By Chapter Chairs reporting for Native Plant News Fall 2025
When you’re with us, you are part of a group that makes a difference – one plant at a time. Find your chapter or become a member-at-large. Check out these pictures from some of our nine chapters. We’ve have fun, we work hard, we’re in it together. Join us, have fun, work hard. We welcome you!
Land of the Sky Chapter
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Land of the Sky Chapter. Members toured the Marshall Library Native Plant Garden, led by Ed McNally, director of the garden, and listened to his introduction before the tour. The pollinator garden is one of several areas within the Marshall Library Native Plant Garden. The garden’s Peace Pole was donated by the Audubon Society North Carolina.
Reid (Triangle) Chapter
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Margaret Reid Chapter. After field trips to see rhododendrons and Mountain Laurel at White Pines Nature Preserve in Chatham County and Flower Hill Nature Preserve in Johnston County, the Margaret Reid Chapter’s pace of events slowed down for summer. Even so, we still had energy for several plant rescues, a booth at Durham Bee Festival, a midsummer social in a member’s garden, and a tour of the Native Plant Demonstration Garden in Orange County, a garden that received a B.W. Wells grant last year.
Oconee Bell Chapter
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Oconee Bell Chapter. We had a free native plant swap event at the Cashiers Library pond during our May meeting. In June we joined Friends of Panthertown and Highlands Biological Station to hike a beautiful trail in Panthertown. We saw Common Grass-pink orchid, Rock Harlequin, Roundleaf Sundew, and Flame Azalea. Also in June and July we saw lovely Fly-poison among Carroll Rivers’ ferns, Turk’s-cap Lily in bloom at the 4500 feet elevation garden of Dru and Ennis James, and we visited Sherran Blair’s garden with many native plants and a lovely moss covered stream, followed by pot luck lunch in her beautiful home.
Southern Piedmont Chapter
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Southern Piedmont Chapter. Members toured the Plaza Midwood Community Garden in Charlotte and enjoyed a lively mix of pollinators visiting beebalm, coneflower, milkweed, phlox, rudbeckia, and goldenrods. This special garden is free and open to all – well worth a visit if you’re looking for a little beauty, inspiration, and a reminder of what a community can grow. Beth Davis and other chapter members helped the City of Charlotte celebrate Pollinator Week with a plant giveaway event. Southern Piedmont Chapter will work with other community partners and Charlotte city staff to develop key aspects for Charlotte’s Bee City USA program for education events, planting and restoring pollinator habitats, creating a recommended native plants list, and working with Charlotte’s Landscape Management Division.
