The mission of PLANT IT WILD is to foster greater awareness and appreciation of the fragile natural environment of our region. Through direct efforts we work to preserve, protect, and promote the natural beauty of the area and its plant communities.
We promote the use of native plant species by producing educational materials available at our meetings, booths, presentations, and through our website. Programs are offered from May through September featuring a wide array of speakers and topics on native plants.
Not sure which plants are native to Michigan? Click Here to view a list of some of our favorite plants from this beautiful state.
Click Here to join Plant It Wild and help us preserve, protect, and promote the natural beauty of the area and its plant communities.
Click Here to read more about who we are and how we strive to help the community be a more natural and beautiful place.
A little known fact about Manistee Conservation District! Enjoy watching the eagle soar.
WAIT! I have seen mourning cloak butterflies and woolly bear caterpillars emerge from leaf litter... the are only two of MANY. Let the critters live!Please resist, give the important pollinators an extra chance
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Staying home? Remove some lawn. Replace with native plants. SAVE THE WORLD."A 2005 NASA funded study recorded 49,000 square miles of turfgrass the the continental U.S., making it the predominant crop of our country, practically devoid of benefit to pollinators. While some may see that as a horrifying statistic, others see it as an immense opportunity for homeowners to make sizable impacts on their local ecosystem.
In 2017, Kelsey Kopec and Lori Ann Burd published 'Pollinators in Peril: A systematic status review of North American and Hawaiian native bees' for the Center for Biological Diversity. The publication, which pored over the current conservation status and all available research on 1,437 species of native bees, found that more than half of the species were in decline — with some 1 in 4 species at risk of extinction. The findings mirror the growing body of evidence that pollinators everywhere are in decline."
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(Photo: Xerces Society / Sara Morris)
Checked out the yard. Can't believe what is already emerging... APRIL 5! Leeks, rhubarb, foam flower, AND Hepatica. WOWZER.