We love getting to hear from our members, and we thought you might like to hear from each other, too! Here's Beverly Lytwyn, a longtime Wild Seed Project supporter …

One of our most-asked questions is: can I just toss these seeds on the ground?  It’s a great question.  After all, the plants you encounter on a hike …

Watching your first batch of winter-sown seeds emerge as tiny seedlings in the spring is a true joy of gardening with native plants …

We love getting to hear from our members, and we thought you might like to hear from each other, too! Here’s Doug Swartz, an enthusiastic gardener, birder and Wild Seed Project supporter…

Try your hand at native seed dispersal—take notice of the fecundity around you, pick up some seeds from the ground, and plant them somewhere. Here are seed collection and propagation tips…

Fall and winter are the best times to sow native seeds. In Maine, the yearly cycle for seed ripening and germination is different from common garden and vegetable seeds…

Since wild-type plants are grown from wild seed, they have a representative mix of the genes present in wild populations of the parent plants. Nativars on the other hand, are typically cloned plants, so each one is genetically identical …

I wish I could tell you that all I had to do was head down to my local garden center to purchase these natives, but the truth is …

The difference between a weed and a plant, in other words, boils down to human preference. And our personal preferences aren’t always good ecological choices …

As we face the unprecedented, urgent, and entwined challenges of the climate crisis and biodiversity loss, native plants grown from seed …

View or download a PDF of our Shady Native Perennial Pollinator Garden Bed Template, created in collaboration with Portland Pollinator Partnership.

View or download a PDF of our Sunny Native Perennial Pollinator Garden Bed Template, created in collaboration with Portland Pollinator Partnership.

In the winter of 2015, Wild Seed Project engaged the Conway School of Landscape Design to conduct a research project focused on a city-wide pollinator corridor for Portland …

Ash Protection Collaboration Across Wabanakik (APCAW) is a group of Indigenous and non-indigenous researchers, Tribal members, and forest caretakers working together …

Autumn is when many of us typically think of putting our gardens to bed by removing leaves and cutting back perennials. However, to truly support living creatures year round, it’s much better to leave fallen leaves …

Beach plums thrive in dry and sandy or gravelly soil. In the wild they grow in the extremely well drained sandy soils of the coast, often right in the sand dunes …

Stiff aster has many common names, including “bristly aster,” for its spruce-like leaves that feel rough to the touch; “flax-leaved aster” for the leaves’ resemblance to flax; and “ankle aster” …

Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) is a beautiful and unique native plant. Delicate red and yellow flowers resemble tiny ballerinas …

By now, many of us have heard about the wonderful health benefits of elderberries – they are high in antioxidants, vitamins C and B6, and support overall immune health. It has also been shown …