Make Plans for Native Gardening this Spring

It's never too early to start spring native garden plans. The Missouri Prairie Foundation has organized numerous native plant sales around Missouri this spring, organized in partnership with the hosts listed below.

Whether you are a beginning native gardener or have established native landscapes, these plant sales provide several opportunities to purchase native plants to complement your native gardens and landscapes.

Make plans to attend one or more of the spring sales listed on the next page and peruse the resources of the Missouri Prairie Foundation’s Grow Native! program at grownative.org to find inspiration and resources to create native plant shopping lists.

On the Grow Native site you can also:

• Find recently updated designs for rock, water, and rain gardens, as well as garden plans to entice butterflies, hummingbirds, and frogs.

• Find more than 30 Top Ten Native Plant lists for specific purposes and growing conditions, like half sun/half shade, clay soil, shade, to attract hummingbirds, and much more.

• Use the Grow Native! native plant database to filter more than 330 native species by soil moisture, sun exposure, and much more.

Vendor information for the sales listed below is available on the Missouri Prairie Foundation and Grow Native! websites. Vendors will donate a percentage of their sale proceeds to benefit MPF and/or its Grow Native! program.

• Saturday, March 25, 2023 (10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.)

Runge Conservation Nature Center, 330 Commerce Dr., Jefferson City, Missouri

• Saturday, April 8, 2023 (10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.)

MU Bradford Research Center, 4968 S. Rangeline Rd., Columbia, Missouri

• Saturday, April 15, 2023 (10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.)

Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, 4750 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri

• Saturday, April 29, 2023 (10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.)

Watershed Committee of the Ozarks, Ozark Empire Fairgrounds, 3001 N. Grant Ave., Springfield, Missouri

• Saturday, May 13, 2023 (10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.)

World Bird Sanctuary, 125 Bald Eagle Ridge Rd., Valley Park, Missouri

• Saturday, May 13, 2023 (10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.) Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, 4750 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Missouri

• Saturday, May 20, 2023 (10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.)

Bass Pro Shops Sportman's Center® , 3101 Bass Pro Drive, Columbia, Missouri

• Saturday, May 27, 2023 (2:00 to 6:00 p.m.) Mother's Brewing Company, 215 S. Grant Ave., Springfield, Missouri