On November 14th we will celebrate our third anniversary as the Appalachian Highlands Chapter. There will be a short business meeting with a social hour afterwards. We will hold the election of 2025 officers. This is a great time as members to reflect on what we have accomplished and to discuss our future goals. Water […] Continue reading "Happy Third Birthday, WOAH!- November 14th Member’s Only Gathering"
This event is a collaborative effort between Washington County Master Gardenersand WOAH. The Workshop is in-person, open to the public, free, and registration isrequired due to limited space. Winter sowing is a method of starting seeds in winter. It involves sowing seeds in anenclosed container to be kept outside during winter, allowing them to germinate […] Continue reading "Winter Sowing Workshop with Gail Olson"
Fall is a great time to share both native plants and seeds from our gardens. Our annual event is one of the benefits of being an official Wild Ones member! This is an opportunity to thin out your flower beds of native plants and bring your labeled plants or seeds to swap and share. Please […] Continue reading "WOAH Plant and Seed Swap and Potluck Dinner–Members Only (October 26, 2024)"
Join Wild Ones Appalachian Chapter at the Emory & Henry Cemetery in Emory, Virginia, as we walk the grounds of this historic cemetery and see the newly developed native plant meadow at the edge of the burial grounds. The E&H Cemetery Board and the University have partnered with the US Fish and Wildlife Partners program […] Continue reading "Emory & Henry Meadow Tour (September 7, 2024)"
Josh and his wife moved to Johnson City from Montgomery, AL in late 2021. Since the spring of 2022, he has been slowly removing the turf from their sloping 1/3-acre plot, and replacing it with mostly native perennials, shrubs, and trees. He works as an architect, and regional design is something he thinks is very important, […] Continue reading "Garden Tour and Nursery Visit – Josh Banks’s Garden – Members Only"
All of life occurs in a geological context. This talk will explore the connections between modern distributions of plants and animals across the 4th dimension: Deep Time. Learn about geological forces and extinct organisms and how they affect the modern assemblages we find in the region today. This event is free and open to the […] Continue reading "Ghosts in the Forest: Prehistory & Ecology in the Southern Appalachians with Jeremy Stout (June 13, 2024)"
Topic: Wild Ones Native Plant Propagation – Part 2 Ben Casteel, Horticulture Instructor and Program Coordinator at the Virginia Highlands Community College invites us to the campus greenhouse in Abingdon to learn about propagation of native Appalachian plants. Ben will cover both Sexual (seed prep – including processing, stratification, and scarification) and Asexual Propagation (division […] Continue reading "Topic: Wild Ones Native Plant Propagation – Part 2 (Thursday, March 14, 2024)"
Snow Ferreniea is English, having initially learned about plants and gardening from her parents, both of whom were avid gardeners. She also received her formal education in horticulture in England. Coming to America in the 70’s, she continued to pursue her passion for plants, especially native ones, as a professional horticulturist. Snow was director of […] Continue reading "Garden Tour – Snow Ferreniea’s Garden – Members Only (May 4, 2024)"
One of the benefits of being an official Wild Ones Member! This is an opportunity to thin out your flower beds of native plants and bring your labeled plants or seeds to swap and share. Please start to gather your extra plants or seeds and identify them for the swap. If you don’t have any […] Continue reading "Seed/Plant Swap with Potluck – Members Only (April 13, 2024)"
A video recording of Rod Walker’s February presentation for the Appalachian Highlands chapter of Wild Ones may be accessed here: https://youtu.be/NdbOnZZpoiU Blue Ridge PRISM Inc began as a volunteer-driven organization dedicated to reducing the negative impact of invasive plants in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Effective invasive plant control is a community and […] Continue reading "Invasive species Management with Rod Walker of Blue Ridge PRISM (Thursday, February 8, 2024)"