Chapters in Kentucky

Join us for our annual Fall Native Plant Sale at Lost River Cave on  Saturday, September 26, 9 a.m.–12 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. (Prices includes all applicable taxes and fees.) Purchases from the 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.

Attendees will also find an incredible assortment of native plants from our friends at Ironweed Nursery, Pennyrile Botanics, Pick'n'Grin Farm, and Joy of Natives. Don't miss this opportunity to find all of your fall planting needs! 

Celebrate the trees throughout Lexington with friends and neighbors to grow a healthier community. Enjoy the trees and green spaces throughout our area by participating in tree plantings, walks, tours, hikes, educational programs, and more. Most of the events and programs are free and include all ages, interests, and abilities. 

It’s a week-long celebration dedicated to enhancing and appreciating Lexington’s tree canopy. made possible by a range of groups and individuals throughout Fayette County. Tree Week Lexington is a community effort!

A community event with support from Wild Ones
No Wild Ones meeting is scheduled for October

For a full list of Tree Week events, click to visit this website

Let’s meet under the trees to read some poetry. Bring your favorite tree poem, or a brief tree story, or a meditation about trees, and read it to your fellow tree lovers. Your selection may be your own composition, or it may be something written by another person. But please, name your author. No texts written by AI or “improved” by AI! We want to honor the human spirit together with our trees. Your reading should be no longer than three minutes. If you can’t think of anything you want to read, come to listen, enjoy the refreshments, and admire the many mature trees in the urban garden where we are meeting.

Participants must walk on an unpaved surface for about 50 yards. Host Beate Popkin. Event sponsored by Wild Ones.

Plant taxonomy is the branch of botany dedicated to the scientific identification, description, nomenclature, and classification of plants. It organizes the estimated 390,000 known plant species into a hierarchical system based on shared characteristics. Ann Witherington, a Lexington Wild Ones member, will explain Plant Taxonomy to us gardeners—the naming of straight species, cultivars/nativars, and hybrids. She will cover classification systems especially the 'new' APG system and present a fun 'quiz': The use and misuse of plant names!

Ann has a master’s degree from Northeastern University in botany with a major in plant taxonomy. She taught biology at Asbury University for 20 years and designed for her students a demonstration garden in her yard labeling all her plants both latin and common names.