Next Steps for Nature: Free Webinar on October 16, 2025

Bright orange butterfly with black veins, a black border with white spots and black body has its wings outstretched as it perches on a cluster of small orange florets of a butterfly weed milkweed

Mark your calendar!

Next Steps for Nature, a free webinar featuring the renowned Dr. Doug Tallamy and hosted by Wild Ones, will be held Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 7:00PM Eastern Daylight Time.

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Takeaways from Plant this, Not that: Native Replacements for Common Landscaping Plants

Cover slide from presentation, with photos of two plants: golden-yellow leaved Lindera benzoin, a native shrub to choose. And a red-leaved Euonymus alata (Burning Bush), an invasive plant to avoid planting.

At the September 2024 Wild Ones Wayne County (WOWC) event, chapter co-founder and membership chairperson Derek Shaffer discussed native plant alternatives to planting common landscaping plants in your garden.

And why everyone should consider planting native plants to increase plant diversity, provide wildlife with the food and shelter they need, as well as reduce mowing and watering.

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