Chapters in Maryland

Join Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay at UP Meadow Day - This is a community event hosted by the Town of University Park Sustainability Committee and celebrates native pollinator habitat in University Park!

Event Address: UP Native Pollinator Meadow on Adelphi Road, across Hyattsville Recreation Center on Toledo Ave near Library.
Town of University Park Maryland

Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay will be partnering with Nurture Natives for this fun-filled famliy event. We will have information on monarch butterflies and their host plants and nectar plants, as well as information on our chapter. We will also be distributing milkweed (subject to availability). 

RSVP required - Address will be provided after your RSVP is approved.

Visit a new construction home that features native landscaping. Bring your own chair and cup, light refreshments provided. 

Lynn and Jon had their new home built on a densely wooded and neglected lot. They wanted to have environmentally beneficial landscaping that adds to the ecosystem instead of burdening it. Join us to chat about how the process unfolded, hear some of the unique issues that arose along the way, and what has been involved with undertaking this project so far.

Inclement weather date: Sunday 6/28/2026 11am-1pm

Inna Alesina has been removing invasives from the forested area around Stevenson University’s Owings Mills North Campus for the past 2-3 years. She has encouraged her students and fellow faculty to partake in native plant-related projects including invasive removal, art projects, garden installation, and her latest project: starting native plants from seed in an on-campus greenhouse.

Join us for a walk around the forested area to identify native plants and invasives, see some of her projects firsthand, and even remove some invasives if you’re feeling up to it! All of her projects are within a 5 minute- walk of each other.

9:00 am - Tour of greenhouse, tree nursery, pollinator garden, and walk through the woods
10:00 am – Invasive removal    
 

This is the second of 3 tours of this property in 2026 giving us an opportunity to see the garden change throughout the seasons. Be on the lookout for the final tour October 3rd.

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.

Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay is deeply rooted in natives!

Guest speaker: Kerry Wixted

Join us for our bi-monthly Garden Chat to connect and learn from other native plant garden enthusiasts in our area. We welcome gardeners that are just beginning their journey to those with many years of experience as we all continue to learn about native plants and their ecosystems.

All Wild Ones members are welcome to attend and invite a guest!

Registration is required in advance for this meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Registration link to follow.