Register here to enter your household in the Aullwood Audubon Native Plant Backyard Challenge for 2025! Join us on a journey to transform or develop your outdoor spaces into diverse native habitats. The Aullwood Native Plant Backyard Challenge (or NPBC) exists to provide education and promote native plant landscape projects by recruiting households in association with Aullwood’s Native Plant Sale. We hope this project supports and motivates both local and regional members to transform their backyards and go native!

Registrants will receive a Planning Guide filled with resources like planting guides and bloom calendars to help you succeed, access to workshop opportunities to engage with local professionals and the challenge community, and free admission to our Native Plant Speaker Series. You'll also have access to an exclusive Facebook group where Aullwood staff will offer plant information and advice, as well as periodically posting special themed threads where community discussion will be encouraged. Watch your email box after registration for more information!

Interested in sponsoring another native plant enthusiast for the Native Plant Backyard Challenge? Add a Native Plant Backyard Challenge sponsorship to your order to allow another household access to all the benefits of the challenge at no cost to them. Thank you!

(American Goldfinch on Silphium perfoliatum (Cup-Plant), Du Page county, Illinois Photo: Jestin Sebastian/Audubon Photography Awards)