Colorado Native Plants | Denver Native Plant Swap & Giveaway

| Native Plant & Seed Swaps

What a fabulous turnout for the Third Annual Denver Native Plant Swap & Giveaway! Attendees had over 4,500 regionally native plants to choose from across a wide range of species. Thanks for all of your native plant donations.

The magic of this swap is that one year you may “take some” and then, as your native plant garden matures, you may “donate some – and still take some!” Now, you can look forward to the rewards of incorporating more regional native plants into your landscape to build habitat and support local ecosystems.

Three women with boxes of Colorado native plants they picked out at the Denver Plant Swap & Giveaway.
Nice haul!
Wild Ones Front Range board member Deb Lebow all educates about native plant gardening
Wild Ones Front Range Vice President Deb Lebow Aal at the Wild Ones booth
great turnout of people for the swap exploring all of the native plant species available, including trees, shrubs, cacti, perennials, annuals, wildflowers, grasses
People exploring all the native species available at the Denver Plant Swap & Giveaway
Wild ones front range board member rob greer at the swap.
Wild Ones Front Range Board Member Rob Greer
Young woman is beaming after picking out native plants at the swap.
Everyone was beaming after carefully selecting native plants for their gardens.
Father with a box of Colorado native plants from the swap with his young children looking on with curiousity.
It was great to see so many kids at the swap already learning about the benefits of native plants.

A HUGE thank you to the 37 volunteers covering 47 shifts to set up, take in plant donations, check people in, keep plants inventory watered and organized, clean up post-event. WHEW! The volunteers were essential in making sure the swap ran so smoothly. Please consider helping at this fall’s seed swap or next year’s plant swap. Not only is it FUN, but our volunteers are amazing native plant people who you can get to know better and learn from!

Some of the many people who volunteered for this year's Denver Native Plant Swap & Giveaway. We couldn't have done it without you!
Some of the many people who volunteered for this year’s Denver Native Plant Swap & Giveaway. We couldn’t have done it without you!

This year’s event was co-organized by the People and Pollinators Action Network, the Colorado Native Plant Society and Wild Ones Front Range. The fabulous venue was provided by Gretchen Roberts of EarthLinks. Thanks to you all!

Peggy Hanson, Wild Ones Front Range Treasurer & Swaps Chair, with Joyce Kennedy, Executive Director of the People and Pollinators Action Network.
Rahman Minhas of the Colorado Native Plant Society
Gretchen Roberts, Deputy Director at EarthLinks

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