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Monday,
August 10
6:00 pm
Inviting the Butterflies In
Free and Open
to the Public
Monday,
September 14
6:00 pm
The Ferns of Tennessee
Free and Open
t
o the Public
Saturday,
March 5, 2016
Plant Natives 2016!
6th Annual Native Plant Symposium
Save the Date!
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Website!
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Check us out at
wildones.org
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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
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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Inviting the Butterflies In
with Angie Leubben
Monday, August 10
6:00 pm
FREE and Open to the Public
green|spaces
63 E. Main Street, Chattanooga TN
Most people love butterflies, and most would happily welcome more of them into their yards. Come and learn about simple strategies that you can use to entice the maximum number of our regional butterfly species into your yard. If you plant it, they will indeed come.
Angie Luebben is a local area resident who is a Registered Nurse by trade and a nature lover by passion. She has fed, sheltered, and lovingly observed her native yard birds for most of her life, and for the past 7 years has been planting for and hand-raising butterflies. She does not consider herself to be a gardener, but instead, a devoted nature lover who very intentionally fills her yard with plants that benefit the creatures which inhabit it. She does not use any insecticides in her yard, and she believes that everything matters and has its purpose.
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The Ferns of Tennessee
with Dr. Pat Blackwell Cox
Monday, September 14
6:00 pm
FREE and Open to the Public
green|spaces
63 E. Main Street, Chattanooga TN
T
ennessee is home to many native ferns, as well as some undesirable invasives, but many amateur and even professional botanists can find it difficult to distinguish one fern from another. On Monday, September 14, 2015, the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones will host a presentation on "Ferns of Tennessee" by retired TVA Botanical Specialist Patricia Blackwell Cox. Dr. Cox will explain the terminology associated with ferns' structure and will discuss the most common ferns in Tennessee, the rarest ferns in the state, and invasive fern species.
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Landscapes in Progress
Visit 3 Members' Gardens on Signal Mountain
Saturday, September 26
FREE to Members Only
Many members of the Tennessee Valley Chapter of Wild Ones are gardeners who are working to replace exotic and invasive plants with native plants in their own landscapes. This is usually an ongoing process where we gradually learn about which native plants thrive in our specific environment and about how to control invasives.
So that we can learn from each other, twice each year the Chapter offers Landscapes in Progress programs. These informal programs provide an opportunity to see the successes and challenges faced by other gardeners who are incorporating native plants into their landscapes.
These programs are not intended to be "garden tours" where everything is perfect, but rather a chance to share information about how to be better gardeners.
The fall Landscapes in Progress program features three gardens on Signal
Mountain. You'll have the opportunity to view the gardens, talk to the members, ask questions and hopefully pick up a few good ideas for your own landscape.
We hope that you'll come to this event to learn and to ask questions... but also to share information about your own experiences and to spend time with others who love native plant gardening.
This event is reserved for Wild Ones members only. More information is coming soon. Want more details? Email us!
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Check out these articles and websites for information about
"saving the earth, one landscape at a time."
How Trees Calm Us Down.
.. A new study found that an additional ten trees on a given block correspond to a one-percent increase in healthy nearby resident felt. Click
here.
The Million Pollinator Garden Challenge. From individuals, community groups and businesses -- everyone can make a difference. Click here for more info.
Go Wild with Native Plant Gardening. The Nature Conservancy provides an easy plant finder tool to help you get started and videos in which gardeners share how they've used native plants to reduce storm water runoff, attract wildlife and much more. Click here.
Wild Ones Native Plant Butterfly Recognition Program. Just a reminder that Wild Ones' native plant butterfly garden/habitat recognition program is available for you to register your native planting(s). We'd love to have your site listed on our Wild Ones wildlife corridors map. And, don't forget - if you register your garden with Wild Ones, it will automatically be registered with the Million Pollinator Gardens Program. Click here for info.
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New Smoky Mountains Wild Ones Chapter Forming
Recently, our Public Information Co-chair Lucy Scanlon traveled to meet with and answer questions from a group of individuals interested in starting a Wild Ones chapter in the Knoxville/Sevierville area. Several of these folks have been members of the Tennessee Valley Chapter for some time, and we look forward to supporting them in their efforts and partnering on programs in the future.
We will keep you posted about their progress!
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SAVE THE DATE!!
Saturday, March 5, 2016
The sixth annual Tennessee Valley Wild Ones native plant symposium promises to be another outstanding opportunity to learn about native plant gardening from three accomplished and respected experts, so mark your calendar for March 5, 2016 NOW.
Click
here f
or more information about featured speakers
for
Registration information will be coming soon.
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Pipevine Swallowtail Life Cycle in Progress
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Starting on June 17th, TVWO member Mike O'Brien noticed a female Pipevine Swallowtail (
Battus philenor
) laying eggs on a Pipevine
(Aristolochia macrophylla) in his garden in north Alabama. Mike is photographing the development of the eggs and is generously sharing the process with us.
Last month, we saw photos of the freshly laid eggs, as well as the tiny caterpillars emerging from the eggs only six days later. Click
here to see last month's newsletter.
Click
here
to learn more about the Pipevine, the larval host for the Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly.
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Day 7: Caterpillars less than one day old.
Note the slightly larger caterpillar which likely hatched
earlier than the rest.
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| Mature pipevine swallowtail caterpillars on 7-11-15. |
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Size comparison of caterpillar on 7-15-15.
The orange dots are the size of the eggs that
were laid less than month ago.
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Pipeline Swallowtail caterpillar preparing
to form chrysalis on 7-16-15
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Photos from the Garden
from Wild Ones member Mike O'Brien
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Enjoy Mike's recent photos from the outdoors!
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Variegated Fritillary on a Cosmos
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| Gulf Fritillary Egg on Passionvine Tendril |
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| Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar on Passionvine Leaf |
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| Bumblebee Happy Face on Sunflower |
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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.
To contact our chapter, email us at tnvalleywildones@gmail.com
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