fabulous nature exploration app iNaturalist on your smart phones and this map to Nearby Nature Places to Love, you can discover new plant, critter, and natural community friends…
by Renee’ Benage, Plant Sale Chairperson and Membership Chairperson During the 2022 Mother’s Day weekend, Wild Ones – St. Louis Chapter sold 1,826 Missouri native wildflowers and shrubs to Spring Wildflower Market shoppers that were eager to learn about and purchase native plants. Some folks came in with plant lists, others…
The May/June issue of DesignSTL presents the native plant landscapes of Krystal and Steve Coxon, which include the front yard gardens installed in 2019, when they won the Landscape Challenge. The beautiful photos and text celebrate the wide variety of life and learning the native plants provide for…
Saint Louis Native Plant Garden Tour Saturday, June 11 2022 9 am to 4 pm The popular St. Louis Native Plant Garden Tour is produced annually by St. Louis Audubon Society and Wild Ones St. Louis Chapter. This year it also will include participation from Wild Ones St. Charles Area…
By Savannah Furman Wild Ones St. Louis Chapter member Like any other area of interest, the native plant world is awash with books, journals, and online information. A new addition to the genre is Besa Schweitzer’s The Wildflower Garden Planner. Though it’s a book meant to be used month…
