An easy way to keep up to date with what is going on in the native landscaping community in St Louis is to subscribe to local newsletters. Below are some of my favorites.
BiodiverseCity
BiodiverseCity is a new local organization that aims to coordinate and amplify biodiversity efforts across the region. This mostly native plant focused resource is great at highlighting what other organizations are doing around St Louis. Newsletters usually feature a native plant highlight, book review, events, and volunteer opportunities. If you want a general overview of what is going on in the region, this is it.
http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/sustainability/sustainability/biodiversecity-st.-louis.aspx on the right, under get involved, join the list
Wild Ones
Wild Ones has a national newsletter and local blog. The national newsletter has interesting articles about native plant gardening techniques, highlighted native plants, and national events. The local chapter’s blog features descriptions of St Louis area native plant gardens, plant highlights, upcoming local native plant events and sales. Wild Ones really helps me keep in touch with local gardeners in the St Louis area that are passionate about native gardening. There are so many talented gardeners in St Louis and Wild Ones is the place to get to know them.
Audubon
The St Louis Audubon chapter also runs Bring Conservation Home which is a great native plant resource although they don’t have a newsletter. The local Audubon chapter is more bird focused group but they understand that native plants are necessary for birds to thrive. The local chapter newsletter, Tale Feathers, has information about the importance of native plants in bird survival, local native plant events, and common birds you might find living in your native plant garden.
https://stlouisaudubon.org/category/tale-feathers/articles/ sign up is at the very bottom of the page
City of St. Louis Sustainability News
The St Louis office of sustainability puts out a newsletter. The newsletter is filled with local events, sustainable projects that use native plants, grant programs like the Milkweeds for Monarch program and Project Clear, and highlights of how to get involved in our sustainable community.
Email Catherine Werner at WernerC@StLouis-mo.gov to subscribe to monthly Sustainability eNews
Missouri Prairie Foundation
Missouri Prairie Foundation, the keeper of Grow Native!, is an established organization with lots of native plant expertise. While the Missouri Prairie Foundation is a state wide program, many of their tours and talks are outside of the local St Louis area. Their Missouri Prairie Journal is an in-depth scientific quality newsletter highlighting Missouri’s prairies and prairie plants.
To get the Journal you must join but you can also sign up for the enews.
Missouri Native Plant Society
The Missouri Native Plant Society has a very active local chapter with local field trips to ID plants and plant presentations. There is no local newsletter but the statewide publication, The Petal Pusher, is heavily contributed to from the St Louis region. While not landscaping focused this newsletter will help to highlight native plants and their history and uses as well as let you know when upcoming field trips will occur so you can meet the plants in person.
The Xerces Society
We don’t have local chapter of the Xerces Society but I still find their national newsletter and blog to be educational. The Xerces Society focuses on insects and is a great resource to learn about bees, butterflies, pollinators, and all the insects we find in our gardens. Their detailed insect profiles and articles about insect conservation help me understand the purpose of my native garden in the broader system of life on earth.
https://www.xerces.org/blog sign up at the very bottom of the page
State Conservationist Magazine
The Missouri Department of Conservation puts out a beautiful monthly magazine, Missouri Conservationist. With a general conservation theme this magazine covers everything from fishing to prairie chickens. There is usually at least one article about native plants or some other being that might be found in the native plant garden. The photography in the magazine is inspiring and definitely worth looking through each month.
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