Events

Members can look forward to Member to Member Garden Yard Tours throughout the growing season!

Member-to-Member (M2M) yard visits (aka Show Me-Tell Me) allow members to share experiences, ideas, and challenges with maintaining native plants in our landscapes. These tours help members & invited guests to learn about different natives and enjoy conversations with other native plant enthusiasts.

Dates and locations for the M2M yard tours will be shared privately with Wild Ones Wayne County, Michigan members, and their guests as they are scheduled throughout the year. 

PLEASE NOTE: While our technology required a (false) date to be entered for this event, the actual dates, times, & locations will be sent via email.

NATIVE PLANT EXPO & MARKETPLACE

Washtenaw County Conservation District and the Washtenaw County Water Resources Commissioner's Office work together to coordinate native plant sales and an AMAZING Native Plant Expo each year. 

The Native Plant Expo & Marketplace hosts several companies specializing in native plants and seeds as well as landscaping companies and non-profit organizations focused on native plant landscapes. There will be ample opportunity to purchase a wide variety of additional plants, seeds and services. The event offers both pre-ordered and day-of sales. 

Plant Sales: 

2024 Spring Tree & Shrub Sale

PRE-SALE PERIOD: 
Store Opens (Pre-Order): January 2
Paper Forms Deadline: February 19
Online Store Deadline: March 18
PICK-UP DATES: 
Friday, April 26, 1p.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 27, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.

PICK-UP LOCATION: 
Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds
5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48103
(3 miles south of I-94, Exit #175).  

2024 Spring Native Plant Pre-sale! 

Pre-sale Opens: February 19, 2024
Paper Forms Deadline: March 11, 2024
Online Store Deadline: March 18, 2024

Michigensee Natives, located in Plymouth Township is hosting an exclusive evening open house for Wild Ones members and their guests. Located on the grounds of Graye’s Greenhouse, 8820 N. Lilley Road, Plymouth, MI., members will have the opportunity to hear about the development of this new business see the new location, and also purchase plants.  Michiganense Natives is the first all-native retail store in Wayne County Adam Huttenstine, a graduate of MSU with 15 years experience in supply chain management brings his extensive native plant knowledge to make Michigan's native plants even more readily available to customers. The Michiganessee Natives website offers information about species lists, seeds, plants, and garden kits as well as installation and maintenance services.  http://www.michiganensenatives.com The public grand opening

Details to come

Hosted by Wild Ones Wayne County, Michigan

Speaker: Stefanie Steele, Pollinator Conservation Specialist, Xerces Society

Summary: Join Stefanie Steele, Xerces Society pollinator conservation specialist for urban and small farms in the Greater Detroit, MI region, for a presentation on native bee awareness. Urban landscapes are diverse and can provide unique habitat opportunities for a diversity of pollinators and other beneficial invertebrates. Come learn about the diversity of native bees in our area, their habitat and nesting requirements, and some of the most important native plants to support them.

We are in the process of coordinating this program to be a hydrid online AND in-person event. Due to limited seating, registration will be required for an in-person event. Wild Ones Wayne County members will have the opportunity to register early. Click here if you would like to JOIN Wild Ones Wayne County.

Please check back later for updated details!

Elmer has a beautiful small, but mighty garden filled with art and gorgeous colorful plants! This event is a being coordinated by the Southeast Michigan Butterfly Association (SEMBA). They have two gardens open to invited guests on this day with overlapping times for visitors to attend.

We are sharing this event with Wild Ones Wayne County members with SEMBA's permission.

To attend please email: [email protected] by July 6th. The address for this garden walk will be shared with members when it is made available (by July).

Please visit the SEMBA website to learn more about their wonderful group: https://www.sembabutterfly.org/

Brenda Dziedzic is the author of Raising Butterflies and Moths in the Garden. Brenda's small yard, hosts hundreds of butterflies and moth in her beautiful low maintenance garden each year.

This event is a being coordinated by the Southeast Michigan Butterfly Association (SEMBA). They have two gardens open to invited guests on this day with overlapping times for visitors to attend.

We are sharing this event with Wild Ones Wayne County members with SEMBA's permission.

To attend please email: [email protected] by July 6th. The address for this garden walk will be shared with members when it is made available (by July).

Please visit the SEMBA website to learn more about their wonderful group: https://www.sembabutterfly.org/

Meredith Simpson, a volunteer with Oudolf Garden Detroit has very graciously agreed to lead Wild Ones chapters, Wayne County, North Oakland, and Ann Arbor on a tour of Ouldolf Garden Detroit.

The Ouldolf Garden project started back in 2015 as new idea by the Garden Club of Michigan, in an effort to create a significant impact in the city. Garden club members Maura Campbell, Jean Hudson and Richard Thomas then sent a “love letter from Detroit” to Piet Oudolf, and he ultimately accepted the commission. Fundraising began immediately, and fast forward several years…the Belle Isle garden was designed, installed and planted by the fall of 2020. This year, 2024, will be the forth full growing season for Oudolf Garden Detroit.

Presentation: "Plant this, not that: Native replacements for common landscaping plants"

You can picture "The American Dream" suburban landscaping with perfectly manicured lawns and neat hedges. We see it everywhere, but what is the impact? Join in this discussion on the impacts of traditional lawns and invasive/non-native suburban landscaping plants and learn some of the native plant alternatives. Expect a short presentation followed by an opportunity to collaborate and share your ideas on your favorite native plants and where they have worked well for you.

Presenter: Derek Shaffer, WOWC co-founder, Membership Chair

Derek is a self-proclaimed "gardening addict" from Livonia with a new passion for reverting suburban landscapes to native plants. He is currently serving as the WOWC Membership Chair, but his day job is as a software engineer at Ford Motor Company where he has been working since graduating from the University of Michigan College of Engineering in 2015. He began his native landscaping journey recently in 2022 with a small home gardening project that got him hooked on becoming more knowledgeable about native plants. He joined Wild Ones last fall to co-found the Wayne County Michigan Chapter with hopes to influence the community, businesses, churches and municipalities to reduce mowed spaces and plant natives.

Wild Ones Wayne County (Seedling)  Bi-monthly Chapter Meeting

Speaker TBD

(more details to follow)