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March 2025 Native Plant News

Posted on Mar 27th, 2025Mar 27, 2025 | Native Plant News

March Native Plant News explores the power of local action and global trends in native plant conservation. Discover Missouri’s inventive tree buyback program targeting invasive Bradford pears, and read the remarkable tale of Hawaii’s Ka Palupalu o Kanaloa—once thought extinct, now slowly rebounding. Texas celebrates a landmark native plant partnership with H-E-B stores, while Oregon pedals toward pollinator paradise with Portland Beecycle. Learn how global efforts combat desertification through native plant restoration, and meet California’s newly discovered, yet endangered manzanita. Finally, examine a sobering national study revealing a 22% drop in butterfly populations—and how planting native species can help. Continue reading "March 2025 Native Plant News"

September 2024 Native Plant News

Posted on Sep 26th, 2024Nov 30, 2024 | Native Plant News

This Native Plant News covers critical efforts like climate change impacts on bumble bees in California, Minnesota’s Blue Thumb native planting program, and New York’s Wild Woods Restoration Project. Discover innovative methods in Missouri for managing invasive honeysuckle and Illinois’ new law empowering residents to plant native gardens. Learn how these efforts are restoring ecosystems and supporting biodiversity. Continue reading "September 2024 Native Plant News"

Member Garden: Susan and Kei Pang

Posted on Dec 12th, 2022Sep 23, 2024 | Member Garden

If there is one thing certain about Susan and Kei Pang, it is that they are serious about being ecologically friendly, from building a new home for themselves, to creating a native landscape that is home to many insects, birds and other animals. Continue reading "Member Garden: Susan and Kei Pang"

Member Garden: Lisa Brunette and Anthony Valterra

Posted on Sep 12th, 2022Sep 23, 2024 | Member Garden

Lisa Brunette and her husband Anthony Valterra don’t like to waste time or effort. So it’s no surprise that after less than three years, their yard received top honors in the St. Louis Audubon Society’s Bring Conservation Home (BCH) program. Continue reading "Member Garden: Lisa Brunette and Anthony Valterra"

Meet the designers who created our Minneapolis and St. Louis native garden designs!

Posted on Apr 7th, 2021Sep 19, 2024 | Wild Ones Presents

Wild Ones recently introduced seven beautiful, professional, ecoregion specific, free, native garden designs including for the regions of Minneapolis and St. Louis at nativegardendesigns.wildones.org. Continue reading "Meet the designers who created our Minneapolis and St. Louis native garden designs!"

Member Garden: Sue Leahy

Posted on Jun 23rd, 2019Sep 23, 2024 | Member Garden

Sue Leahy admits she knew nothing about native plants, and says she wasn’t even much of a gardener in 2007. Continue reading "Member Garden: Sue Leahy"

Member Garden: Margy and Dan Terpstra

Posted on May 12th, 2016Sep 23, 2024 | Member Garden

In 1979, Margy Terpstra designed a garden for hummingbirds at their first home, hoping to attract the small, colorful bird to their yard. But she got more than hummingbirds. “The more birds I saw in the es, the more I wanted to learn about them,” she recalled. “Dan gave me a good pair of binoculars […] Continue reading "Member Garden: Margy and Dan Terpstra"

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