July 07, 2015 It’s My Park Day Butterfly Gardening

Today community volunteers created a blue stone stump table in the Monarch Butterfly habitat with a found slab. The tree was lost to Hurrican Sandy. It forms a great work surface. The garden habitat is in full color. The Appalachian Mountain Mint (Scientific/Botanic name: Pycanthemum flexuosum) the small white flowers are in bloom. The tall purple stalks, Blazing Stars (Liatris spicata), has reached a height of 2 feet. The Sunflowers are in the foreground and should reach 9 feet by mid-August and begin to bloom. We will be harvesting their sees for next years planting. These sunflower plants have grown from seeds we harvested in the fall of 2014. The children loved planting the sunflower seeds and have been keeping close tabs on their growth.

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