Category Archives: Wildflower Rescue

• Say No to Sweet Woodruff

  

  Pretty? Yes. Fragrant? Yes. Deadly to native wildflowers? Yes! When choosing plants at the nursery this spring, please don’t buy sweet woodruff. In the photo at right you can see what it has done to our Whaleback Natural Area in certain areas—covered the forest floor, crowding out native wildflowers like trillium, jack in the pulpit, [...]

  Posted 01/11/12 @ 8:42pm — No Comments — Tagged: Stewardship, Whaleback, Wildflower Rescue

• Wildflower Rescue Annual Plant Sale on the Leland Village Green

  

  Friday, May 25th to Sunday, May 28th (Memorial Weekend)   Wildflower Rescue Plant SaleThe 19th Annual Plant Sale on the Village Green in Leland is on tap for Memorial Day Weekend! Now is your chance to purchase native ferns, trillium and more along with a selection of  native trees and shrubs provided by locally owned Four [...]

  Posted 01/01/12 @ 10:40am — No Comments — Tagged: Annual Wildflower Rescue Plant Sale, Events, Wildflower Rescue

• Conservancy Seeks Help From Property Owners Who are Planning to Build

  

  From our 2010 Spring Newsletter “Every time I see a new driveway or house going in and we missed a chance to dig up the wildflowers there before the bulldozers arrived, it makes me crazy,” says Patty Shea, co-founder of the Leelanau Conservancy’s Wildflower Rescue Committee. “If people would just let us spend a few [...]

  Posted 03/11/10 @ 9:21pm — No Comments — Tagged: Land Protection, Volunteer, Wildflower Rescue

• In the News—Wildflower Rescue

  Grand Traverse Insider Article about Wildflower Rescue

  Posted 11/19/09 @ 8:58pm — No Comments — Tagged: Volunteer, Wildflower Rescue