Plant Rescue in Powell, Ohio 🌱

This is a Member Only Event
This event is limited to active Wild Ones members. If you’d like to participate and are not a current member, please click here andd find the “Join” button and become a member!

Later this year, AEP will be performing construction work that will remove a native prairie and raingarden installation behind a member’s residence.

Columbus Wild Ones is organizing this event for members to dig up and take home any plants needing rescue. We would LOVE and APPRECIATE for you to pot up and overwinter some of the plants you take home with you, to donate to next year’s Wild Ones’ May 2026 plant sale!

When: September 13, 2025, 9 am – 1 p.m.
Where: Location & updates will be emailed to current members before the event.

Please bring your own:

Digging tools
Plant pots/bags.
Water bottle
Some pots & old potting soil will be available.

The following is an incomplete list of the plants available to be dug up:
Big blue stem
Black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia fulgida)
Blue lobelia
Cedar
Clematis virginiana
Common eldeberry
Dutchmans pipevine
Grey-headed coneflower
Hairy petunia
Ironweed
Maypop (Incarnata passiflora)
Mist flower
New England aster
Pasture rose
Penstemon
Queen of the prairie
Quinine
Rattlesnake master
Red bud trees – 4″ to 6′
Round leaved ragwort
Sedum ternatum.
Senna
Sensitive fern
Shrubby St. Johns wort
Snakeroot
Sneezeweed
Swamp Mallow
Viburnum
Woodland sunflower
Hope to see you there!

Plant rescue in Powell, Ohio
Sep 13th, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm