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WILD ONES NATURAL LANDSCAPERS, LTD

Wild Ones Natural Landscapers, Ltd. Is a 30+ year old national non-profit organization with the simple mission of providing advocacy and education on the important role native plants play in our environment.

For those who cherish the birds, butterflies, bees, other pollinators and the environment in general, native plants are a cornerstone in the natural world. Plants, be they flowers, grasses, trees, shrubs, etc. that are non-native to our individual geographic communities cannot dependably provide and sustain the food and shelter needed by the natural world. Want non-toxic air and water? Then native plants are again the answer as they don’t require broad and/or ongoing applications of herbicides, pesticides and other toxic chemicals.

Wild Ones Natural Landscapers provides the hands-on, grass roots information for bringing native plants to your part of the country, whether it be your garden, yard, and/or other public and private sites in your community. Many of our chapters throughout the US have established and maintained native plant demonstration gardens as examples of what can be done with native plantscaping.

Our work to bring youth into the native plant environmental movement is addressed through the ‘Wild Ones’ Seeds For Education Grant program. Through both national and local efforts, we organize and support community efforts to establish natural areas of learning. This program reaches out to youth by annually awarding funds for educational projects using plants native to their individual communities.

My personal experience: on 911 (Sept. 11, 2011) we installed a native garden between our busy urban street and backyard fence. It provided peace and sanity on a tragic day for this country. Several years later we decided to go entirely ‘native’ in our backyard with prairie, savanna and shade plants. It grew lovelier each year as the plantings became more established. Four years later we decided to downsize to a condominium so the house went on the market. In spite of a very volatile real estate market our house sold within months to a couple who instantly fell in love with the backyard (“we bought your backyard, not your house!”). It’s now 4 years later and their favorite place to be is the backyard. (Of course we miss it but have been invited to visit often!)

Your support of Wild Ones Natural Landscaping will help us move forward in our mission of achieving a cleaner, better, healthier and even more beautiful environmental world---and hopefully help other people achieve a wonderful and exciting native yard.

M. Rice, Volunteer and Board member

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