Wildlife Botanical Gardens
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The Wildlife Botanical Gardens are a cohesive blend of twelve separate, but neighboring, specialty gardens. Spread over three acres and open to the public, the Gardens are devoted to demonstrating and teaching gardening concepts which attract birds, butterflies, hummingbirds and other wildlife to residential gardens. Extensive urban growth over the last few decades has had a significant impact on habitat that birds and other wildlife once called home. You, as a homeowner, have a unique opportunity to curtail this loss of habitat by creating your own backyard wildlife sanctuary. The Wildlife Gardens will serve as a place to demonstrate and showcase plants attractive to birds and wildlife, landscaping for wildlife techniques and serve as models for homeowners planning their own yards. |
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Construction and planting began in Fall of '95 and will continue at an on-going basis until complete. The twelve specialty gardens will contain over 500 species and varieties of plants. | |||
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The plants will be labeled with botanical and common names as well as having icons indicating the wildlife that they attract, i.e. birds, butterflies, hummingbirds, bees and/or mammals. A semi-completed version of this can be found in the Entrance Garden, an informal area filled with perennials located at the east entrance to the Gardens. Hummingbird Place is rich with nectar-producing trees, shrubs and flowers while the Butterfly Garden will include both nectar and larval host plants. The Native Woodland Garden strives to reproduce and apply the elegance and design of our natural surroundings to a residential landscape. The Cottage Garden illustrates that even a small yard can support a diverse variety of plants and also encourage birds and other wildlife. The Homestead Garden is an edible plant garden, appetizing not only to our feathered friends but our human ones as well. The Manor Garden, featuring a "secret garden" within its interior, displays non-native plants attractive to birds in a refined "estate" style. The 4H RCS Food Bank Garden currently uses the Integrated
Pest Management Garden as a highly producing vegetable garden for the
community and as such uses IPM principals. Additional future gardens in
the planning process include a combination hummingbird and butterfly
garden to be aptly named Flying Flowers Garden, as well as a second
Ornamental garden, a NW Bird Haven Garden and a Native Urban Firewise Garden
depicting fire retardant gardening styles for those in high fire risk
areas. You can find other places in Clark County to visit on the Clark County Explorers Map
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