Woodland, Savanna, Prairie: How Native Plant Communities Fit In Your Garden

West Cook Wild Ones shares information with landowners about how important their landscaping choices are. We share our ideas, skills, and knowledge with others so that their yards can be hospitable to other animals. Working together, we all can ensure the continuation of ecosystem benefits we receive from healthy, beneficial animal and plant populations.Wild Ones: Native Plants, Natural Landscapes promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Wild Ones is a not-for-profit environmental education and advocacy organization.

West Cook Wild Ones

Discover how to use native plant communities to guide garden design : Join us for our series “Bringing Native Plant Communities Home.”

Please join West Cook Wild Ones for the first presentation in our four part series: "Bringing Native Plant Communities Home." We are excited to bring you:Chicagoland's Native Plant Communities and How They Relate to Your Garden by Iza Redlinski Any spot in your yard can have a beautiful native plant growing in it - all you have to do is find the right plant for the right environment - the best way is to mimic nature. This presentation will walk you through some of our region’s main plant communities and point out more and less common native plants present in given conditions, and how you can adopt them in your garden. Photo Credit: Iza RedlinskiPresenter Bio:Iza is an ecologist, a volunteer steward and a native plant fanatic. She started growing native plants in her garden more than 10 years ago and has not stopped. Her love for native plants stem from working as a restoration ecologist on large prairie and wetland mosaics, and was then refined by spending more time in increasingly urban spaces. She is an optimist believing in a brighter future in which individuals, institutions, corporations and governments heal the land while healing our communities - both physically and mentally. Native plants, of course, will be a large part of the equation.

This event is Part 1 in our 4 part series Bringing Native Plant Communities Home.Please watch for these related programs:April 10: Bringing the Woodland Home with Roy Diblik of Northwind Perennial FarmMay 15: Bringing the Savanna Home with Julia Bunn of The Spirited GardenerJune 12: Bringing the Prairie Home with Drew Reaves of Save the Prairie Society

Our {communityGuidelinesLink} describe the sort of content we prohibit on Eventbrite. If you suspect an event may be in violation, you can report it to us so we can investigate.

To report other categories of prohibited or illegal content, submit {link}

Woodland, Savanna, Prairie: How Native Plant Communities Fit In Your Garden

More events from West Cook Wild Ones

Follow organizers to get events picked for you

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all online events to browse and filter by date, category, and more.

Woodland, Savanna, Prairie: How Native Plant Communities Fit In Your Garden

More events from West Cook Wild Ones

Follow organizers to get events picked for you

You might also like...

Browse more events with different dates, prices, and formats to find your next great experience.

Still looking for the right event?

Explore all online events to browse and filter by date, category, and more.