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The next informal chat meeting will be Monday, February 14, 2022 at 7 PM CST. Happy Valentine's Day! This time we will begin by discussing pollen specialist bees and the native plants specific to Tennessee that support them. Take a look at the new resource page about this on our chapter website if you like. After that discussion, we can move on to whatever native plant topics come up. Zoom information.
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Our next monthly chapter meeting will be on Monday, February 28, 2022. The Zoom meeting will open at 6:30 PM CST with the program beginning at 7 PM. Our featured speaker will be Dr. Eleanor Lopez who has a Doctorate in Plant Medicine from the University of Florida. She is the lead diagnostician at the University of Tennessee Extension plant pest diagnostic lab in Nashville and is a adjunct professor in the Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology at UT Knoxville. Her topic will be
Native Plants and Native People:
the necessity of including the human element
of environmental conservation
Please see the event page for this meeting for additional details.
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Sunday, February 13, is the last day to register for Neil Diboll's national webinar
Genetic Diversity and Plant Preservation
on February 16 at 6 PM CST. Information and registration is here.
The Webinars tab on the national website contains addition on past and future webinars, including recordings. |
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Tennessee Native Plant Society
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The TNPS Seminar series continues with a presentation by Darel Hess on Tuesday, February 15, at 6:30 PM CST. Darel's topic will be Wildflower Photography. Many of Darel's photos are featured on the Tennessee Herbarium website. To see a list of future presentation and recordings of past ones, please visit their Seminar page. The meeting will be via Zoom at this link.
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Nashville Lawn & Garden Show
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This 4-day show will be Thursday through Sunday, March 3-6. Our chapter is helping staff a double booth representing Wild Ones Middle Tennessee Chapter, Tennessee Native Plant Society, Tennessee Invasive Plant Council, and the Tennessee Naturalist Program. Additional volunteers are needed to staff the booth. Please contact Margie Hunter and let her know what times you are available if you are associated with at least one of the represented groups. Please visit the show's website for additional details, including the schedule of presentations in the Lecture Hall.
Of special note is Margie Hunter's presentation Saturday afternoon at 1 PM on Beyond Aesthetics: Garden As If Life Depends On It in the Lecture Hall. Richard Hitt will also serve as a panelist for a taping of Volunteer Gardener hosted by Troy Marden and member Julie Berbiglia on Friday, March 4, 2:30 - 4:30 in the lecture hall.
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Perennial Plant Society Meeting
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Richard Hitt will be the speaker at the next meeting of the Perennial Plant Society of Middle Tennessee. His topic will be Native Plants in the Landscape ... and the Life They Support. This will be an updated version of the presentation he gave at the our January 2021 meeting of Wild Ones. Registration for this Zoom presentation is required and is available on the PPS Calendar page.
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Join the other 105 members of the Wild Ones Middle Tennessee chapter along with the over 5,700 national members to demonstrate your support for using native plants and employing sustainable landscaping practices. Collectively, we all work toward
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Member benefits include:
- Access to the current electronic issue of the quarterly Wild Ones Journal
- Invitations to workshops, garden tours, seed exchanges, plants sales, and stewardship project
- Discounts for partner educational webinars such as NDAL, etc. and Wild Ones chapter programs like native plant sale and other paid events
- Participation in an annual national photo contest
- Access to the Wild Ones Member Center for learning resources
- Participation in Wild for Monarchs and Native Garden recognition programs
- Involvement in citizen science and networking with conservation partners
- Receiving Wild Ones National e-Newsletters
- Invitation to Wild Ones' private Facebook discussion group and the national Wild Ones Annual Member Meeting
- Networking opportunities and camaraderie with like-minded people who care about native plants and our planet
Member contributions help facilitate the Wild Ones mission of restoring native landscapes by allowing us to:
- Provide free, educational resources and learning opportunities that are open to the public from respected experts like Wild Ones Honorary Directors Doug Tallamy, Neil Diboll, Heather Holm and Donna VanBuecken
- Support the efforts of over 60 local Wild Ones chapters in 20 states
- Publish a quarterly, award-winning, online journal featuring current native plant information and resources
- Share free, professionally-designed native garden templates for multiple regions in the United States.
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