Native Plant Events

All current members of Wild Ones Greater Baltimore are welcome to attend our monthly board meetings.

Email [email protected] to request the Zoom link.

Our upcoming webinar with Basil Camu explores practical, evidence based ways to heal suburban and urban landscapes by working with trees, soil, and natural systems, drawing on real world practices from Leaf & Limb and community centered models for restoring life where we live, work, and play.!  

Winter is the perfect time to plan your garden, and spring will be here soon! Join us to ask questions, share your successes and meet other native plant garden enthusiasts.

We welcome gardeners at all stages of native gardening from beginner to expert as we share our knowledge and experiences with each other.

Everyone is welcome! You do not need to be a Wild Ones member to attend.

All current members of Wild Ones Greater Baltimore are welcome to attend our monthly board meetings.

Email [email protected] to request the Zoom link.

Join Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, for a candid Wild Ones National Webinar examining how inherited garden aesthetics shape native plant landscapes. Drawing on field experience and real ecology, Joey challenges tidy design norms and explores why dense, irregular plant communities are often the most resilient and ecologically sound.

This is the first of 3 tours of this property in 2026 giving us an opportunity to see the garden change throughout the seasons. Be on the lookout for additional tours on July 11th and October 3rd.

This woodland residential garden is in the busier area of Howard county, but the property is adjacent to a county recognized green space/wildlife corridor featuring many naturally occurring native spring ephemerals like Mayapples, Jack in the Pulpits and Spring Beauties. This garden, which has been certified as a Demonstration Garden under Howard County’s BayWise program and is also Bee City Certified by the County, features a 100+ years old specimen white oak, a professionally installed raingarden, a permeable parking pad, a native “lawn” with no turf grass anywhere on the property, a pond for the aquatic wildlife, and flagstone walkways snaking through the entire yard. It is also recognized by National Wildlife Federation as a Wildlife Habitat and serves as a Monarch Waystation with its diversity of native plants that sustain the bees, butterflies, moths, etc. Among the prized natives, there also are plenty of non-natives that the owners continue to eradicate.

**Members receive advanced access to register for events with limited space. If space is available, registration will open to the public 4-5 weeks prior to the event.

Join us on your lunchbreak to learn about NeighborSpace: its work, current programs and projects, and how to get involved.

NeighborSpace’s mission is to enhance the livability of Baltimore County’s urban communities by protecting, restoring, and stewarding land for small parks, gardens, trails, and natural areas. NeighborSpace conserves 100 acres at 21 sites. They work with community partners to actively maintain and program these sites.

This event will be followed by a site visit on May 30th at 1pm. Attendees to the Zoom Lunch and Learn will have the first opportunity to register for the in-person site visit. Spaces are limited.

Join us on May 2 for Grow Wild’s Spring Fling at the Harford Equestrian Center in Bel Air! Visitors are invited to collect free wildflower seeds, tree seedlings, and native plant plugs, and to learn more about gardening from professional growers, ecologists, and Harford County Master Gardeners.

The event will also feature children’s crafts and activities in the Sprouts area, making it a fun and educational outing for the whole family.

This event is hosted by Harford Land Trust. 

Wild Ones Greater Baltimore will be in attendance with an information table.  Stop by and see us!

Join fellow native plant enthusiasts at the Wild Ones Greater Baltimore 4th annual native plant share in Owings Mills! Look over plants, talk about native gardening, and get to know others who share a passion for gardening with native plants.

All are welcome—even if you are new to native gardening and do not have anything to share yet! We are happy to help new gardeners get started.

Register for additional details and guidelines for sharing plants.

Join us for a guided tour of Powhatan Park and Carroll Watkins Park, two of NeighborSpace’s 21 conservation sites, with Phyllis Joris. Learn about the transformation of these vacant lots into beautiful community parks and future plans for an additional pollinator garden.

NeighborSpace’s mission is to enhance the livability of Baltimore County’s urban communities by protecting, restoring, and stewarding land for small parks, gardens, trails, and natural areas. NeighborSpace conserves 100 acres at 21 sites. They work with community partners to actively maintain and program these sites.

Attendees to the NeighborSpace Lunch and Learn held on April 29th will have the first opportunity to register for the in-person site visit. Registration will open to the general public, if spaces are available in early May. 

This beautiful property has had a steady transformation from a conventional yard full of non-native plants to a stunning habitat that supports birds, bugs and butterflies. The removal of turf grass, English ivy and pachysandra from a portion of the front yard made way for a 'mini-meadow' of native grasses, sedges and flowering perennials. In the rear, native plants that provide cover, berries, and seeds for birds and host plants for Monarch butterflies have been slowly added to supplement existing non-natives.

**Members receive advanced access to register for events with limited space. If space is available, registration will open to the public 4-5 weeks prior to the event.

This garden was created to be a sanctuary for wildlife. It is intensively planted with mostly native plants that provide food and shelter for wildlife. Care with the design ensures a garden that is pleasing to look at and provides an opportunity to relax and enjoy watching the sounds and sights of nature. There are a variety of features to explore including a partly native, low-mow lawn, numerous fruit trees, a vegetable garden, a pond and waterfall, a raingarden, a bluestone patio, and many (about 190) species of native plants including trees, shrubs, perennials, grasses, biennials, and annuals.

This is a guided tour offered at 2 times (9:30 to 11:00am or 11:00am to 12:30pm). Choose your time slot during registration.

**Members receive advanced access to register for events with limited space. If space is available, registration will open to the public 4-5 weeks prior to the event.

This is the second of 3 tours of this property in 2026 giving us an opportunity to see the garden change throughout the seasons. Be on the lookout for the final tour October 3rd.

This woodland residential garden is in the busier area of Howard county, but the property is adjacent to a county recognized green space/wildlife corridor featuring many naturally occurring native spring ephemerals like Mayapples, Jack in the Pulpits and Spring Beauties. This garden, which has been certified as a Demonstration Garden under Howard County’s BayWise program and is also Bee City Certified by the County, features a 100+ years old specimen white oak, a professionally installed raingarden, a permeable parking pad, a native “lawn” with no turf grass anywhere on the property, a pond for the aquatic wildlife, and flagstone walkways snaking through the entire yard. It is also recognized by National Wildlife Federation as a Wildlife Habitat and serves as a Monarch Waystation with its diversity of native plants that sustain the bees, butterflies, moths, etc. Among the prized natives, there also are plenty of non-natives that the owners continue to eradicate.

**Members receive advanced access to register for events with limited space. If space is available, registration will open to the public 4-5 weeks prior to the event.

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon! 

Details coming soon!