HGCNY participates in various native plant projects, working toward our Wild Ones mission to preserve biodiversity.
Wild for Monarchs
Wild Ones is a partner in the Monarch Joint Venture and as part of the effort to conserve monarch butterflies has developed a Wild for Monarchs program.
HGCNY enthusiastically participates in this program.
Bird-friendly Native Plants of the Year
Inspired by the North Carolina Audubon’s Bird-friendly Native Plants of the Year program, we’re working with the local Onondaga Audubon chapter to create a similar program here in CNY.
We started our first year’s list of “Birdy Dozen” plants in 2017 and also developed lists for 2018 and 2019 (to give nurseries time to propagate plants). After that, we’ll add one Birdy Dozen list each year, three years in advance. Here are our lists.