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Plant of the Week: Swiss Chard. This beautiful, nutritious, easy to grow, vegetable is still producing in Zone 6b after a “last” harvest cutting two weeks ago and hard freezes. Cover these plants to extend the season thru winter. The perfect holiday or birthday gift for the person who has everything: Adopt a Regal Fritillary … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

Plant of the Week: American Beautyberry Walk off your Thanksgiving dinner. Take a drive and hike at one of Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Prairies. Want a front yard native landscape makeover? Enter Grow Native! and Wild Ones St. Louis Chapter 2024 Landscape Challenge January 15th Deadline for Missouri community gardens, conservation groups, parks, schools to apply … Continue reading This Week In Gardening & Nature →

Updates have been made to this blog’s Missouri & St. Louis City Candidate Age & Residency Qualifications page. Where to file, nominating petitions, Presidential Caucus/Primary, more, have been added. Filing Begins February 27, 2024 and ends March 26, 2024 for the following offices affecting St. Louis City… St. Louis City County Offices: Circuit Attorney, Sheriff, and … Continue reading Candidate Qualifications Page Updated →

Plant of the Week: Aromatic Aster Fall Tree Color Reports: Missouri (Peak color in SE Mo Bootheel, past peak elsewhere) and Illinois Missouri Prairie Foundation is selling “Leave The Leaves” signs for $20 each It’s never too early to start planning your 2024 Garden: Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar Good Reads — Gardening by Month: … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

Plant of the Week: Snapdragons Seed St. Louis Shallot Sale. Order Online by Thursday for Saturday, October 14th Pick Up at Carriage House, 3815 Bell Ave. Shallot Grow Guide Fall Tree Color Reports: Missouri and Illinois Good Reads — Gardening by Month: October Tips & Tasks, Pests & Problems (Missouri Botanical Garden) October Garden To … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

Plant of the Week: Persimmon Tree Tree Specific Events — 3-6 pm Friday, October 6th, Forest ReLeaf Native Tree Giveaway at Scott Joplin House, 2700 Samuel Shepard Dr 1 pm October 21st Missouri Prairie Foundation Members Field Trip: Bellefontaine Cemetery Fall Tree Walk Nonprofits: Order Free 3 Gallon Native Trees & Shrubs from Forest ReLeaf and Project … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

Plant of the Week: Black Walnut, Missouri’s Official State Nut Tree Specific Events — Fall Color Reports: Missouri and Illinois 6 pm September 28th Kiener Plaza Tree Walk & Talk with Forest ReLeaf 3-6 pm October 6th Forest ReLeaf Native Tree Giveaway at Scott Joplin House, 2700 Samuel Shepard Dr 1 pm October 21st Missouri Prairie … Continue reading This Week In Gardening & Nature →

Lots of newly baptized environmental activists in the dark red, conservative Southwest Missouri communities of Pomme de Terre Lake, cattle ranching and water tourism country. I’m still trying to sort out a month’s worth of news stories, flyers, meeting recollections, a petition drive* and letter writing campaigns, rumors of trucks seeking additional farmland to dump … Continue reading Pomme de Terre Fights Back: Signs →

Nonprofits: Order Free 3 Gallon Native Trees & Shrubs from Forest ReLeaf and Project CommuniTree Order Tree Seedlings now for shipping in February from Missouri Conservation Department 3:30-6:30 pm September 21st, Grow Native! Native Plant Sale at St. Louis Community College @ Meramec. Vendors include Forest ReLeaf of Missouri, Forrest Keeling, Ozark Soul, Missouri Wildflowers … Continue reading Upcoming St. Louis Area Plant Sales →

Plant of the Week: Blue Sage Order Brightside St. Louis Daffodil & Tulip Bulbs Online for October Pick Up: Carlton Daffodil Bulbs 30 @ $15; Midwest Mix Daffodil Bulbs 30 @ $17; Brightside Red Tulip Bulbs 30 @ $17; Pink Impressions Tulip Bulb: 30 @ $17 St. Louis Area Upcoming Plant Sales List– Native Plants, … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

9 am to 5 pm Sunday, August 13th, Greater St. Louis Iris Society Plant Sale @ Missouri Botanical Garden. Average Price $5-$8. Entrance included with Garden Admission. Garden Admission is $6 for St. Louis City and St. Louis County residents on Sundays. Order Brightside St. Louis Daffodil & Tulip Bulbs Online for October Pick Up Download the … Continue reading Upcoming St. Louis Area Plant Sales →

Plant of the Week: Obedient Plant (False Dragonhead) New St. Louis Area Upcoming Plant Sales List– Vegetable Seedlings, Native Plants, Pretties Order Brightside St. Louis Daffodil & Tulip Bulbs Online for October Pick Up Download the Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar Gardening by Month from Missouri Botanical Garden: August Tips & Tasks, Pests & Problems … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

Plant of the Week: Giant Hyssop New St. Louis Area Upcoming Plant Sales List– Vegetable Seedlings, Native Plants, Pretties Gardening by Month from Missouri Botanical Garden: August Tips & Tasks, Pests & Problems August Garden To Dos from P. Allen Smith Order Brightside St. Louis Daffodil & Tulip Bulbs Online for October Pick Up Download … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

(Corrected) 9 am to 5 pm Saturday & Sunday, August 12th & 13th, Greater St. Louis Iris Society Plant Sale @ Missouri Botanical Garden. Average Price $5-$8. Entrance included with Garden Admission. Garden Admission is FREE to St. Louis City and St. Louis County residents 7 am to Noon Wednesdays and Saturdays. Order Brightside St. Louis Daffodil … Continue reading Upcoming St. Louis Area Plant Sales →

Plant of the Week: Joe Pye Weed Download the Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar Hey, St. Louisans: Need seeds for planting now and Fall/Winter harvesting? Check out the 50 Cent to $1 deals at Seed St. Louis Tips on Drying FlowersWhat an hour of gardening does to your body City of St. Louis would like … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

The thing about Spoutible that I don’t like is that you, you, and you, are not on there yet. Spoutible needs St. Louis Twitter. We need you there talking about St. Louis, Missouri, and Illinois- the politics, history, neighborhoods (and the institutions, groups, and small businesses that anchor them), gardening, sportsball, heroes and villains, the … Continue reading So Many Free Features On Spoutible →

Plant of the Week: Brown-Eyed Susans July Gardening Tips from University of Missouri Extension – Outdoor Flowering Plants & Ornamentals, Vegetable Gardening, Fruits and Nuts, Cool-season Lawns, Warm-season Lawns What an hour of gardening does to your body City of St. Louis would like your help watering trees Hey, St. Louisans: Need seeds for planting … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

Last Updated 7/23/2023 We don’t have to worry about former 7th Ward Alder Jack Coatar running for St. Louis City Circuit Attorney in 2024. He will just peddle his former elected office experience and connections at Spencer Fane. Coatar, last year’s defeated (not even close) Board President candidate, who then did not run for Alder … Continue reading STL City Circuit Atty Race: Money & More →

Plant of the Week: Partridge Pea Looking at you, St. Louis City. Boston is having their 27th annual Mayor’s Garden Contest. Prizes! Multiple year winners enter Hall of Fame, can’t enter again but serve as contest judges. The massive fire which destroyed Skate Liborious also destroyed New Roots Urban Farm. All donations to help rebuild … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →

This week in the garden: Transplant- Basil, Melons, Peppers, Parsley, Tomatoes. Seed Outdoors- Basil, Cucumbers, Melons, Squash Plan your 2023 Garden with Seed St. Louis Planting Calendar Plant of the Week: Red Yarrow Achillea millefolium ‘Paprika’  Sign up for Gardening for Wildlife newsletter to enter Garden for Wildlife’s Wildlife Garden drawing Gardening by Month – May – Tips … Continue reading This Week in Gardening & Nature →