Events

NOTE: This event has been rescheduled from 24 Jan to 7 Feb due to the inclement weather.

Grab your boots, loppers, gloves, protective eyewear, weed wrenches and buckthorn blasters, and let's get ready to wrangle some privet! We will meet in the large parking lot near the pond off of Haysland Rd (look for the entrance columns). Some tools and PPE will be provided by WildOnes and the Green Team, but if you have your own tools and PPE, please bring them. This event is free and open to the public, ages 16+ (minors must be accompanied by a parent). We will have a brief training (depending on experience level) about privet identification and control methods before heading into the work site. 

Our upcoming webinar with Basil Camu explores practical, evidence based ways to heal suburban and urban landscapes by working with trees, soil, and natural systems, drawing on real world practices from Leaf & Limb and community centered models for restoring life where we live, work, and play.!  

Patrick Thompson grew up on Shades Mountain near Birmingham AL, earned a Master of Science degree in Horticulture and has been employed by Auburn's Davis Arboretum since the year 2000.  Patrick is the Arboretum’s Curator of Special Collections and Coordinator of The Alabama Plant Conservation Alliance. He works with native oaks, azaleas, and carnivorous plants. His primary conservation effort has been focused on the Alabama Sandstone Oak, Quercus boyntonii.

Grab your boots, loppers, gloves, protective eyewear, weed wrenches and buckthorn blasters, and let's get ready to wrangle some invasive plants! We will meet in the pavilion next to the Chapman Mountain Parking lot. Tools and PPE will be provided by the Land Trust of North Alabama and WildOnes, but if you have your own tools and PPE, please bring them. This event is free and open to the public, ages 16+ (minors must be accompanied by a parent). We will have a brief training (depending on experience level) about invasive plant identification and control methods before heading into the work site.

Rain date: 2/28/2026 (same time) 

Grab your boots, loppers, gloves, protective eyewear, weed wrenches and buckthorn blasters, and let's get ready to wrangle some invasive plants! We will meet in the Monte Sano Main Trailhead Parking Lot (where the South Plateau Loop trail begins), and head to the worksite that is covered in bush honeysuckle and other invasives. Tools and PPE will be provided by Alabama State Parks and WildOnes, but if you have your own tools and PPE, please bring them. This event is free and open to the public, ages 16+ (minors must be accompanied by a parent). We will have a brief training (depending on experience level) about invasive plant identification and control methods before heading into the work site.

Rain date: 3/14/2026 (same time) 

WONA's quarterly board of directors meeting. All members are welcome to join. Please email [email protected] if you would like to be sent the zoom.

Join Joey Santore, creator of Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t, for a candid Wild Ones National Webinar examining how inherited garden aesthetics shape native plant landscapes. Drawing on field experience and real ecology, Joey challenges tidy design norms and explores why dense, irregular plant communities are often the most resilient and ecologically sound.

Join WONA for our quarterly member meeting to find out what we are doing to advance the native plant movement in our area. This is a meeting for planning, strategizing, and developing plans to educate our community about native plants.

Planning time for the WONA Weed Wrangle committee. If you'd like to get involved, please email [email protected] with the subject line “Weed Wrangle.”

Join us for a member panel on planting natives in clay, compacted soils. This is the most common soil condition that our members have at their dispossal for native gardens, so this is your opportunity to ask all your burning questions to some locals with experience on the topic. 

Join WildOnes and ecologist Jon Evans on an exploration of Spring Ephemerals at the beautiful campus of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. Jon discovered a new species of Phacelia in Tennessee and North Alabama, and this will be a great opportunity to see both Phacelia bipinnatifida and Phacelia sewaneensis in their native habitat. One or more meeting places for carpooling will be announced for those interested. A group lunch will also be planned after the hike (dutch treat).

This event is for active WONA members only.

Join Wild Ones North Alabama in educating the general public about the importance of native plants for our native bees while helping children craft a bee house. You don't have to be a member of WONA to volunteer. Volunteers are welcome to enjoy the festival before and after their shifts.

Panoply is a rain or shine event so plan accordingly.

Please use a valid email as Panoply/Arts Huntsville will use that to provide parking and entrance information

Join Wild Ones North Alabama in educating the general public about the importance of native plants for our native bees while helping children craft a bee house. You don't have to be a member of WONA to volunteer. Volunteers are welcome to enjoy the festival before and after their shifts.

Panoply is a rain or shine event so plan accordingly.

Please use a valid email as Panoply/Arts Huntsville will use that to provide parking and entrance information

Join Wild Ones North Alabama in educating the general public about the importance of native plants for our native bees while helping children craft a bee house. You don't have to be a member of WONA to volunteer. Volunteers are welcome to enjoy the festival before and after their shifts.

Panoply is a rain or shine event so plan accordingly.

Please use a valid email as Panoply/Arts Huntsville will use that to provide parking and entrance information

Join local botanist and native plant advocate Lynne Weninegar as she takes us through the steps of planning a native garden.

Lynne Weninegar is a local botanist who has been  transitioning her landscape from non-native (often invasive) horticultural plants into an urban natural woodland setting with regionally-appropriate native plants. Her rocky limestone landscape feeds over 53 bird species throughout the year and features many plants that commonly occur in cedar glade/barren/woodland ecosystems with circumneutral soils. Lynne is a lifelong scientist whose landscape is an ongoing experiment to observe how plants and wildlife interact in a backyard that provides her with tranquility and year-round delight.

This is a member-only event. You must sign up and be a verified member to receive the address for the tour.

WONA's quarterly board of directors meeting. All members are welcome to join. Please email [email protected] if you would like to be sent the zoom.

Join WONA for our quarterly member meeting to find out what we are doing to advance the native plant movement in our area. This is a meeting for planning, strategizing, and developing plans to educate our community about native plants.

April Waltz will speak about the Alabama Wildlife Federation and more specifically the Habitat Learning Lab program. 

April works with schools to create schoolyard habitats that can be used for hands-on, inquiry-based learning opportunities.  The Habitat Learning Program emphasizes the importance of using native plants in pollinator, butterfly, frog & toad, and songbird habitats.  WONA members can learn more about our program on our website at https://alabamawildlife.org/habitat-learning-lab/.

This will consist of a 30 minute presentation with time for questions afterwards. 

Join WONA and Janice Barrett from Wild Alabama as she tells us the story of the hemlock wooly adelgid, an invasive insect threatening hemlock trees across the Easter U.S.

Planning time for the WONA Weed Wrangle committee. If you'd like to get involved, please email [email protected] with the subject line “Weed Wrangle.”

WONA's quarterly board of directors meeting. All members are welcome to join. Please email [email protected] if you would like to be sent the zoom.

Details coming soon! 

Lee McBride has been a tree care specialist since 1979 and an ISA certified arborist (currently a Master Arborist) since 1995. He started a business as an independent consulting arborist in 2005 and has decades of pruning and tree care health experience. Lee will discuss native hardwood care, pruning tips and insect issues affecting the health of our trees with WONA. There will be plenty of time for Q&A. 

Join WONA for our annual member meeting to elect a new Board and find out what we are doing to advance the native plant movement in our area. This is a meeting for planning, strategizing, and developing plans to educate our community about native plants.

Grab your boots, loppers, gloves, protective eyewear, weed wrenches and buckthorn blasters, and let's get ready to wrangle some invasive plants! We will meet in the Monte Sano Main Trailhead Parking Lot (where the South Plateau Loop trail begins), and head to the worksite that is covered in bush honeysuckle and other invasives. Tools and PPE will be provided by Alabama State Parks and WildOnes, but if you have your own tools and PPE, please bring them. This event is free and open to the public, ages 16+ (minors must be accompanied by a parent). We will have a brief training (depending on experience level) about invasive plant identification and control methods before heading into the work site.

Rain date: 10/24/2026 (same time) 

Details coming soon! 

Grab your boots, loppers, gloves, protective eyewear, weed wrenches and buckthorn blasters, and let's get ready to wrangle some invasive plants! We will meet in the pavilion next to the Chapman Mountain Parking lot. Tools and PPE will be provided by the Land Trust of North Alabama and WildOnes, but if you have your own tools and PPE, please bring them. This event is free and open to the public, ages 16+ (minors must be accompanied by a parent). We will have a brief training (depending on experience level) about invasive plant identification and control methods before heading into the work site. 

Rain date: 11/14/2026 (same time)

Details coming soon! 

Planning time for the WONA Weed Wrangle committee. If you'd like to get involved, please email [email protected] with the subject line “Weed Wrangle.”

Grab your boots, loppers, gloves, protective eyewear, weed wrenches and buckthorn blasters, and let's get ready to wrangle some privet! We will meet in the large parking lot near the pond off of Haysland Rd (look for the entrance columns). Some tools and PPE will be provided by WildOnes and the Green Team, but if you have your own tools and PPE, please bring them. This event is free and open to the public, ages 16+ (minors with parental supervision only). We will have a brief training (depending on experience level) about privet identification and control methods before heading into the work sites. 

WONA's quarterly board of directors meeting. All members are welcome to join. Please email [email protected] if you would like to be sent the zoom.