The Whitmire Wildflower Garden is a native landscaping demonstration for homeowners, large landowners and professionals who use native plants in landscaping. The home gardening area displays the showiest and most reliable Missouri native plants for small-scale gardening. Part of the home gardening area includes a low-maintenance groundcover display. Other areas of the Whitmire garden include prairie, glade, woodland, and wetland demonstrations.

Read an article about the history and mission of the Whitmire garden

Low Maintenance Native Groundcovers (.doc) These Native groundcover plants are very useful in reducing landscape maintenance

Native Plant School
A year-round series of learning sessions covering various aspects of landscaping with native plants.

Class Listing

Fall Wildflower Sale and Open Garden

LILY

The Missouri Native Landscaping Database

Greener Stormwater Solutions

New MSD stormwater best management practices guide.

Grow Native!

Learn about Missouri's rich array of landscape worthy native plants and how to use them to create beautiful landscapes on your property.

Wild Ones
The St Louis Chapter of Wild Ones offers many native landscaping events around the St. Louis area.

Building a Rain Garden

YouTube video of Wild Ones volunteers building a small residential rain garden.

Rain Barrels

Learn more about this water saving device.