Wild Ones Madison

09/01/2026

Join us this Thursday, September 3, from 6-8 pm, for a tour of Frank’s well-established garden, which features a mix of shade and semi-shade areas with savanna and woodland species.Expect a profusion of asters and goldenrods blooming in September!

Please register ahead before 5 pm Wednesday:
https://forms.gle/1P67GribuV5n6Y4n

This is a members-only event…one of the many perks of joining Wild Ones Madison! Become a member of the Madison chapter by signing up here: https://members.wildones.org/join/

08/14/2026

Lost plants to drought? Want to add wildflowers to bloom across the season? Or native birch, oak and serviceberry?🌳🍁🐦🌻🐛🦋🐝Our native plant sale's got you covered!

We're teaming up with Wild Ones Madison to bring to Madison premier native trees, shrubs and perennials grown from Johnson's Nursery in the Milwaukee area.

Online ordering is now open through Sept. 15. Your plants are delivered to our near east side location, 3030 Gateway Place, for pick up on Friday, Sept. 25, 12-4 p.m.

More information about the sale, and a link to order here: https://madison.wildones.org/treeandshrubsale/

Get ready to enjoy fantastic, landscape ready plants -- i.e. bigger, mostly 2nd year-plants-- and benefit Wild Ones Madison at the same time. 15% of sales are returned to this volunteer-run nonprofit to promote native landscaping to preserve biodiversity, work our birds benefit from greatly!

08/14/2026

We need five volunteers this Sunday to help prep a native garden at Three Gaits in Stoughton, a nonprofit that provides equine-assisted activities and therapy for people with physical, emotional, and intellectual disabilities.

And at the moment, we still have five openings. So this is not one of those volunteer opportunities where you can safely assume somebody else has it covered. Somebody else has apparently made the same assumption. 🙂

Garden prep may not be the glamorous end of native plant gardening, but it’s the part that makes everything that comes afterward possible—and five people working together can get an astonishing amount done.

If you’ve been thinking, “I should volunteer for something one of these days,” I have excellent news: one of these days is Sunday.

Sign up here: https://signup.com/go/HfxoEpY

08/09/2026

VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED!

On August 16th, from 1-3 pm, Wild Ones Madison will help Three Gaits prepare a site for a new native garden.

On September 20th, from 8 am - noon, we‘ll help plant it.

We need five volunteers each day.

Visit https://signup.com/go/pAdHaBi to sign up.

Three Gaits is a non-profit therapeutic horsemanship center in Stoughton, Wisconsin, that provides equine-assisted activities and therapies for children, youth, and adults with physical, emotional, or intellectual disabilities. Learn more at three-gaits.org

Note: SignUp does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually: [email protected]

08/05/2026

THE INCREDIBLE CATERPILLAR is coming Saturday August 8, at 11AM at the Sequoya public library. Doors open at 10:30am.

All Wild Ones members are invited and encouraged to bring as many friends as possible!

Check out the trailer:

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07/30/2026

GARDEN TOUR - Sunday, August 2, 10 am - 2 pm

Join us for an open house at John’s! It is planted densely in a native prairie style rather than a traditional landscaped look. Parts of the garden range from full sun to shade with appropriate plants for each area, more than 75 species in total.

Please register by 5 pm Saturday, August 1:
https://forms.gle/M5fooAZgCNn9H7nB7

This is a members-only event. Not a member yet? You can join the Madison Wild Ones chapter by signing up at the national Wild Ones website: wildones.org

07/13/2026

Amy's garden open house has been rescheduled for September, but you can still join us for an open house on Saturday, July 18th at Liza's!

7:30am-10:30am on the East side. This is a garden in its second year so plants are still getting established. Expect to see drifts of coreopsis, milkweed, and pearly everlasting currently in bloom, and lots of insect life! We'll serve iced tea on the deck and, if it's sunny, make cyanotypes with things gathered from the garden (while supplies last)!

Register before 5:00pm on July 17th:
https://forms.gle/VWMFDiy6ww7SCS8Z9

These tours are one of the many perks to being a Wild Ones member. Not a member yet? Sign up here: https://members.wildones.org/join/

07/09/2026

Our next garden tour is at Judy Cardin‘s, this FRIDAY, JULY 10TH, 10 am - 1 pm. Note that the date has recently been changed.

Registration is required. Find the registration form on our event calendar: https://madison.wildones.org/chapter-events/

From Judy:
Our yard has over 350 species of native plants, and is buzzing with pollinators in July. Our front yard is sun/part sun, planted with nearly all native plants, and has grass walking aisles. Our back yard is a woodland primarily native habitat, with many native flowers, ferns, grasses, sedges, shrubs and trees and chipped walking trails.

I will have cookies and cherry lemonade. We can talk about bees, pollinators and native habitat while having cookies on my back patio.

06/16/2026

Join us for the next in our series of garden tours on Tuesday, June 23rd at 7 pm at Athena’s east side yard, featuring a magical spring woodland, a rain garden, prairie plantings, and a 300+ year old bur oak.

These tours are limited to members only. Now would be a great time to join if you aren’t already a member of Wild Ones Madison!

Register for the tour:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1WxQIiQh3BxD0i9K1NDB75ZjyuOYbGtdWCQBGhUNwatk/edit?usp=drivesdk

Visit our website to become a member: madison.wildones.org