Upcoming Events

Discover how ecological landscaping with native plants can make your landscape more resilient and help address the climate crisis. This webinar will highlight practical, evidence-based approaches to designing and maintaining landscapes that build resilience to climate change and support native biodiversity. Join Wild Ones for a free webinar, “EcoBeneficial Landscape Strategies for the Climate Crisis,” featuring environmental horticulturalist and ecological landscape designer Kim Eierman.

Fall is a great time to share both native plants and seeds from our gardens.  Our annual event on Saturday October 4th, is one of the benefits of being a Wild Ones Appalachian Highlands 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 extras, just come and take some home!

The Swap will be followed by a potluck supper and social hour. Please bring your own beverage and a dish to share.  Also, please bring your own plate and utensils for a more sustainable potluck. Please wear a nametag, we will have nametags for new members.

This will be a great opportunity to learn about natives, get plants, and meet members.

You will be charged $2.00 for parking.

Even after reading books and attending talks, many still have pressing questions about ecological landscaping. In this talk, Tallamy addresses common concerns on biodiversity, invasive species, native plants, and conservation strategies, providing practical guidance and motivation to restore nature in everyday spaces. 

On November 6th we will celebrate our fourth anniversary as the Appalachian Highlands Chapter. This is our only official meeting held once a year. We hope to see new faces and of course the regular active members. 

There will be a short business meeting with a social hour afterwards. We will hold the election for 2026 officers. This is the time the Board presents the proposed slate of officers for next year. The members can approve as presented or submit nominations form the floor.

The most important item on the agenda will be discussion of the survey results. This was an important goal the Board established for this year. In addition, we will give a brief review of the chapter Strategic Plan and welcome any suggestions from the membership. 

This is a great time as members reflect on what we have accomplished this year and discuss our future goals. And we have a few door prizes, most exciting is a small battery-powered chainsaw donated by Jani Niner.

Water, coffee, and light sandwiches will be provided. Please bring your favorite “small bites” and your nametag. We have a lot of unclaimed nametags, as well as nametags for new members to distribute.

The Summit building is set back from Volunteer Parkway with an access road between Eastman Credit Union and Bank of Tennessee. There is a cut-through on the Parkway divide for a left turn if you are coming from the downtown Bristol area.

The Board sincerely hopes you will make every effort to attend. We always have a good time.

Details coming soon! 

We tend to think that gardening happens in spring and summer. Our view of fall is all about the striking colours of trees, mostly maples. However, fall offers an abundance of garden interest in the form of flowers and foliage colors, along with displays from berries and seed heads that overflow into the winter season. With the addition of attractive bark and silhouettes from woody plants, we will explore these attributes that are overlooked during the other seasons.

Snow Ferreniea is English, learning initially about plants and gardening from her parents, both of whom were avid gardeners. She 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 horticulture at Garden in the Woods. She has also worked at the New Your Botanical Garden, Holden Arboretum and Wayside Gardens.

The Wild Ones Appalachian Highlands Chapter and the Washington County Master Gardeners are co-sponsoring this talk. 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

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