Minimizing the Error in Trial & Error
(in native gardening)
Presented by Mike Weis, Dropseed! Native Gardens and Ecological Restoration
Monday, February 17, 2025
6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (ET)
Online/Virtual • Zoom Webinar
- Public Welcome
- Program will be recorded and made public on YouTube
- Free Event Chapter
- Speaker Presentation
Experienced native plant gardener and designer Mike Weis, of Dropseed! Native Gardens and Ecological Restoration, will take us through the steps in the first garden he ever installed, starting in 2005. He will present a slideshow of images of this garden through the years to illustrate how some decisions/methods that were used worked well while others did not.

Bio: Mike Weis is the owner of the Kalamazoo-based native plant
landscape company Dropseed! Native Gardens and Ecological
Restoration. He has been gardening with native plants since
2005. Mike also works seasonally for Hidden Savanna Native
Plant Nursery and volunteers as an ecological steward for
Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy and Stewards of
Kleinstuck. Mike is also on the executive and program
committees for Kalamazoo Area Wild Ones, a board member of
Stewards of Kleinstuck and he is the representative of KAWO
for the Asylum Lake Preserve Council.