Events Calendar

Bill Moll will illustrate how native shrubs can be used in your landscape with examples from about 25 commonly available shrubs that can be included in your garden design:

Criteria:

Under 10’, Attractive, Commonly available, Easy to grow

This course features an engaging Apple Keynote presentation exploring the art and science of cultivating a moss lawn or garden. Topics will include how to establish and maintain a thriving moss landscape, as well as the essential role mosses play in the environment. Weather and time permitting, we will also venture into the natural beauty of Reflection Riding to observe mosses in their native habitat.

Native plant gardening on a shoestring. 

Holli Richey, Dennis Bishop, Stephen Eselgroth, Bill Moll and others will discuss various ways to acquire native plants at low or no cost by cooperating with your neighbors.

    Sharing Plants – gardeners have extra plants through reseeding or division.

    Sharing Orders – 

        flats of plugs are inexpensive, but you may not want 49 plugs of one species;

        bare root shrubs and trees come in bundles of 100, but you probably want just a few.

    Sharing Seeds – many native plants grow readily from seeds which can be shared for free.

In this class, we are going to study the social-cultural side of native plants, and how these forces affect their distribution and use. We will discuss the indigenous and colonial history of the area, urban ecological systems, and examples of cultivating communities around edible native plantings. A central question will be, how do we create a culture that perpetuates native plants for the common good of our local ecology and local communities? We will look at several specific native plants to consider how they spread botanically and ecologically, as well as socially and culturally. 

Join members of the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones for a private tour of two of our members' gardens in Red Bank.

You will receive directions and parking details in a follow-up email the week of the event.

Board members meet to discuss our chapter's progress and make decisions when necessary.

Medicinal Native Plants in the Tennessee Valley Region

The botanically-rich region of the Tennessee Valley makes it a full pharmacy when it
comes to the medicinal qualities of its native plants. In this course, participants will get
to know over 20 native plants found at Reflection Riding: how to identify them, where
they grow, what their medicinal properties are, how and when to harvest them and how
to make them into medicine. We will match plants with people through a health
assessment, so participants can see what plants might be important to include in their
own garden to help themselves, their friends and family. Ethically-sound and
sustainable sourcing and wildcrafting practices will be stressed.

Details coming soon! 

Fall Plant Sale.

Fall is the perfect time for planting.  Join us for this free event.  A variety of local and regional native plant nurseries will be selling a large selection of plants.

Details coming soon! 

Board members meet to discuss our chapter's progress and make decisions when necessary.

All Tennessee Valley Wild Ones members and guests are welcome to attend.  We will have a potluck lunch, election of officers, highlights of 2025, and a plant swap.  Please bring a dish and plants to share. This is a great time to visit with other native plant enthusiasts!

Details coming soon!