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Our passion is to inspire, educate, and collaborate with others in creating outdoor spaces where native plants thrive and provide a welcome place for wildlife.

Milkweed for Monarchs

Milkweed provides the Monarch butterfly with the only larval host its caterpillars can feed on.  Mama Monarchs only lay their eggs on Milkweed… no other plant will do.  The relationship between Monarchs and Milkweed is so vital it’s no wonder the leading cause for the decline of the Monarch butterfly population is due to habitat…

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Native Plants

Have a desire to make your outdoor space more inviting to birds, butterflies, and other wildlife?  We’d love to help!  Our goal is to help you create a welcome place for wildlife in your outdoor spaces… and it first starts with native plants. What’s a native plant? “A plant is considered native if it has…

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Resources

New to native plants?  Check out the following links for some great info… Audubon Contain the Rain Deep Roots KC Homegrown National Park Humane Gardener Kansas City Wildlands Kansas Native Plant Society Monarch Watch National Wildflower Federation  Top Picture – A Monarch caterpillar resting under the leaf of a Swamp Milkweed after a summer rain…

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“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

– George Washington Carver

“In nature nothing exists alone.”

– Rachel Carson

“You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world.”

– Andy Andrews

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Happy Spring!!! ⛅️ Potting up some Blue Sage - Salvia azurea 🌱 seedlings today. These easy to grow native wildflowers will add color, and help create habitat for wildlife, in dry sunny spaces. We love planting these with native grasses, like Little Bluestem and Side Oats Grama, as well as other late summer/fall wildflowers like Goldenrods. A must have for your dry & sunny outdoor spaces! #olatheks #grownative #feedthebees
🌱 Potted up some baby Purple Milkweed seedlings today! Excited to have these available for purchase in late April! #purplemilkweed #asclepiaspurpurascens #olatheks
Reo couldn’t wait to check on the baby Milkweeds growing in our germination room. 🌱🐈👍🏼 #butterflymilkweed #swampmilkweed #moremilkweedmoremonarchs #olatheks
🌱 First Milkweed seeds of ‘23 are starting to germinate!!! #asclepiastuberosa #butterflymilkweed #moremilkweedmoremonarchs #olatheks
🌱🐛🦋🐝🐞 We are excited to be part of the upcoming Hasta Luego Monarchs event this Saturday, 9/24, at the Pollinator Prairie in Olathe - 320 S Blake St. This is a fun and free event… great for kids of all ages! We’ll have native Milkweeds, as well as other native plants, available for purchase. A portion of our total sales will be donated to support the awesome work of the Pollinator Prairie!!! Sale is from 9 am - Noon, or until sold out. Come out and celebrate the Monarch migration with us and take part in this great event! #olatheks #monarchmigration #hastaluegomonarchs #moremilkweedmoremonarchs
☀️ We are looking forward to our upcoming Native Plant Sale at Wild Birds Unlimited - Olathe this Saturday, September 17th from 10:00 am - Noon!!! This is a great time of year to add native plants to our outdoor spaces to help create more habitat for bees, birds, butterflies, pollinators, and other wildlife. 🌱🐛🦋🐝🐞 Wild Birds Unlimited (Olathe, KS)
- We are located in Olathe, Kansas.
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