Member Garden Gail and Dick Olson
When you’re passionate about something, it’s not work. Just ask Gail and Dick Olson, of Bristol, Virginia. Continue reading "Member Garden Gail and Dick Olson"
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Member Garden: Deb and Ray Rees
Deb and Ray Rees are beginning to see the fruits of their labor in their third year of restoring a small floodplain woodland in Elgin, Illinois. Continue reading "Member Garden: Deb and Ray Rees"
Native Plants, Phytoremediation & Green Infrastructure: How Native Plants Can Be Used to Improve Environmental Quality
Learn about how native plants and phytoremediation can be used to improve soil, air and water quality by removing or transforming common environmental contaminants found in urban, suburban and rural settings. Continue reading "Native Plants, Phytoremediation & Green Infrastructure: How Native Plants Can Be Used to Improve Environmental Quality"
Wild Ones Gift Household Wild Membership Sale
In this season of giving, express your love & gratitude to family, friends, and co-workers with a gift membership to Wild Ones! Your gift helps grow our community of support for natural landscaping and expand Wild Ones network of habitat gardens. Continue reading "Wild Ones Gift Household Wild Membership Sale"
Wild Ones Presents “The Self-Perpetuating Landscape: Setting a Process in Motion…”
Written by Sally Wencel Larry Weaner, landscape designer and author of “Garden Revolution: How our landscapes can be a source of environmental change”, Principal and founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates and founder of New Directions in American Landscapes presented an information-filled webinar on November 16, 2021. In case you missed it, here are some […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Presents “The Self-Perpetuating Landscape: Setting a Process in Motion…”"
2021 Photo Contest Winners
By entering their photographs in our photo contest, photographers are helping Wild Ones further its mission. Wild Ones may use contest photos in Wild Ones publications, promotional materials, presentations, and on the Wild Ones websites and social media channels so that others may be inspired to learn about native plants and natural landscaping. Continue reading "2021 Photo Contest Winners"
“Oaktober” 2021
Wild Ones celebrates the month of Oaktober with highlights from Doug Tallamy’s presentation on his new book, The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees Continue reading "“Oaktober” 2021"
Wild Ones Presents “The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees” by Dr. Doug Tallamy
Drawing from his book, The Nature of Oaks (2021), renowned entomologist Dr. Doug Tallamy offers a month-by-month guide to observing and identifying the growth of oak trees and the living creatures that depend upon oaks for food and shelter. Oaks perform critical ecological functions: they support biodiversity, sequester carbon, stabilize soil, produce high-quality persistent leaf […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Presents “The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees” by Dr. Doug Tallamy"
Member Garden: Donna Baker-Breningstall
Lawn. Lots and lots of lawn. But that lawn provided Donna Baker-Breningstall “a blank slate” to create the landscape she envisioned after she and her husband purchased a new home. Continue reading "Member Garden: Donna Baker-Breningstall"