Looking to establish a new prairie?
Contact us about our mentoring program!
Native Trees Feed Caterpillars that Feed Birds
Wild for Monarchs and Pollinators
How to design gardens that fit weed ordinances:
How to Native Landscape Without Aggravating Neighbors & Village Officials
May All Your Weeds Be Wildflowers – Bret Rappaport
You Don’t Have to Fight City Hall – Bret Rappaport
Websites that we recommend:
- Wild Ones National Site
- Wild Ones Handbook (a collection of EPA articles)
- Prairie Moon Nursery (excellent guidelines for mowing a new prairie)
- Prairie Nursery (Neil Diboll’s prairie nursery catalog is excellent for plant identification with color photos of all the plants for the Midwest.)
Newly revised to include a wider variety of native landscaping ecoregions, this comprehensive guidebook continues the tradition of how-to information, along with a newly developed list of book resources. You can order a copy for just $10 (includes shipping and handling) at our Wild Ones Store. Wild Ones Landscaping with Native Plants is also available on-line at Environmental Protection Agency web site.
Doug Tallamy Presentations on DVD – $10.00
Toward Harmony with Nature 2014, Native Plants, Natural Landscapes
Part 1: The Value of Having Native Plants in our Yards
Part 2: Creating Healthy, Biodiverse Neighborhood Corridors
We now have Doug Tallamy’s (award winning author of Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens) most recent presentations available for you on DVD. Filmed with a live audience during the January Wild Ones Fox Valley Area Toward Harmony with Nature Conference, the presentations are in two parts. Part 1: The Value of Having Native Plants in our Yards (approx. 1 hr.) and Part 2: Creating Healthy, Biodiverse Neighborhood Corridors (1-1/4 hr. plus Q&A) along with the added bonus of the Wild Ones song written and sung by folksinger Steve Hazell (Intro & song approx. 1/4 hr.).
The Doug Tallamy DVD is available for purchase. Contact: [email protected]