Today’s spotlight is on Grow Native! Certified Pro Gabe Presley, who became certified in 2024. Gabe works with Grow Native! professional member DTLS Landscape Architecture, a St. Louis-based landscape architecture and urban design firm. With a deep admiration for the...
Golden alexanders (Zizia aurea) and Blue false indigo (Baptisia australis). Photo: Scott Woodbury
Learning Plants in the Garden: New Labeled Garden Resource
A new web resource is now available to help contextualize native plants in a garden setting! The Labeled Native Plant Gardens page takes website visitors on a journey through formal and informal native plantings. Each photo illustrates a moment in time at a given...
More Sites Added to Native Gardens of Excellence Program in 2025
Three additional sites have been inducted into the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program, which showcases well-maintained native gardens and plantings in the lower Midwest. The newly inducted gardens are: Laura Ingalls Wilder Home and Museum Monarch Garden...
Grow Native! Announces Launch of New Publication
The Grow Native! program announces a brand new digital resource, free to all. Native Plants for Stormwater Management Projects: Species Selection for the Lower Midwest, by Daniel Shaw and Rusty Schmidt, provides descriptions and photos of 160 native plants and 14...
Grow Native! Adopts New Common Names for Select Species
In 2022, Grow Native! began an initiative to reexamine the common names it uses to identify different native plant species. This effort originated owing to a presentation that Scott Woodbury of Grow Native! professional member Cacalia Design and Wilding gave at the...
Registration Open for Virtual Webinar Series with Partners for Native Landscaping
Grow Native! is a proud participant with the Partners for Native Landscaping. The Partners for Native Landscaping join together each year to present a program with the goal of inspiring and helping individuals to create gardens that are not only beautiful but are also...
Grow Native! Celebrates 25th Anniversary
In 2025, the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Grow Native! program is 25 years old. For a quarter century, this native plant education and marketing program has been a significant catalyst for the growth of the native landscaping movement in the lower Midwest and beyond....
September 21: St. Louis Community College Horticulture Program Native Plant Sale
Grow Native! professional member St. Louis Community College at Meramec, Horticulture Program is hosting a native plant sale on September 21! Saturday September 21, 9 – noon It will be a multi-vendor sale including herbaceous and woody native plants. Please note, some...
More Sites Added to Native Gardens of Excellence Program in 2024
Three additional sites have been inducted into the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program, which showcases native landscaping styles in the lower Midwest. The three new sites are in Missouri and include locations in Columbia, Sedalia, and Springfield. These...
Native Fern Survey: Please Participate
The Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Grow Native! program, in partnership with the Specialty Crops Program at Lincoln University Cooperative Extension, is seeking input on the availability of ferns that are native to the lower Midwest, as well as consumer preferences....
HB 2412 Invasive Plant Hearing – RESCHEDULED to January 23, 2024
**Please note the new date and time for this hearing.** The Missouri House Conservation and Natural Resources Committee will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. in House Hearing Room 3 in the basement of the Missouri Capitol. (There will be...
Grow Native! Professional Member Monarch Watch to Provide Free Milkweed Plants for Qualifying Restoration, School, and Non-profit Projects
Grow Native! professional member Monarch Watch is providing three ways to obtain milkweed plants with its milkweed program. Just choose the milkweed program that fits your situation. Free milkweeds for habitat restoration projects- Monarch Watch will once again be...
Grow Native! Program Bestows 2023 Ambassador Award to Christine Favilla
During its Grow Native! Professional Member Conference on November 8 in Columbia, Missouri, the Grow Native! program awarded the 2023 Grow Native! Ambassador Award to Christine Favilla, Three Rivers Project Coordinator for the Piasa Palisades chapter of the Sierra...
2023 Native Landscape Challenge
Every year, the St. Louis and St. Charles Area Chapters of Wild Ones, with the support of Grow Native!, sponsor the Landscape Challenge, which encourages homeowners to landscape with native plants. Each program chooses a lucky homeowner whose yard receives a makeover,...
MPF/GN! Approved Provider for Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System
The Missouri Prairie Foundation / Grow Native! is now an approved provider for the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LACES)! LACES establishes, maintains, and enforces standards for evaluating professional development and continuing education...
More Sites Added to Native Gardens of Excellence Program in 2023
Five additional sites have been inducted into the Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program, which showcases native landscaping styles in the lower Midwest. The five new sites are in Missouri and include locations in Marthasville, Jackson, and St. Joseph, as...
APA Virtual Luncheon on Land Trusts & Communities April 19
Members of the Missouri Land Trust Coalition, of which MPF serves on the Steering Committee, as well as the Marlborough Community Land Trust, will present on how communities can use land trusts for community planning. If you would like to attend, here is the link,...
New Report Suggests Supply of Native Seeds Insufficient to Meet Current, Future Ecological Restoration Project Needs
This article was first published in January on the www.nationalacademies.org website and is being reposted here, with permission, in its entirety. News Release | January 26, 2023 WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and...