Chapters in Michigan

Members can look forward to Member-to-Member Garden Yard Tours throughout the growing season!

This day's tour will feature two fantastic yards in Livonia and is open to all Chapter Members and also non-members.  Non-members and anyone wishing to Car Pool are asked to Register using the button below. 

The address of each yard will be communicated to both members and registered non-members approximately 48 hours before the event.

If you are bringing children, please ensure they respect the gardens and their inhabitants.

Yard One:  Jennifer’s Yard - 48150  (1:00pm)

Discover how one self-taught gardener transformed a small front yard into a thoughtfully planned native habitat designed to support the greatest possible diversity of caterpillars. Stroll winding paths through woodland, rain, and sunny gardens while exploring the science behind the design. 

Accessibility: Yard is viewable from paved surfaces. 

More About Jennifer's Yard

Yard Two:  Bob’s Yard - 48154 (2:00pm)

What began with a quest for better hydrangeas blossomed into a sixteen-year journey with native plants and wildlife habitat. Explore a fully native backyard, a pollinator-friendly front yard, and the lessons learned while creating a landscape designed to support nature and inspire neighbors.

Accessibility: Yard is viewable from paved surfaces.

Read More About Bob’s Yard

Member-to-Member (M2M) yard visits (aka Show Me-Tell Me) allow members to share experiences, ideas, and challenges with maintaining native plants in our landscapes. These tours help members & invited guests to learn about different natives and enjoy conversations with other native plant enthusiasts.

Wild Ones member Jeanne Henderson will welcome visitors to her native plant gardens for this program. She has added natives to the landscape for over 30 years and will describe the challenges and benefits of native species. The suburban yard includes shade-loving woodland perennials under maple trees and sun-loving pollinator perennials mixed with shrubs and evergreens for birds. The address is 2942 Imperial Drive, Bay City (actually Monitor township).

Next we drive 1.5 miles to the Frankenlust Township Nature Park to see the ongoing restoration efforts. Non-native invasives were removed, fields were drill-seeded with native perennial wildflowers and grasses, native shrubs planted, eight White Birch trees planted by Wild Ones last September. This fall 10 maple trees will be added with the grant our chapter just awarded to them.

RSVP to [email protected].  Please try to carpool.

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This program is brought to you by the Wild Ones Mid-Mitten Chapter, part of a member-based national organization whose mission promotes environmentally-sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration, and establishment of native plant communities. The Mid-Mitten Chapter is based in Midland, Bay, Saginaw, and Isabella counties. It meets monthly typically on the second Monday, and welcomes new members. For more information go to @midmittenwildones.

Monthly garden maintenance work session for members and the public in our Native Plant Education Garden.

Work includes plant label placement, weeding, transplanting, watering, seed collection, potting up of extra species to give away.

Join other native plant enthusiasts to ask questions and share info. Whether your yard is completely native or you are just getting started on your native plant journey, come join others for some plant talk and good drinks!

During the summer months we will be discussing the 12 week Less Lawn More Life challenges

Pints & Native Plants is an informal meet-up that takes place on the third Thursday of each month. It’s a chance to have a drink together and chat about native plants, challenges in our gardens, pollinators, and more. Everyone is welcome–come by and get to know other native plant enthusiasts and KAWO members.