Editor's Note
By Andrea Thunem reporting for Native Plant News Fall 2025
Decades ago NCNPS knew native plants were important. You made it happen then. Now almost 75 years later, your impact has made us an influential community.
What captures your fancy these days? When you think about native plants, what do you expect from the NC Native Plant Society? Is it the leadership, the activities, the people, the community, the impact made? How about the fun we have being together! Your joy being with plants, and with neighbors and friends drives us. Because of you, the NC Native Plant Society is a success.
Thanks to you, we will soon celebrate 75 years of continuity.
- Stay tuned. Advise us how you want to make a difference. Let’s hear what you like about NCNPS and how we can do it.
- Stay involved. Keep doing what you’re doing for native plants. Learn more and be an informed advocate.
- Your help helps. We need each other, for the plants, and for our planet.
Andrea Thunem is managing editor of the North Carolina Native Plant Society’s Native Plant News and a member of the NCNPS Southern Piedmont Chapter. A retired journalist and landscape designer with a passion for native plants and environmental sustainability, she loves working with people to present their stories about the holistic nature of plants, people, earth, and connections. Email her at newsletter@ncwildflower.org.