Native Plant Exchange May 7th at 5:30pm, Rain or Shine!
Parking Lot, South Elkhorn Christian Church, 4343 Harrodsburg Road
Entrance donation to event: $10.00/person; Cash or Check.
You do not have to be a Wild Ones member to participate.
Bring the native plants you have in your garden that you would like to swap with fellow gardeners to this fun event! Bring one or more native plants (e.g., trees, shrubs, flowering perennials, ferns, grasses). Acceptable non-natives would include naturalized plants and herbs. Bring plants in clean pots, not bags or buckets! Please pot your plants at least 2 weeks in advance for good root development.
Labels should include common name, scientific name, light needs (e.g., sun, shade, sun/pt shade), and water requirements (e.g., wet, medium, dry). Other info could include height, bloom time, color.
Wild Ones will supply 8 x 1” craft sticks at the April meeting. Avery mailing labels work well to mount on this craft stick. Sample label writing:
beardtongue, Penstemon digitalis, sun, dry/med, 3 ft, spring, white
beardtongue, Penstemon ‘Dark Towers’, sun, dry/med, 2 ft; spring, pink
Silent Auction: Each item will state its value and minimum bid. Further bids will be in $10 increments. Participants add their name and bid. Yes, you can rebid at any point. Winners must be present to claim their prize and pay the donation bid.
You are welcome to bring refreshments to this event. No alcohol allowed. See you there!
Virtual Plant Exchange
We host an online plant exchange which functions year round. Wild Ones members and non-members can participate, but every participant must be approved by a group administrator.
To become a participant, sign up at https://groups.io/g/lexwildones. Scroll down to “Group Email Addresses” and click on “Subscribe”. Follow instructions and wait for our approval. Once approved, you will create a password and then you can post the plants you want to give away as well as any plants you are looking for. When you offer or request something, please put your plant(s) in the subject line, and say whether this is a plant offer or a request. To respond to a post, directly contact the person who made the offer or the request and arrange for pick-up or delivery.
To participate in the exchange, you don’t have to offer a plant to the group for every plant you receive. Experience tells us that long-time native plant gardeners have lots of plants to give and new gardeners are greatly in need of plants.
This group functions as a Listserve, which means you potentially receive all the emails posted to the group. But in “Settings”, you can arrange how, when or whether you want to receive these emails with plant offerings or requests: you can receive an email every time someone makes a post, or emails can be bundled in groups of twelve, or you can receive them every morning, or not at all. You can also unsubscribe, of course
Plant Sources and Landscape Services
Fields To Forest Nursey specializes in growing native trees in manageable containers.
Ironweed Nursery grows wildflowers and forbs but also offers a number of woody plants.
Springhouse Gardens Owner Richard Weber sells plants and provides landscape services.
Michler’s Gardens and Greenhouses carries many plants native to Kentucky and the US.
Oakland Farm Trees specializes in container-grown native trees.
Tina’s PLANTSNSUCH grows a variety of native perennials, with a small selection of grasses, vines and shrubs. Contact Tina Elliott [email protected]
Dropseed Nursery carries plants of local genotype from Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern Ohio.
Leafhopper Landscaping LLC Owner Dale Epperson provides landscape services.
EcoGro Owner Russ Turpin provides landscape and water quality services.
EARTHeim Landscape Design Owner Katrina Kelly provides landscape services and sells plants.
Katrina produced Lexington’s Native Garden Design template that helps homeowners replace traditional lawn with native plantings that thrive in the region’s alkaline soils, humid subtropical climate, and patchwork of sun and shade conditions. This plan features prairie and woodland-edge plants built to thrive in Kentucky’s soils. Download the free design: nativegardendesigns.wildones.org/lexington-ky/
