by Brooke Widmar | September 7, 2021 | News
The National Park Service and the City of St. Louis have invited our Grow Native! professional members to sell pre-ordered native plants and deliver them to the Gateway Arch National Park on Saturday, Sept. 25, in celebration of National Public Lands Day. Gateway Arch...
by Brooke Widmar | July 26, 2021 | News
Position Opening: Missouri Prairie Foundation and Grow Native! Administrative & Outreach Assistant Full-time (40 hours a week), salaried position, the duties of which involve managing data and occasional event preparation and participation for the Missouri Prairie...
by Brooke Widmar | June 30, 2021 | News
Launched on the Grow Native! website on June 29, the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program features plantings of native plants in designed, well-maintained gardens and in other native landscape plantings in the lower Midwest. “The gardens and landscape...
by Brooke Widmar | May 17, 2021 | Blog
By Mervin Wallace I began growing native perennials in containers for outdoor display about ten years ago, as various native plant colleagues of mine had suggested. At Missouri Wildflowers Nursery, we now have decorative pots, planted seven to eight years ago, which...
by Brooke Widmar | March 22, 2021 | News
The Missouri Prairie Foundation seeks proposals from experienced contractors for several native planting projects in the St. Louis Area. These multi-year projects will be funded by the Missouri Prairie Foundation via grant funding. Please find the two Requests for...
by Brooke Widmar | March 12, 2021 | News
As the first official day of spring nears, you may find it hard to resist your garden “spring cleaning” urge. However, removing fallen leaves and dead plant stalks from plant beds too soon may in fact harm many of the native bees, overwintering moth cocoons, and other...
by Brooke Widmar | March 8, 2021 | News
Learn from four southwestern Illinois regional experts on landscaping and designing with native plants in this panel webinar, free to all registrants, hosted by the Grow Native! Southwest Illinois event committee and the Grow Native! program. Godfrey, IL (March 9,...
by Brooke Widmar | March 3, 2021 | News
Find suppliers of native plant products and services in the 2021 Grow Native! Resource Guide. In the online guide, find native plant nurseries, garden centers that sell native plants, seed suppliers, landscape architects and designers, native landscape installers and...
by Brooke Widmar | February 8, 2021 | Blog
In 2020, Ronda Burnett became the new chair of MPF’s Grow Native! Committee. A native of Monett, MO, Ronda has worked as a community conservation planner with the Missouri Department of Conservation in Springfield, MO since 2005. Ronda is also the author of...
by Brooke Widmar | January 26, 2021 | News
Learn from four regional experts on landscaping and designing with native plants in this panel webinar, free to all registrants, hosted by the Grow Native! Southwest Illinois event committee and the Grow Native! program. Godfrey, IL (January 25, 2021)—Native plant...
