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Field Trips Native Gardening Pollinators

June 2025 Habitat Garden Tours… DO Try This at Home!

Join Deep Roots’ Habitat Garden Tours in June and get inspired! This month’s tour hosts range from a new garden transitioning from conventional to native, to an eclectic urban enclave…

Deep RootsMay 23, 2025

Native Gardening Pollinators What's Blooming Now

What’s Blooming Now?

Pictured clockwise from top left: Io Moth Caterpillar (Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren); Indigo bush; Automeris Io (Jeremy Johnson) This month is full of brilliant flowering plants to highlight, but…

Deep RootsMay 23, 2025

Ask the Experts Field Trips

Take a Walk on the Wild Side with Deep Roots!

By Cydney Ross, Outdoor Education Manager Spring is the perfect time to get outdoors and experience nature across the region! Woodlands are full of rich blooms and prairies have tiny…

Deep RootsApril 26, 2025

Ask the Experts Native Gardening

Native Plant Sales Are Blooming!

Landscapes across the KC Metro are shining with their spring blooms and emerging greenery. Deep Roots’ season of native plant sales began in earnest when our April 12th Prairie Village…

Deep RootsApril 26, 2025

Ask the Experts Pollinators

The Missouri Bumble Bee Atlas Needs You!

Guest Authored By: Genevieve Pugesek, Conservation Biologist at The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation Photos: Left: Xerces Society/Katie Lamke; Top Right: Ozark Rivers Audubon/Linda Frederick; Bottom right: Xerces Society/Katie Lamke…

Deep RootsApril 26, 2025

Ask the Experts Native Gardening

Spring Primer 2025

We’re all worn out and a little bit dizzy from the roller coaster of a season that the end of this winter has turned out to be. But by the…

Deep RootsMarch 18, 2025

Ask the Experts Native Gardening

Underrated Early Spring Pollinators

Photos: Left: Early spring flower fly, Cydney Ross; Top center: Early Spring Hover Fly, Noppadol Paothong, courtesy Missouri Department of Conservation; Bottom Center: Syrphid Fly_Photo by MDC Staff, courtesy Missouri…

Deep RootsMarch 18, 2025

Field Trips Native Gardening

Habitat Garden Tours 2025–Spring Preview

This first month’s gardens are the most geographically dispersed of the season, for this simple reason: Each is a preview of neighborhoods to come (Troostwood, Waldo and Prairie Village). See…

Deep RootsMarch 18, 2025

Native Gardening Plan It Native

Deep Roots Recognizes Former MDC Director Sara Parker Pauley with the Inaugural White Oak Award

Photo Credit: Erin Woodiel and MDC Deep Roots recognized Pauley for her career strengthening conservation partnerships. At Plan It Native 2025, Deep Roots presented former Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC)…

Deep RootsFebruary 23, 2025

Field Trips Native Gardening

Habitat Garden Tours 2025–Save the Dates and Call for Volunteers

Do you feel that in the air? Spring is on the way. And that means Habitat Garden Tours is around the corner. As before, our 2025 tours will take place…

Deep RootsFebruary 23, 2025

Deep Roots

June 2025 Habitat Garden Tours… DO Try This at Home!

What’s Blooming Now?

Take a Walk on the Wild Side with Deep Roots!

Native Plant Sales Are Blooming!

The Missouri Bumble Bee Atlas Needs You!

Spring Primer 2025

Underrated Early Spring Pollinators

Habitat Garden Tours 2025–Spring Preview

Deep Roots Recognizes Former MDC Director Sara Parker Pauley with the Inaugural White Oak Award

Habitat Garden Tours 2025–Save the Dates and Call for Volunteers

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