Events

Join us to explore three Fort Collins gardens to see how the hosts have incorporated native plants into their landscapes and to learn from their successes and challenges. At the last garden, we will have a member social with light refreshments and a native plant swap. Please consider bringing a food item to share as well as your extra native plant seedlings! You are not required to bring plants to take some home. 

This event is for members of the Wild Ones Front Range chapter. You will be asked to enter your member number after your registration is complete. Click here to look up your member number or to become a new member. You will receive the garden addresses in an email a few days prior to the event. If you are interested in carpooling, please click here to add yourself as a driver or a passenger. 

How do you extend the seasons of your garden?

We will visit the garden at the private home of Jean Morgan in Louisville. Jean has been gardening for longer than all of us, we guarantee it, and her skill, eye, and whimsy have gotten her into countless garden tours over the years. (Really. Do a web search.) The focus of our second of two visits to Jean's garden will be right plant, right place and blooming the whole year. (Jean has flowers blooming ten months of the year.) A bunch of us visited in April and were blown away.  After an hour with Jean, we'll head to Louisville Community Park for a brown bag social (pack a lunch!). Jean's address to be emailed to registrants the week of the crawl.

Discover how ecological landscaping with native plants can make your landscape more resilient and help address the climate crisis. This webinar will highlight practical, evidence-based approaches to designing and maintaining landscapes that build resilience to climate change and support native biodiversity. Join Wild Ones for a free webinar, “EcoBeneficial Landscape Strategies for the Climate Crisis,” featuring environmental horticulturalist and ecological landscape designer Kim Eierman.

Join us for our last social of the year!  We are meeting  at the outdoor Beer Garden so come prepared for the weather.

The evening's conversation will include our successes and challenges of growing native plants, fall planting, and native seed collecting.  

Please bring any seeds you may have already collected.  We are also accepting small glass and plastic containers with lids at this time!

 This event is open to members and nonmembers.

Registration required!

Details coming soon! 

Join us to clean seeds for our seed swap in December.  Information will be added in September about seed donations and a volunteer signup will be included.

We are in need of 6  member volunteers to help collect native plant seeds in the Palmer Lake area.

Please email Sue at [email protected] if you would like to help.

The Pikes Peak Region will be adding a modern twist to  the centuries old tradition of community gatherings such as quilting bees, threshings, and barn raising!

Members will build relationships, make friends, and have fun while collaboratively completing the worthwhile task of cleaning “the seed from the chaff!”

Learn the “how to”  of cleaning native seeds in preparation for our Native Seed Share on November 8, 2025.  

Registration required.

More information coming soon!

Join us to clean seeds for our seed swap in December.  Information will be added in September about seed donations and a volunteer signup will be included.

Join us to clean seeds for our seed swap in December.  Information will be added in September about seed donations and a volunteer signup will be included.

Save the date for our seed swap on November 16 - more information coming soon!

This seed swap will be available only to members.

There will be opportunities to volunteer (emails about volunteering will be sent separately).

We hope you can join us! We’ll have a variety of seed including annuals, perennials,  grasses, shrubs, and trees. We will also have information about how to grow native seed. You don't need to bring seed to attend the event or bring home seed.

If you do have native seed to share, please label each species with this information:
* Botanical Name
* Common Name
* Collection City or County, Elevation, and Year 
* Your First Initial and Last Name
* If your seed is from a wild population rather than a garden site, add “WILD”

We happily accept seed from species native to Colorado and adjacent states. Please avoid cultivars, which might not support native pollinators and wildlife. We do NOT accept seeds from plants designated as noxious weeds.

You can drop off seed before the event in Fort Collins or Longmont. Email [email protected] to coordinate. If you plan to bring seed the day of the event, email the species name(s) to [email protected] ahead of time so that we can prepare information for attendees about your seed.

We will be asking for volunteers to help at the event at a later date.

Details coming soon! 

Save the date for the Boulder County Regional Seed Swap.  This description will be updated with volunteer and seed donation information.