West Cook Wild Ones

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.

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

📣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.
https://t.co/TarvmiU07z

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

For those in Cook County, remove invasive trees or shrubs on your property, and pick up a free native tree or shrub in October. https://t.co/DjuZrqSwW3

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Planning your garden? Think like a pollinator! 🐝

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

📣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.
https://t.co/TarvmiU07z

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

@NatureinChicago So much better than lawn!

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

Today's the day for the garden tour! https://t.co/yarR15pF8G

[A_Truth_Seeker @cassandrawest85]

Native garden walk returns the western suburbs
‘Birds, Bees & Butterflies’ features Riverside and Berwyn gardens
💚 what @WestCookWildOne is doing.
@naturescribe

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[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

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. https://t.co/r9lPb3iM2i

#nativeplants #nativegardening #gardentour #riverside #berwyn #cookcounty

[Edward Warden @DigiNaturalist]

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.

[One Earth Film Fest @OneEarthFF]

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: https://t.co/aocn1xeogy

[Chicago ParkDistrict @ChicagoParks]

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

[Robert D. Hughes @robertdhughes63]

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

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

Native garden tour returns!
https://t.co/mW4MAORjtS

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

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: https://t.co/fcwpxrxu7s

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

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: https://t.co/fcwpxrxu7s

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

Native garden tour returns!
https://t.co/mW4MAORjtS

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

Proceeds help us provide programs and grants to other nonprofits https://t.co/P5s4WF1SqU

[West Cook Wild Ones @WestCookWildOne]

Tomorrow: 3/19 https://t.co/GB9mZrYqi6

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

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