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 Don’t know how to start a native plant garden or can’t afford one? 

We are collaborating with Ecoplantia to promote our “Starter Gardens”.  

Our Starter Gardens come with your very own Wild Ones Mentor to guide you in site selection, planting  and maintaining your garden,  and advice along your garden journey.

 Our launch date for this program is Sept 20th. 

 We will launch this fall with 20 Starter Gardens, including 8 free gardens. Each garden costs $40 and includes 6 plants and mulch. 

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAGb6HttOATOxWATulIlzm6x1Npju3SUgFn63_xJAbLqsh1Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103154261818043132517

Help us share native plants!

Bring your bare root or potted plant in commercially bought soil and go home with new plants. You do not need to contribute in order to participate. 

Please see this form to register and for more details on safely sharing plants!

More information and registration coming in September. 

Email us with any questions at [email protected]

This is the final of 3 tours of this property in 2026 giving us an opportunity to see the garden change throughout the seasons. 

This woodland residential garden is in the busier area of Howard county, but the property is adjacent to a county recognized green space/wildlife corridor featuring many naturally occurring native spring ephemerals like Mayapples, Jack in the Pulpits and Spring Beauties. This garden, which has been certified as a Demonstration Garden under Howard County’s BayWise program and is also Bee City Certified by the County, features a 100+ years old specimen white oak, a professionally installed raingarden, a permeable parking pad, a native “lawn” with no turf grass anywhere on the property, a pond for the aquatic wildlife, and flagstone walkways snaking through the entire yard. It is also recognized by National Wildlife Federation as a Wildlife Habitat and serves as a Monarch Waystation with its diversity of native plants that sustain the bees, butterflies, moths, etc. Among the prized natives, there also are plenty of non-natives that the owners continue to eradicate.

We are so excited for you to join us for our Fall Native Tree and Shrub Giveaway!

Looking for free native trees? Join Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay and Nurture Natives for our 2026 Fall Native Tree and Shrub Giveaway! All trees and shrubs were donated, rescued, grown from bare‑root saplings, or started from seed by WOCB and NN.

Date: Saturday, October 10
Time: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Place: College of Southern Maryland, Regional Hughesville Campus

Species include:
Gray dogwood (Cornus racemosa)
Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)
Beauty berry (Callicarpa americana)
White beauty berry (Callicarpa americana var. lactea)
River birch (Betula nigra)
Common Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor)
Indigo bush (Amorpha fruticosa)
Redbud (Cercis canadensis)

Link to register in advance for a free tree to follow.

Bring your family and friends to plant a Buffer Garden on the Railway Trail to protect Fishing Creek.
Free giveaways include:
* Native plants from Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay
* Gift Certificates from local nursery 
* Rain Barrels