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Upcoming Events Summary
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August 25 at 2pm Wanda DeWaard "Mystery and Magic of Monarchs" Chattanooga State Humanities Auditorium September 9 Scott Drucker "Landscape Design Solutions with Native Plants" green|spaces October 19-20 Trip to Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in North Carolina November 16 Annual Meeting Spring Creek Retreat
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Benefits of Membership in the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones
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$10 discount for the 2014 native plant symposium presented by the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones.
$5 discount at the
August 25, 2013
"Mystery and Magic of Monarchs" program
Invitations to
MEMBERS-ONLY EVENTS:
*"Landscapes in Progress" garden visit programs
*Guided Native Plant &
Wildflower Walks
*Native Plant Rescues
*Native Plant Nursery Visits
E-mail notices about
upcoming local native plant EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
and events.
Special DISCOUNT OFFERS
from local landscapers
and nurseries,
including
Sunlight Gardens and
Overhill Gardens.
Show your Wild Ones
membership card to receive
10% off at these nurseries.
BECOME INVOLVED
with a group of
local gardeners
interested in
native plant landscaping.
PLUS all the benefits of a
national Wild Ones membership, including the
New Member Handbook
with practical ways
to add native plants to
your landscape ...
AND the quarterly
Wild Ones Journal.
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The Mystery & Magic of Monarchs
Guest Speaker: Wanda DeWaard
 | Monarch on Aster. Photo by Sara Bright, member of Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones
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Sunday
August 25th
2-4 pm
Chattanooga State Humanities Auditorium
Advance prices:
Members $10
Non-Members $15
$15 & $20 at the door
The Tennessee Valley Chapter of the Wild Ones and the Tennessee Aquarium are partnering with outdoor educator Wanda DeWaard to present "The Mystery and Magic of Monarchs" at Chattanooga State Community College's Humanities Auditorium.
This program will reveal the Monarch butterflies amazing life cycle, including its annual summer migration through this area to its winter hibernation site in Mexico.
Learn what YOU can do to help the Monarch and other wildlife. Take home a free aster plant to add to your nectar flower garden.
Wanda is an expert on the Monarch migration and a fascinating speaker; she holds a Masters Degree in Recreation and Outdoor Education.
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Design Your Landscape With Native Plants
Learn from local landscape designer Scott Drucker
Monday, September 9
6:00 pm
Free and open to the public.
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63 East Main Street
Chattanooga TN
Plenty of free parking
Click here for directions
Scott Drucker, our September program speaker realizes that most Wild Ones already know the many reasons why we want to use native plants in our landscape. Therefore, he will start from that point and explain various design uses for native plants. Scott is a Landscape Designer and will focus on practical as well as aesthetic reasons for planting decisions, in addition to mentioning the obvious benefits towards nature in general. Expect to take away some useful and practical information that can be easily applied to your own garden regardless of whether you are starting from scratch or in the process of a renovation.
Scott is a local landscape designer and proprietor of Dream Gardens, his own design and installation company in Chattanooga. After studying Architecture and receiving his B.A. from Tulane University and his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University School of Law, he became the coordinator at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens where his passion for horticulture really surfaced. Scott is a Master Gardener, lectures frequently for regional garden clubs and horticultural organizations, and is on the Board of the Chattanooga Association of Landscape Professionals.
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October to Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
Fall overnight trip, led by Leon and Pat Bates
 Saturday- Sunday, October 19-20 Wild Ones Members & Families Only Reserve your place now. Limited space available.
A walk through Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest is a journey back in time through a magnificent forest with towering trees as old as 400 years. Some enormous yellow-poplars are over 20 feet in circumference and stand 100 feet tall. The floor is carpeted with a garden of wildflowers, ferns, and moss-covered logs from fallen giants. The memorial forest is an outstanding example of a cove hardwood forest -- a forest characterized by rich, thick soils; abundant moisture; and a variety of flora. In 1935, the regional forester wrote the Chief of the Forest Service that the forest was one of the "very few remaining tracts of virgin hardwood in the Appalachians...(and) we ought to buy it to preserve some of the forest original growth in the Appalachians." The only way to see the impressive memorial forest is on foot. The Joyce Kilmer National Recreation Trail covers 2 miles and has two loops: the 1�-mile lower loop passes the Joyce Kilmer Memorial plaque, and the upper �-mile loop swings through Poplar Cove, a grove of the largest trees. We will also travel The Cherohala Skyway, located in southeast Tennessee and southwest North Carolina. The 40+ mile-long scenic Skyway passes through the Cherokee and Nantahala national forests, connecting Tellico Plains, Tennessee with Robbinsville, North Carolina. The beautiful "drive among the clouds" rises from a low point of just under 900 feet at Tellico Plains to a high point of just over 5,400 feet on the slopes of Haw Knob near the Tennessee-North Carolina state line. Leon and Pat Bates are members of our Wild Ones chapter, and you won't want to miss the opportunity to see these beautiful areas with the two of them. Leon is a frequent leader of hikes at the annual Greater Smoky Mountains Wildflower Pilgrimage, and you'll be amazed at what you'll see and learn by taking a walk in the woods with him. We will carpool and leave Chattanooga on Saturday morning, October 19, returning on Sunday afternoon. We have a reserved block of rooms for Saturday night at the Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham in Robbinsville NC. Room options include (1) one queen bed or (2) two queen beds. Room prices range from $63-$99, depending upon the number of people in each room. Room reservations are available on a first come-first served basis by emailing Nora. Please indicate if you are sharing a room with another Wild Ones member.
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Tennessee Valley Wild Ones Annual Meeting
Mark Your Calendar!
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Saturday,
November 16
10:00am meeting
12:30pm lunch
1:30pm hike
Free to Wild Ones members
The Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones will hold its first Annual Meeting on Saturday, November 16 at the Spring Creek Retreat, a 20-acre paradise surrounded by a fifty foot wide mountain creek and bordered by the Cherokee National Forest.
At the morning meeting, we will announce our 2014 programs and preview plans for the March 2014 Symposium. We will be selecting our 2014 "Native Plant of the Year," and we will elect officers for 2014. We will also have a native plant seed and plant swap.
Lunch will be provided, and then Leon Bates will lead us on an easy hike in the nearby Cherokee National Forest.
Save this date on your calendar.
More details will be coming soon!
We thank Beverly Inman-Ebel, Wild Ones member,
for inviting us to spend the day at her beautiful retreat property.
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Mike O'Brien, our Tennessee Valley Wild Ones member, has been capturing some amazing photos this summer. In the following two photos, Mike attracted a Hackberry Emperor, who was gathering nutrients from the skin on his finger.
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Hackberry Emperor "puddling" on Mike's finger.
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Hackberry Emperor on Mike's finger.
Notice the tongue going toward the skin.
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Camoflaged Looper Caterpillar
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Mike captured a fascinating series of photos of a camouflaged Looper Caterpillar (Wavy-Lined Emerald Moth). Look carefully at these sequential photos to see the caterpillar moving along the leaf.
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Camouflaged Looper caterpillar (Wavy-Lined Emerald Moth)
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Pollinators on Native Coneflowers!
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This past month, Mike has captured some beautiful photos of a few of the many pollinators that visit the native Coneflower. Don't the flowers look beautiful too?
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Black Tiger Swallowtail
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American Lady Butterfly
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Bumblebee
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Clouded Sulphur Butterfly
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Frequent sightings of Eastern Tiger Swallowtails this year
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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Wild Ones: Native Plants. Natural Landscapes is a national non-profit organization with over 50 chapters in 13 states that promotes environmentally sound landscaping practices to preserve biodiversity through the preservation, restoration and establishment of native plant communities. Please read more information about Wild Ones at www.wildones.org.
We offer guest speakers, field trips and other special events throughout the year, as well as an annual native plant and natural landscaping symposium in early spring.
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