Take the opportunity to experience 3 amazing Kansas City home gardens themes on June 14 from 9am-2pm. Inspired to try this at home? Stop in at Anita B Gorman Discovery Center (4750 Troost Ave, KCMO) from 10am-2pm for a Native Plant sale.
A garden of native plants that provide sustenance and shelter for birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. Experience a diverse range of native plant gardens grown by Kansas City area residents. Meet other native gardeners and wildlife supporters and find inspiration and information to grow your own habitat garden. Inspired by the gardens you visited? Find the same plants at our native plant sales and grow your own habitat garden. Do try this at home!
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A Garden that Sustains Humans and Nature
This outdoor space invites and supports all species, from buzzing pollinators and nesting birds to the humans who care for it and nurture it. Our tour hosts started their journey as an avid gardener with raised beds for vegetables and herbs along with fruit trees and berry brambles. The native plant bug “bit”, and the yard is an ever-expanding landscape of milkweed, rose verbena, yarrow, and more. Choosing native plants is an invitation to native fauna, and these residents are rewarded whenever a ladybug visits the yarrow or a monarch lays its eggs on a welcoming milkweed.
Eclectic Ecosystem: Buzzing, Blooming, and Brimming with Biodiversity
Walking through this sensorial garden, visitors will enjoy textures, scents, and a symphony of native plants that awaken the senses and celebrate nature’s diversity. The tour host exemplifies responsible storm water management with a rain barrel and burgeoning rain garden. Tour guests can wind their way through the front and back gardens and -explore the visual feast of gray headed coneflowers, shadblow, downy serviceberries, and phlox.
Twenty-five Years and Going Strong!
This garden is for the birds and the bees! In the mid-90s, this tour host learned of the plight of the monarchs and immediately planted milkweed. From there, she and her husband planted more milkweed and more native plants! As Missouri Master Naturalists, they practice what they preach! A lovely tulip tree and multiple serviceberries anchor the front yard. Flocks of cedar waxwings descend on the serviceberries when the berries are ripe! Winding your way around the house to the backyard, enjoy the hosts’ monarch garden, ginormous gragrant sumac, buckeye, and more!
