Chapters in Colorado

Join us for our Free Native Plant Swap at the Fort Collins Xeriscape Garden Party. You do not have to register to attend.

Learn about plant and pollinator connections with the help of volunteers as you select pollinator-friendly plants for YOUR garden and watch your backyard turn into a habitat for wildlife and a sanctuary for your friends and family.

Nothing to swap? No problem! Everyone is welcome to take home a limited number of plants. Please bring your own bag, basket, tray, or box to transport your plants home.

If you do have plants to donate, please check them in at the swap. If you want to drop off plants before the swap, email [email protected].

Join us as we revisit the major renovation of a mile-long stretch of Cherry Creek between Quebec and Iliff Streets in Denver, which was completed in 2022.  Before the renovation, this area was a wasteland with a deeply incised creek, few trees, lots of bare soil, and with a ragged collection of native and non-native plants.  In places the creek had dug a channel over twenty feet deep.  

Of greatest interest to Wild Ones members, the area was fully re-planted with native forbs, grasses, shrubs and trees.  The grasses and forbs were all planted as seeds.  A Wild Ones tour occurred four years ago during its first year of recovery.  There was a lot of bare ground, but plants were growing.  Come see how the native plants are doing after four years.

 Mini plant swap and garden crawl. Boulder. Bring plants to swap and a bag lunch.  Come tour Zoe’s yard to see what they’re working on and what’s blooming.  Rock garden, veggie garden, bird friendly, low budget, recycling/reclaiming materials, renter. Zoe grows thousands of plants each year, and they can talk propagation as well! Registration required. 

Registration will come later… watch this space. There will also be an opportunity to volunteer to help set up for the plant swap part of this event--details to come.

The swaps continue!! Join us at a member's Four Square Mile garden for a tour of their space, and a chance to casually swap home-grown native plants! The large four year old native garden features many shrubs and trees, including riparian species. Address provided after registration. 

Let us know what you've been growing HERE so we can prepare for your donations. 

Bring any plants you have to swap, labeled with the full Latin name, and your last name. Please ensure that any plants you plan to share at the swap are grown free of chemicals to protect pollinator health: this means no herbicides, pesticides, fungicides or synthetic fertilizers. Please no plants propagated from seeds treated with neonicotinoids. The bees will thank you! To protect our natural areas, we also cannot accept donations of plants that are listed as noxious weeds by the CO Dept. of Agriculture.

NO NEED TO BRING PLANTS TO TAKE PLANTS! 

*Note: we don't know what the available selection of seedlings will be this late in the season. We anticipate that this swap will be focused on plants grown in-situ and moved into pots, as well as seeds. 

Please contact [email protected] to discuss accessibility needs!