Chapters in Iowa

In 1925 Cheri's grandparents built their own house and worked on a small farm. The old barns are gone and the brome is slowly being replaced with prairie plants.  But old memories are treasured while new ones are made.

Please join us at this Members Only Event to commemorate this milestone with a Hilltop Native Garden Walk and Open House! 

Refreshments will be served with cake cutting at Noon.

The Old House and Hilltop Gardens are located at 2801 S. Cecelia St, Sioux City. 

We will also host a plant exchange that can include natives, non-invasive ornamentals and house plants.

Members Only Event.

Come join us at Marc and Tracy's Bees & Blooms Garden Walk.  

Marc’s interest in prairies and native gardens started about five years ago. Over the years, he has worked on cultivating native grasses and flowers in the back half of the yard. Tracy has always enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening and has started to drink the kool-aid on the importance of native flowers and grasses. 

Tracy planted a native flower bed around the electrical boxes in the backyard about four years ago, and it's really beautiful. There are also native flowers and grasses planted around the vegetable garden and the bees. Marc started another native flower garden above the fire pit about two years ago, and it is getting better each year.

Four years ago, Tracy took a beekeeping class and started beekeeping. She usually has two
hives and both she and Marc love to sit and watch the bees bring in pollen, drink from the
birdbaths, and fly around the yard. Tracy harvests honey in the fall—last year she harvested
140 pounds. 

Both Marc and Tracy love spending time in their backyard with the bees and the blooms!

This event is free, open to the public, and open yard style. Come and go as you please.  

The Loess Hills chapter of Wild Ones is a non-profit organization that promotes planting native landscapes, both small and large, in Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Native plants attract pollinators and other wildlife, enhancing your home and the environment. 

Hickory Hill Park is a wonderful wildlife park within Iowa City. We will meet at the Conklin lane entrance to the park to gather any tools we need and then hike to the worksite. Because this is a mid summer work event, we will find a shady spot to work, and we will ensure we have extra water. 

The Morningside Garden tour includes two different styles of native plant gardens.

The Ponders' Prairie Patch is adjacent to the beautiful S. Ravine Park, and features purple coneflower, butterfly weed, little bluestem, black-eyed susans, and many more native plants. The garden is ever-evolving by human design and wildlife meddling.  🙂

Located at 3301 Walden Ave, Sioux City.

Tom & Cheri Stewart have created an ever-expanding, backyard native garden paradise that's both beautiful and ecologically significant.  In 2022, the Stewart's Hilltop Garden was awarded Sioux City's Yard-of-the-Year.   

Located at 2801 S. Cecelia Street, Sioux City.

Come walk the gardens and enjoy the pollinators who are also visiting!  

Then relax on a garden bench while enjoying some refreshments.  

Or shop the native plant sale at the Hilltop Garden and pick up a few natives for your own yard.  Proceeds from the plant sale go towards funding native plant gardens and educational programs in the Siouxland region.

Both garden walks are open yard style.  Stop in to look around, and come and go as you please.

The Loess Hills chapter of Wild Ones is a non-profit organization that promotes planting native landscapes, both small and large, in Iowa, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Native plants attract pollinators and other wildlife, enhancing your home and the environment. 

Join Us at Sara's Garden Walk where there is a mix of garden habitats including petite woodlands with Sweet Cicely, Smooth Solomon Seal, Virginia Water Leaf, Snowberry and Ivory Sedge.

There is the shady rain garden with Marsh Marigold, Swamp Rose Mallow , Cardinal Flowers, Sedges and many other moist or shade loving plants.  

In another area there's a small stumpery with a few Ferns that are continuing to expand and behind the stumpery Yellow Jewel Weed grows naturally.     

These 3 gardens are backed by the Perry Creek bank.

In the front yard, are sunny areas with many native plants such as Liatris, Prairie Rose, Michigan Lily, Coneflowers, Coreopsis, Prairie Clover, Wild Indigo and Sedges. On the side of the house there are  more shade-loving plants including Columbine.  

There's also a non-native herb garden and small vegetable garden.    

This is a Free Event, Open to the Public.  

The Garden Walk is Open Yard style.   Come take a look around, come and go as you please.