Events

Down to Earth Garden Club will be selling native plants and more from 10am to 5pm each day at the Waveland Art Fair. Art Fair entrance fee is $5 adult, children under 12 free. 

$10 to park
Event cancelled if rain  

Ironweed will present a Pawpaw Party Festival with workshops Natural History of the Pawpaw by Wysor Ecological Services, Native Plants & Rules & Ordinances by Beargrass Thunder, Food Forests by Clover Systems, Green Real Estate with Erin Hoagland of 85W group. 

Other offerings: pawpaw ice cream, pawpaw baked goods, pawpaw fruit, pawpaw trees, Pawpaw Ale8, Brenneman & Bucks Farm & their food truck Farmcut Kitchen, textiles, native plant jellies, barn quilts, and more, plus musicians!

If you haven't tasted a pawpaw, now is your chance!

What does it really take to turn a conventional lawn into a thriving native meadow? Join Owner & Principal, New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL), Sara Weaner Cooper for a candid look at her family's ongoing lawn-to-meadow transformation featured in The New York Times and BBC. Drawing from three years of hands-on experience, Sara will share the methods, lessons learned, successes, and challenges of converting turfgrass into a dynamic native plant community. Participants will gain practical insights into site preparation, planting, management, and the ecological principles that guide successful meadow establishment, along with realistic expectations for how these landscapes evolve over time.

Registration link coming soon.

All Native Plant Growers Sale with Oakland Farm Trees, Dropseed Nursery, ExtraFlora, Joy of Natives, Pennyrile Botanics, & Ironweed Nursery all together.

Celebrate the trees throughout Lexington with friends and neighbors to grow a healthier community. Enjoy the trees and green spaces throughout our area by participating in tree plantings, walks, tours, hikes, educational programs, and more. Most of the events and programs are free and include all ages, interests, and abilities. 

It’s a week-long celebration dedicated to enhancing and appreciating Lexington’s tree canopy. made possible by a range of groups and individuals throughout Fayette County. Tree Week Lexington is a community effort!

A community event with support from Wild Ones
No Wild Ones meeting is scheduled for October

For a full list of Tree Week events, click to visit this website

Let’s meet under the trees to read some poetry. Bring your favorite tree poem, or a brief tree story, or a meditation about trees, and read it to your fellow tree lovers. Your selection may be your own composition, or it may be something written by another person. But please, name your author. No texts written by AI or “improved” by AI! We want to honor the human spirit together with our trees. Your reading should be no longer than three minutes. If you can’t think of anything you want to read, come to listen, enjoy the refreshments, and admire the many mature trees in the urban garden where we are meeting.

Participants must walk on an unpaved surface for about 50 yards. Host Beate Popkin. Event sponsored by Wild Ones.

Bats are among the most important and misunderstood wildlife in our communities. Join experts from Bat Conservation International to explore how native plants, healthy insect populations, and thoughtful landscape design can help support bats. Learn about the ecological role of bats and discover practical ways to create habitat for North America's night flyers right in your own backyard.

Plant taxonomy is the branch of botany dedicated to the scientific identification, description, nomenclature, and classification of plants. It organizes the estimated 390,000 known plant species into a hierarchical system based on shared characteristics. Ann Witherington, a Lexington Wild Ones member, will explain Plant Taxonomy to us gardeners—the naming of straight species, cultivars/nativars, and hybrids. She will cover classification systems especially the 'new' APG system and present a fun 'quiz': The use and misuse of plant names!

Ann has a master’s degree from Northeastern University in botany with a major in plant taxonomy. She taught biology at Asbury University for 20 years and designed for her students a demonstration garden in her yard labeling all her plants both latin and common names.

Zoe Evans, rewilding coach and VP of Partnerships & Programs at Wildr shares a practical, science-informed framework for evaluating a home landscape, identifying its greatest habitat opportunities, and choosing actions that support more plants, insects, birds, and other wildlife.

Registration link coming soon.

No yard required. Learn how native plants can turn patios, balconies, containers, and other small spaces into meaningful habitat for pollinators and other wildlife. This practical panel will cover plant selection, container design, seasonal care, and realistic ways to support biodiversity in limited spaces.

Registration link coming soon.

Birds depend on healthy, connected habitats for food, shelter, nesting, and migration support. Join experts from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to explore how native plants and thoughtful landscape choices can support birdlife at home. Learn how gardens, yards, and community spaces can provide the insects, seeds, berries, cover, and habitat structure birds need throughout the year.

Registration link coming soon. 

Monarch butterflies depend on a network of habitats stretching across North America, and home landscapes can play an important role in their survival. Join experts from Monarch Joint Venture to explore the science behind monarch conservation, including the importance of milkweed, nectar resources, and regionally appropriate habitat. Learn practical ways to support monarchs through native landscaping and help sustain one of the world's most remarkable migrations.
 

Registration link coming soon.