Membership
Upcoming Garden Work Days
Chain Exploration Center: N. 3160 Silver Lake Dr. Waupaca, WI 54981
Saturday July 27th 9am-12pm *rain date of Sunday, July 28th 9am-12pm
Veterans Park: on the west side of Church Street across from the Soo Line Steam Locomotive at 1724 Monroe St. Stevens Point, WI 54481
Monday, August 5th 3-5 pm, *rain date of Thursday, August 8th 6-8 pm
Please email [email protected] to sign up for any of these work days or to be connected with others for carpooling.
Seeking Volunteers!
We are seeking member volunteers to help with the following listed below. This is a good opportunity to engage with fellow native plant and gardening enthusiasts! If interested, please email [email protected].
- We are seeking volunteers who would like their native plant landscaping to be featured on a garden tour for our August 7th member meeting. We will start the tour by meeting at a central location at 5pm so that folks can carpool from there. We will plan on fitting as many in as we can in a 2 hours tour, so your garden may or may not be featured depending on location and tour route. Please contact Alissa Lick [email protected] to be considered as a part of our tour, and know that no garden is too small!
- Seeking a Garden Work Day Coordinator who will work closely with our chapter’s president to identify which gardens need maintenance and help schedule work days for those.
- Seeking Garden Champions for our Plover Library Garden. Duties include weeding, general maintenance, and helping to coordinate garden work days if needed. You do not need to be a plant expert! Wild Ones members can help manage these gardens as well so you wonโt be doing it alone.
Jill’s Plant of the Month
July โ Located in prairies and woodland edges, Butterflyweed grows 1-2โ tall forming neat mounds of bright orange flowers. Host to the larvae, (caterpillars) of the Monarch butterfly, Gray Hairstreak butterfly and Milkweed Tussock moth, Butterflyweed is one of our loveliest native milkweeds in Wisconsin. Butterflyweed emerges late in spring so be sure to mark your plants before they become dormant in the fall. In addition to being a host plant, bees such as leafcutter bees, green sweat bees and small carpenter bees, butterflies, beetles, and hummingbirds are attracted to the nectar. Plant in a sunny location in sandy, loamy soil. A deep taproot makes Butterflyweed drought resistant. Butterflyweed makes a brilliant focal point in any garden or prairie with native grasses such as prairie dropseed or planted with prairie flowers like blazing stars, purple prairie clover, or wild bergamot. Be sure to give butterflyweed lots of space since it does not like to be crowded.
Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa)
The Summer 2024 ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ is here!
It can be accessed online through your Wild Ones account by visiting https://members.wildones.org/journals/. This issue is packed with informative articles including:
Nature, native plants and mental health
The myth of newspaper and cardboard sheet mulch
The sex lives of plants
Exploring the bounty of native edible berries
Two new children’s book reviews
… and more!
Access to the current issue of the ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ is a benefit specific to Wild Ones members
Follow Us on Facebook!
Did you know that our Central Wisconsin Chapter has its own Facebook page? Click here to follow along!
