The West Cook County chapter of Wild Ones. Learn about native plants and how they support biodiversity with us. Free monthly programs on relevant topics.
Oak Park, IL
Joined August 2013
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📣Application for our Garden for Nature Grant is now open! Picture credit: Julie Roth of Serenity Park And Community Gardens, who has been a grantee of ours.
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For those in Cook County, remove invasive trees or shrubs on your property, and pick up a free native tree or shrub in October. westcook.wildones.org/invasi…
📣Application for our Garden for Nature Grant is now open! Picture credit: Julie Roth of Serenity Park And Community Gardens, who has been a grantee of ours.
westcook.wildones.org/garden…
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Native garden walk returns the western suburbs
‘Birds, Bees & Butterflies’ features Riverside and Berwyn gardens
💚 what @WestCookWildOne is doing.
@naturescribe
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Tickets still available! Grab a friend and make your plans. The 2023 annual Birds, Bees & Butterflies: A Native Garden Tour is Saturday, July 22 in Riverside and Berwyn. tinyurl.com/WOWCTour2023
#nativeplants #nativegardening #gardentour #riverside #berwyn #cookcounty
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Well, the cat's out of the bag, or, well, plover I guess. Three young plovers were released this afternoon at Montrose Beach. Full news coverage I'd forthcoming, but you can start celebrating now.
Three endangered piping plovers have just been released into the wild in a protected site at Montrose Beach in an effort to aid in species recovery.
This marks the first time plovers are being released in the city— hopefully they’ll make friends with Imani! @wttw
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The @WestCookWildOne 'Birds, Bees & Butterflies: A Native Garden Walk' returns Saturday, July 22, from 1 to 5pm. Gardens and gardeners hail from historic Riverside and Berwyn, IL. This could be the best one yet. Register: westcook.wildones.org/birds-…
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Three endangered Piping Plovers were released into the wild at #MontroseBeach this afternoon with support from @USFWS, @IllinoisDNR & @ChicagoParks. The reared chicks will join Imani, our resident plover and call Chicago's shoreline home. This is a 1st in Chicago. #PipingPlovers
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Another tree from the Montrose Point arbor files and the second with the word "hop" in its name. This is an Eastern Hophornbeam and it can be recognized by the clusters of pouch or bladder like fruit.
You could say we're all hopped up at Montrose.
#MontrosePointBirdSanctuary
ALT Eastern Hophornbeam
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Invasive Plant Trade-in Program for Cook County is open for applications. Destroy one of the targeted invasive and receive a FREE native tree or shrub in the fall. Details: westcook.wildones.org/2023/0…
Invasive Plant Trade-in Program for Cook County is open for applications. Destroy one of the targeted invasive and receive a FREE native tree or shrub in the fall. Details: westcook.wildones.org/2023/0…
Proceeds help us provide programs and grants to other nonprofits wild-ones-west-cook.myshopif…
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A laser scan shows a plant root, in blue, enveloped by a mycorrhizal fungus, in red
Mycorrhizal fungi provide plants with nutrients, water and defense from pathogens in exchange for sugars
This image beautifully displays an ancient symbiosis where fungus and root become one