Dan Carter’s passion for native plants and natural communities like prairies started in high school. But it has continued to grow and spread, just like the hundreds and hundreds of native plants in his yard. Continue reading "Member Garden: Dan Carter"
Save the date this coming fall on Tuesday, October 5th at 6:00 p.m. CDT for a webinar with Wild Ones Honorary Director Douglas Tallamy where he will share about his new book “The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees.” Continue reading "Save the Date for Doug Tallamy Webinar"
Wild Ones is sponsoring a series of online learning courses in conjunction with New Directions in American Landscape (NDAL) as a part of their “Broadening Our Landscape Vision: Ecology, Culture, and Art A Virtual Education Series.” This is a great opportunity to learn about ecologically sound landscaping right from your own home! Plus, Wild Ones members […] Continue reading "NDAL Offering Summer Virtual Learning Sessions Discounted for Wild Ones Members"
The staff and National Board of Directors of Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Ltd. are thrilled to announce that Wild Ones National is now allied with Two Thirds for the Birds to promote the use of native plants in landscapes. Continue reading "Wild Ones and Two Thirds for the Birds unite to promote native landscaping"
Wild Ones recently introduced seven beautiful, professional, ecoregion specific, free, native garden designs including for the regions of Minneapolis and St. Louis at nativegardendesigns.wildones.org. Continue reading "Meet the designers who created our Minneapolis and St. Louis native garden designs!"
Please join us in congratulating Lena Song, a student at Oakton High School, Vienna, Virginia, as the recipient of the 2021 One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest “Wild Ones Environmental Sponsorship Award” for her stop motion film “A Home For Us All!” Continue reading "Lena Song Receives Wild Ones Environmental Sponsorship Award"
For Gail Eichelberger, it’s not about making mistakes. It’s about learning from those mistakes. Continue reading "Member Garden: Gail Eichelberger"
We want to share with you how the designers of the Milwaukee plan (Danielle Bell) and Toledo plan (Susan Hall)* each approached this project. We invite you to join us for a free online “Meet the Designers” event on Tuesday, March 9th 5-6 p.m CST / 6-7 p.m. EST. Continue reading "Meet the Milwaukee and Toledo Native Garden Designers"
Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Ltd., is proud to introduce seven professionally-designed, native garden plans free for the public to use specific to the ecoregions of Chattanooga, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Tallahassee and Toledo. An eighth design for Boston is coming soon. The designs can be downloaded from Wild Ones’ newly launched nativegardendesigns.wildones.org website. Continue reading "Wild Ones Introduces Free, Native Garden Designs"
Wild Ones is sponsoring a series of ten Home Gardeners & Educators webinars in conjunction with New Directions in American Landscape (NDAL). There are two FREE webinars! And, Wild Ones members will receive a discounted price on two webinars. Members will pay $28 instead of $38! Continue reading "Home Gardeners & Educator NDAL Webinars"