Chapters in Kentucky

Celebrate the trees throughout Lexington with friends and neighbors to grow a healthier community. Enjoy the trees and green spaces throughout our area by participating in tree plantings, walks, tours, hikes, educational programs, and more. Most of the events and programs are free and include all ages, interests, and abilities. 

It’s a week-long celebration dedicated to enhancing and appreciating Lexington’s tree canopy. made possible by a range of groups and individuals throughout Fayette County. Tree Week Lexington is a community effort!

A community event with support from Wild Ones
No Wild Ones meeting is scheduled for October

For a full list of Tree Week events, click to visit this website

Let’s meet under the trees to read some poetry. Bring your favorite tree poem, or a brief tree story, or a meditation about trees, and read it to your fellow tree lovers. Your selection may be your own composition, or it may be something written by another person. But please, name your author. No texts written by AI or “improved” by AI! We want to honor the human spirit together with our trees. Your reading should be no longer than three minutes. If you can’t think of anything you want to read, come to listen, enjoy the refreshments, and admire the many mature trees in the urban garden where we are meeting.

Participants must walk on an unpaved surface for about 50 yards. Host Beate Popkin. Event sponsored by Wild Ones.

Join members of the Wild Ones Southern Kentucky Chapter and Warren County Extension Master Gardeners as we sort and package native seeds to donate to the Warren County Public Library seed libraries.

Refreshments will be provided, and volunteers will have the opportunity to take home seed packets with our thanks for their help. For students requiring volunteer or community service hours, our directors will be available to sign documentation.

If you have native seeds to contribute, please send us a quick email with species details so we can print labels in advance. Email [email protected].

Native Seed Packaging Party
Saturday, October 24, 10 a.m. to noon
At the Warren County Extension Office, 5162 Russellville Rd, Bowling Green, KY

Plant taxonomy is the branch of botany dedicated to the scientific identification, description, nomenclature, and classification of plants. It organizes the estimated 390,000 known plant species into a hierarchical system based on shared characteristics. Ann Witherington, a Lexington Wild Ones member, will explain Plant Taxonomy to us gardeners—the naming of straight species, cultivars/nativars, and hybrids. She will cover classification systems especially the 'new' APG system and present a fun 'quiz': The use and misuse of plant names!

Ann has a master’s degree from Northeastern University in botany with a major in plant taxonomy. She taught biology at Asbury University for 20 years and designed for her students a demonstration garden in her yard labeling all her plants both latin and common names.

Join us for our annual Holiday Party and Seed Swap. We’re gathering to socialize, swap seeds, and celebrate another year of growing.

What to expect: 

Enjoy cookies and snacks (feel free to bring cookies to share or swap, though not required!). 

Peruse the seed swap table and take home new plant species! You can bring seeds from your garden if you have them, or just grab some from our stash. Leftover seeds will be donated to the Warren County Public Library Seed Library.

  This year, we would like to try something new. Send us a picture (or pictures!) of your garden. We will build a garden showcase slideshow! Send photos of your garden to [email protected] so we can admire your hard work, ask questions, and share inspiration during the party.

No seeds or cookies required to attend — just bring yourself!