Chapters in Kentucky

Join Wild Ones Lexington to celebrate and support native plant gardening. Enjoy an evening of learning more about native plants, meeting plant enthusiasts, and exchanging gardening tips.

Bring your extra native perennials, shrubs, trees and grasses and replace them with new natives in our plant exchange.Plants (natives only) should be potted and labeled.No native plants to donate?  Bring drinks or snack food.A drawing for door prizes will also take place.

Join Wild Ones as we discuss the Pollinator Habitat Certification Program! Our current president will be overseas, so this meeting will be held exclusively virtually. Please join us and enjoy fellowship from the comfort of your home! You do not have to register to attend this meeting; it is available to the public.

Join us for our annual Spring Native Plant Sale at the Community Farmers Market on Saturday, May 10, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. We will have a wide variety of affordable native plants and seeds grown and harvested from member gardens. All proceeds benefit the chapter and fund our efforts in the community.

Most plant prices will be between $3 and $10. Purchases from the Spring Native Plant Sale help fund our chapter’s initiatives, including grants for local organizations' community gardens and participating in educating community members about native plants.

Our members from Busy Bee Nursery, Ironweed Nursery, and Pennyrile Botanics will also have native plants for purchase. Don't miss this opportunity to find all of your spring planting needs! 

Join us in learning the remarkable work of American Chestnut Seed Orchards and why protecting old growth trees in our landscapes is vital to the health of our community's ecosystem. 

For this field trip, our regular monthly meeting will occur on the last Saturday of May for the month of June to offer more flexibility to participants. This field trip requires registration, and carpooling is encouraged. We will meet in Ashland and depart for Richmond, then take time to visit the Chestnut Seed Orchard, break for lunch, and then visit the Lily Cornett Woods on a short .25 mile walk and talk.  The organizer will contact registered participants via phone to ensure everyone departs and arrives safely and on time. Please plan appropriate dress, footwear, water, and plan to pack lunch. A meeting place for a group dinner will be discussed following our visit to the Lily Cornett Woods.  This event requires a minimum of ten registrations to avoid cancellation.

Yes, they do!  Discover how by joining nature photographer Janet James as she shares colorful images and describes how she learned to really “see” the engineering, architecture, and designs of native tree features.  She has photographed all aspects of the 120 Kentucky species. Find out also how to participate in a citizen science, national tree observation project.