Our Bedrock

Mission Statement: Gardens and programs that inspire, educate, and enrich our lives and our community.

Purpose Statement: To educate and encourage citizens on the importance of developing, restoring, maintaining and conserving wildlife habitat, and the native plants that comprise that habitat.

Membership:
Welcome new members!! We hope to see you at our monthly classes and upcoming events.

Renewal Information:
Thanks to those who have renewed and have done so continuously and generously. Memberships/Renewals help support our organization to maintain the gardens! 

Renewal notices will be emailed during the month in which it is due. Due to circumstances, it is currently the more expeditious and cost-effective method.

Note:
Though you may still choose to mail in payments, we can now accept memberships and renewals online with this link: Membership/Renewals. (Note: It is possible to use credit/debit cards in lieu of a PayPal account. If it asks you to log in with a one time code, choose the option of “try another way” and then you can choose credit/debit card and go from there.)

To help us cover our processing costs for the convenience of using online payments, it is necessary to include those costs in our online membership fees. Amounts remain the same as before for checks/cash.

Separate donations can also be transacted online!
Donations/Memorials.

March Class

Please review the attached flyer for our class at the CASEE Center on Saturday March 21st at 10:00am ~ Landscapes That Listen: Welcoming Wildlife Through Thoughtful Design ~ conducted by Anne Bulger, WSU Master Gardener & OSU Master Melittologist, NS President. 
What happens when we shift from managing the garden to truly observing it? This conversation highlights how understanding pollinator behavior — especially native bees — can deepen our habitat practices and enrich our gardening experience.

Please let me know via email if you would like to attend this class to ensure proper chair set up and materials–members are always welcome.

February Class—Recap
Saturday, February 21 ~ I Like Lichens ~ conducted by Rebecca Lexa, Naturalist was a repeat of our January class due to high demand. Once again, the classroom was full.
Glad we had the opportunity to accommodate everyone who wanted to attend–most popular class ever. Lichens, so cool!
Garden Work Parties
Get your hands dirty and volunteer at the gardens! Our work parties have begun! and will last through October. On work days volunteers are guided by one of our garden coordinators to work on needed tasks/projects in the various gardens. 
This Saturday, March 7th, is our big clean-up day! Help us get the gardens ready for the new season and assist with a few projects. We have a sign-up system using SignUpGenius. Additional sign up dates will be routinely added. To sign up to work on listed days, here is the link: SignUpGenius

And something new this year…a bonus! We are striving to host a rotating series of garden education talks for our Gardeners and volunteers at a monthly work party. The goal is to offer practical, science-based, and inspiring learning opportunities that support habitat gardening and stewardship. Our Garden Walk ‘n Talk with different Garden Ambassadors will take place during the first hour of the designated work party slot. Look for it on the sign up dates/times listings.

And our inaugural Garden Walk ’n Talk speaker on March 28th wi how they function within living systems. We’ll discuss what trees and shrubs offer to other plants and to wildlife, and what they in turn receive through ecological relationships. We’ll identify native species and look at evolutionary adaptations such as thorns, needles versus leaves, and the purposes of flowers and fruits. We look forward to an engaging and field-based learning experience.

Steven’s Bio:  Steven Clark is a retired professor of biology at Clark College. He has applied his passion for teaching to students from kindergarten through college and holds degrees in psychology, religion, Deaf education, and environmental science.
Steven has supported endangered western pond turtle research in the Columbia River Gorge and has participated in American pika research for more than ten years. He serves as Vice President of the Washington Native Plant Society and volunteers with the University of Washington Rare Plant Care program as well as with ODFW surveying sage grouse leks each spring.

Steven has supported endangered western pond turtle research in the Columbia River Gorge and has participated in American pika research for more than ten years. He serves as Vice President of the Washington Native Plant Society and volunteers with the University of Washington Rare Plant Care program as well as with ODFW surveying sage grouse leks each spring.

Potted Plant Sale
This year our modified plant sale at the Wildlife Botanical Gardens in Brush Prairie will take place for one day on Saturday April 25th from 9am – 3:00pm. Members up to date with their dues will have first access to the sale prior to opening it up to the public. Along with perennials all nursery items will be potted, bagged or burlapped–no bare root trees or shrubs. NatureScaping sales are CASH AND CHECK ONLY — NO CREDIT CARDS, VENMO, OR ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS ACCEPTED 

The CASEE Center will be selling natives from their greenhouse and Garden Delight Herb Farm will be selling herbs. We will have Mason bees for sale.

More information to come.
Garden Tidings
Come get ’em…Mason bee cocoons that is. We’ll be in the gardens on Sunday March 8th from noon – 2:00pm to share and sell. For those attendees of the class in November 2025 you can pick up your earned cocoons. For others, we will be selling cocoons–get the best deal in town! Checks payable to NatureScaping or cash only.

 

Noticing signs of Spring?  Visit the gardens soon and see what you can find!

 

 

 

Bulletin Board
Spring has sprung on the latest post on the bulletin board hung on the big shed in the center of the gardens. Come take a look! Thank you Rosemarie!

 

 

 

Sharing……

Booklet
With funding from a Washington Native Plant Society (WNPS) grant and with many volunteer hours from committee members (you know who you are) a longtime dream has been fulfilled.
We have created a free 52-page booklet as an educational tool that includes dozens of high-quality photos, descriptions and other information regarding native plants found at The Wildlife Botanical Gardens and reasons to incorporate them in your landscape. Here is the link to finding it on our website:
Nature Related Quote of the Month

From Antoine Lavoisier: “I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.”

Enjoy!

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