Stay tuned: Details are still being finalized for this event.

Free and open to the public.

Native Plants to the People will be selling plants at this event.

Free, open to the public, and family-friendly.

Garden vendors, Food trucks, Children’s garden & activities, and much more!

THE GREENEST DAY: ARBOR & EARTH DAY CELEBRATION

Organized by the Medical University of South Carolina

Native Plants to the People, LLC will be selling plants at this event.

The Greenest Day features environmentally conscious local crafts, farmers, food trucks, music, and non-profits that contribute to healthier lives and a healthier planet. 2023’s celebration included over 40 exhibitors and thousands of MUSC employees, patients, and guests. We hope all who have joined us in the past will participate again this year, and we hope to see many new faces!

This is a free event open to the public. No registration is required.

Native Plants to the People will be selling plants at this family-friendly event!

Free and open to the public, but please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2024-charleston-honey-and-bee-expo-tickets-724281695047

The Charleston Area Beekeepers Association (CABA) and the Charleston Parks Conservancy is excited to present the 2024 Bee Expo at Magnolia Park on Saturday April 13th. This is a FREE family-friendly education event where we will bring in local beekeepers from the Lowcountry to educate about bees and products of the hive like honey, wax, and royal jelly. We will also be joined by experts on native plants who will be teaching about how to plant for pollinators and reduce and manage chemical application. We will have hands-on activities for all ages, local honey products and natural hand-made crafts for sale, live music and food trucks.

Native Plants to the People will be set up and selling native plants outdoors at Tradesman Brewing Company. We’d love to see you there!

Hosting organization: Sierra Club

Free and open to the public

Available in-person on the College of Charleston campus (address to left) OR via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYof-yhqjwsGdW_HJJukwRPGucq4yAJKBVs)

As an ecologist, Sharleen focuses on much more than just the plants when gardening: microscopic and macroscopic life in the soil, critters in the leaf litter, herbivorous and pollinating and predatory insects, and larger wildlife including lizards and birds. All organisms are dependent upon a specific set of environmental conditions and a balanced network of other organisms to thrive. Coastal South Carolina habitats are rapidly being converted into housing developments, and unfortunately most yards provide low quality habitat. Therefore it’s not surprising that many bird and pollinator species are undergoing concerning population declines. So… what can we do? Ensure that our yards and neighborhoods have real habitat value! Sharleen will provide an introduction to gardening with native plants to support pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.

To place a pre-order, visit our online Native Plant Shop (https://www.nativeplantsttp.com/store) between March 24-March 26 (noon), add plants to your cart, and pre-pay for your plants using a credit card (processed by Stripe via Squarespace). 

You will receive a confirmation email with details about your order as well as a reminder about the pick-up date, time, and location (Saturday, March 30th, 1-3 pm, Tradesman Brewing Company, Charleston OR 3/30-3/31 at your convenience from James Island — address will be emailed to you after you place your order). 

Available plants come in a range of sizes: 

• Plug (a small plant that is growing in soil in a "cell" within a tray)

• 3.5" pot and 4.25" pot and 5.5" pot (the inches are the measurement across the top of the pot)

• 1-gallon pot

The deadline for placing a pre-order will be March 26th at noon.

The Lowcountry Chapter of the South Carolina Native Plant Society will have a farmer’s-market-style native plant sale at Fort Johnson on Saturday, March 23 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. SCNPS members and plant sale volunteers can shop early at 9:15 am. Each vendor will handle their own check-out, but SCNPS volunteers will be on hand to help. Recommendation: BYO wagon or box. (Note: No restrooms on site!)

For more details, including an annotated map, visit the SCNPS event page here: https://scnps.org/event/lowcountry-spring-native-plant-market or the SCNPS Facebook event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1468399783745003

Native Plants to the People will be set up and selling native plants outdoors at Tradesman Brewing Company. This will be our first open-shopping native plant sale of Spring 2024, and we’d love to see you there!

Pre-ordering is now closed for Round 1. Thank you to everyone who took part in our first-ever round of online pre-orders (SO MUCH BETTER than our old email-based ordering system)!

Folks who placed a pre-order received a confirmation email with details about their order as well as a reminder about the pick-up date, time, and location (Sunday, March 10th, 1-3 pm, Tradesman Brewing Company, Charleston). 

People who noted under “Special Instructions” that they wished to pick up their pre-orders in James Island should have received a follow-up email from us with more information.

Hosting organization: Edisto Island Open Land Trust

Free and open to the public. However, due to limited seats at the venue, RSVP was required, and all of the seats are now filled.

Location: Edisto Beach State Park’s Environmental Learning Center

Come join The M.A.R.S.H. Project for our second talk with native plant experts Sharleen Johnson, of Native Plants to the People, and Al Mason, of Plan’td! We loved hearing from them last year, so we decided to host a follow up just in time for spring planting! We’ll be learning about garden design from a less technical approach, and gardens that work with water (think rain gardens, flooding, saltwater intrusion)! Additional topics will include pollinators of the Lowcountry and the importance of native plants.

Free and open to the public, but registration is required.

RSVP here: https://themarshproject.com/

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

Ecologist and habitat gardener Sharleen Johnson will provide an introduction to gardening with native plants to support pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.

Ecologist and habitat gardener Sharleen Johnson will provide an introduction to gardening with native plants to support pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.

Free for members of the Senior Center; $5 for non-members.

To register and for more details, visit the Waring Senior Center’s event registration page.

(This class was originally scheduled for January 9th, but was rescheduled to January 17th due to severe weather.)

Ecologist and habitat gardener Sharleen Johnson will provide an introduction to gardening with native plants to support pollinators, birds, and other wildlife.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.

Co-Hosted by Clemson Cooperative Extension, Charleston Parks Conservancy, SC Native Plant Society, Native Plants to the People, Biohabitats, and the Charleston Climate Coalition, this month's gathering will focus on promoting and protecting native plant and tree species in the Lowcountry.