2022 Report for Hemingway Butterfly Garden: Mariposas del Mundo
Year
2022
Number of volunteers
20
Total volunteer hours
116
Number of events
8
Number of shrubs planted
7
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3 ruby spice clethras, 2 summer sweet clethras, 2 pussy willows, 1 inkberry
Number of perennials planted
15
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5 agastache, 3 phlox, 5 butterfly milkweed, 2 moss flowering phlox
Summary
The swaths of agastache and wild phlox you see might belie the Hemingway Butterfly Garden’s origins as a vacant lot. Now entering its fourth year as a Greenspace site, the butterfly garden is quickly establishing itself as a pollinator hotspot and a stunning natural oasis. Its volunteer team worked throughout this season to maintain and expand the existing space. They spent first half of the summer with maintenance work, weeding flowerbeds and clearing knotweed along the creek bank before diversifying the site’s selection of wildflowers with new perennials and shrubbery.
