St Louis Native Plant Swap
This swap page is dedicated to native plants. It is a good resource if you have a plant you are looking for or have extra plants you want to trade or give away. The group hosts a few swap events and attends other plant swap and native plant events. There is also general info about native plants, native plant events, and other resources.
I try to host a couple clearing out the garden days each year where I post which plants I have in abundance and mark them in my yard. People will message me with what plants they want and when they can come over, I will give them my address and when they arrive we go out and dig up how many plants they want and they take them home. Some people will bring me plants as a trade but most are just starting gardening and I'm sure they will pay it forward in a year or two.
St Louis Wild Ones
This page of the St Louis Wild Ones Chapter is a good resource to find out about native plant events coming up in the area. Wild Ones hosts native plant lectures, yard tours, and plant swaps. Most events are free to the public but many join the chapter after their first event because it is a great group for any native plant lover. This group also has a blog about native plants which they post to facebook.
I follow the St Louis Wild Ones so that I can learn about all the native plant events in St Louis and get registered before they fill up. I also like going to the yard tours because it is neat to see real life native plants in the garden and the many ways that they can be used. Every gardener has a slightly different touch and the Wild Ones group tours all the best gardens in St Louis.
Missouri Native Plant Society
This group has more of a botanical focus then a gardening focus. The best way to learn about native plants and their needs is to observe them in the wild. This page is also the go to plant ID group for all your native plant questions. If you find an unidentifiable plant in your yard or on a hike just upload a photo to the page and the group will have an ID for you in a few hours and if it is native or not. Be sure to always double check plant IDs unless they are from an admin. The Missouri Native Plant Society is also a real club you can join. They have native plant lectures monthly and guided plant ID walks.
I follow the Missouri Native Plant Society so that my facebook feed is filled with plant photos. It is a fun game to try to ID the plants I see and then look down in the comments to see if I was right. I also use it to keep track of what is blooming where. Like when I want to see the peak bluebell bloom at St Francis State park I can see when the best time to go is by the photos being posted on the MONPS page.
There are also many other pages that I follow including Missouri nature lovers, Bring conservation home, Missouri naturalist, Bi-state bugs, and many others.
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