Seeds and Chat ~ Laugh and Chaff A summer social is a fun way for Wild Ones Greater Baton Rouge chapter members to get out of the Louisiana heat and prepare for the fall seed swap. On September 6, 2026, 15 members and two guests met at the library and brought native seeds from their […] Continue reading "Seed Sort Social"
Despite heavy showers off and on all day at the Feliciana Wildflower Festival on June 6, Wild Ones GBR volunteers Allison Gianelloni, Ky Burke, and Joan Chiasson spoke to a fairly steady stream of visitors. There were families, couples, and individuals interested in native plants, and our graphics display by Janine Kharey on pollinators and their host plants. […] Continue reading "Showers & Flowers: Feliciana Wildflower Festival"
Our members are creative and passionate about their native gardens, and this spring we attended three yards that focus on completely unique goals: Feeding winter hummingbirds, beekeeping, and a new native plant nursery. Everyone learned about the plants, the wildlife they support, artistry, and the trials and tribulations of these ventures. Continue reading "Inspiration: Spring Yard Visits"
The tree planting season in Baton Rouge is in January so trees will have time to get established before the summer heat. This is why Arbor Day is so early here! Wild Ones volunteers got bundled up and headed out to the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens for the 15th annual Arbor Day event. Hundreds of […] Continue reading "Baton Rouge Arbor Day Celebration 2026: A Wild Success"
The Plaquemine Garden Club (PGC) was interested in learning about native plants, and Heather Blanchard invited her native plant-loving friends to speak at the PGC meeting, with whom she collaborated on presentation content for a memorable and informative meeting on November 11, 2025 at the Plaquemine KC building. As the Wild Ones Greater Baton Rouge […] Continue reading "Plaquemine Garden Club Explores Gardening with Native Plants"
On November 8, 2025, the Baton Rouge community came together in a big way to install a brand-new, large-scale native plant pollinator garden in the front of the main branch of the East Baton Rouge Public Library (EBRPL). “The idea bloomed after seeing community interest and engagement with other gardening programs, such as Seed Swaps […] Continue reading "The Baton Rouge Community Pitches in to Re-Wild the Main Library"
The Greater Baton Rouge chapter of Wild Ones hosted their 4th annual seed swap October 19, 2025 at the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens. Members look forward to this event all year because it is a wonderful opportunity to swap seeds native to our area and to donate local ecotype seeds to the Wild Ones seed […] Continue reading "Seed Swap 2025!"
The Wild Ones Greater Baton Rouge chapter hosted a dozen eager members for a seed cleaning social to process seeds for the chapter’s seed library and seed packets, the East Baton Rouge Public Library seed libraries, and for the upcoming seed swap on October 19th. Our members learned different techniques for releasing seeds from the […] Continue reading "Seed Cleaning Social"
by Joan Chiasson Did you know that Louisiana was once home to about 2.5 million acres of tall grass prairie? Today, less than 1% remains of this critically imperiled ecosystem. I had the chance to see the first Baton Rouge screening of Louisiana Grass Roots, a short documentary about it (the “Cajun Prairie”) today at […] Continue reading "Grass Roots"
Summer stroll at Burden The Wild Ones Greater Baton Rouge chapter held its first Wildflower Walk today along the trails of the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden. The blooms that were putting on a particularly flashy show were in LSU purple and gold, like the Tall Ironweed that was being visited by bumblebees, and […] Continue reading "Wild Ones Wildflower Walk"