Wild Ones Central Alabama (Seedling) Chapter is based in Birmingham and serves communities in Jefferson, Bibb, Shelby, Saint Clair, Blount, Cullman, Walker, Talladega, and Tuscaloosa counties and surrounding areas.
https://centralalabama.wildones.org/
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Wild Ones Gulf Coast Alabama (Seedling) Chapter is based in Mobile, Alabama, and serves communities from eastern Mississippi to the West Florida Panhandle.
https://gulfcoastalabama.wildones.org/
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Wild Ones North Alabama Chapter is based in Huntsville and serves communities in Jackson, Limestone, Madison, Marshall, and Morgan counties, plus communities in Franklin, Giles and Lincoln counties in southern Tennessee.
https://northalabama.wildones.org/
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Upcoming Chapter Events in Alabama
Cultivating Native Fruit
Hosted by Wild Ones North Alabama ChapterSouth Huntsville Public Library, 7901 Bailey Cove Rd SE, Huntsville, AL, 35802 Map
Public Welcome Family Friendly Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
Alabama Cooperative Extension System commercial horticulture agent Holt Akers-Campbell will offer best practices in the propagation, planting, and management of some of our most cherished native fruits including pawpaw, American persimmon, blueberry and elderberry. We will discuss planting for wildlife value, managing for fruit yield, and how these fruits can fit into residential landscaping.
WildOnes North AL Board meeting Members Only
Hosted by Wild Ones North Alabama ChapterRhonda's House, 130 Morning Mist Dr, Huntsville, AL, 35811 Map
Members Only Free Event Chapter Meeting Chapter Board Meeting
Periodic meeting of the WildOnes North Alabama Board of Directors. This meeting is for the Board only, but if you are interested to join the Board in the near future, please contact [email protected]
Year-Round Gardening with Native Plants to Support Pollinators and Wildlife
Hosted by Wild Ones North Alabama ChapterSouth Huntsville Public Library, 7901 Bailey Cove Rd SE, Huntsville, AL, 35802 Map
Public Welcome Free Event Chapter Meeting Program/Speaker Presentation Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
Donnie is Vice- President of Middle Tennessee Wild Ones, and a member of The Tennessee Native Plant Society. Since retiring from teaching high school arts in 2018, Donnie has dedicated his time to building an award winning native plant garden in his backyard and becoming a champion seed germinator. Donnie grows over 250 plants for his Wild Ones Chapter plant sales every spring and fall. He works to rescue native plants from local build sites in Nashville. He presents to garden long groups around the Middle Tennessee area. Donnie and his native garden were featured on Nashville Public Television's Volunteer Gardener.
Foraging Ahead: Native Habitats for the Urban Setting
Hosted by Wild Ones North Alabama ChapterSouth Huntsville Public Library, 7901 Bailey Cove Rd SE, Huntsville, AL, 35802 Map
Public Welcome Free Event Program/Speaker Presentation Wheelchair Accessible Public Restroom Free Public Parking Drinking Fountains
My name is Aaron Stiles and I run Foraging Ahead, a landscape design service dedicated to reintroducing native habitats to the urban setting. Habitats are more than just gardens that use native plants- they are dynamic ecosystems that support a wide variety of life. By utilizing native ecosystems as a model, we can create small sanctuaries for the plants and animals that make Alabama so beautiful.
WildOnes North AL Landscape Tour Members Only
Hosted by Wild Ones North Alabama ChapterZappe Farm, 505 Orvil Smith Rd, Harvest, AL, 35749 Map
Members Only Free Event Home Garden Tour
This is a members-only garden tour (for insurance reasons), and we will limit it to 30 members on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please send a response to [email protected] to reserve your spot.
We (Cathy and Harold Zappe) moved to the US in 1999 from Cape Town, South Africa. We had been gardening there with indigenous plants from the Fynbos biome of the Western Cape so it was natural for us to attempt to do the same in Alabama. It was difficult initially to find native plants so we have used some cultivars and non-natives. The property we bought was nine acres in Harvest, with an older rundown house and several outbuildings. It did have natural elevation changes which gave it more scope for landscaping, a creek and a small patch of woods. The land is multi use with pastures for horses, farmyard and orchard for free range chickens, a vegetable garden using lasagna gardening techniques, a wild meadow and a more formal garden using mostly native plants. The garden is divided into a series of “rooms”, has three flowing water features, plenty of seating, and uses stonework to create structure and interest. The meadow is in its fifth year of succession and has something new each year. We try to plant what will provide a succession of blooming through the year and feed the birds and bugs at all stages and allow things to be a bit weedy so that it provides cover for caterpillars and nestlings. There are about 35 different species of native tree, 14 species of native shrubs as well as many species of perennials, annuals and grasses. We have seen over a 110 species of birds and about 35 species nest on our property. We have seen 18 species of mammal, 30 butterfly species, 10 reptile species and an uncatalogued number of amphibians and other insects.