Name: Native Plant and Seed Swap and Share
Start: 2025-10-04T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-04T12:00:00-04:00
Location: St. Mary's County Library

Bring your native plants and seeds to trade with other gardeners at this annual native plant swap at the “Front Yard” native gardens. Fall is the best time for planting, so this event is a great way to add new plants to your native gardens and to obtain seeds for winter sowing native plants.
This free event offers both experienced and new gardeners a chance to add native plants to their yards. In doing so, you will be creating habitat for our native birds, bees and butterflies.
If you're new to gardening with native plants, this event is the place to get started! Meet and chat with native-plant enthusiasts, view native plants in the Front Yard gardens, and take home free plants and seeds!
If you're an experienced native gardener, please spread the joy by bringing your favorite plants and seeds to swap and share.
Strange as it sounds, we're trying to prevent the spread of invasive jumping worms, so please follow these simple steps when bringing your plants to the event:
Dig up your plants.
Shake the dirt off the roots.
Gently rinse the roots clean.
Label each plant (include the botanical name if you can).
Bring them to the Swap & Share in a bucket of water or wrapped in wet paper and tucked in a plastic bag.
For more information, contact Liz Curtz, Friends of St Clements Bay, at [email protected] or Marlene Smith, Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay, @ [email protected]
For more information, visit https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/events/?wo_event_id=10181
In addition to Wild Ones Chesapeake Bay, participating partners include Friends of St Clements Bay, St. Mary's County Master Gardeners, St. Mary's County Garden Club, St. Mary's County Master Naturalists , Butterfly Alley, and the Leonardtown Butterfly Trail.