What started as one couple’s effort to protect an established, natural beehive has blossomed into a pocket pollinator garden along the Swamp Rabbit Trail in Cleveland Park.
City Council accepted a $25,000 donation from Chuck and Jo Macpherson, finalizing plans to build a pollinator oasis between Cancer Survivors Park and the Major Rudolf Anderson airplane memorial.
Work will begin in October on the pollinator garden, which includes a wildflower meadow and a Monarch butterfly waystation that will become part of a national Monarch registry and enhance the city’s commitment to the Mayor’s Pledge for Monarch Habitats. The plantings will provide a habitat for all pollinators – butterflies, insects, bees, birds, reptile and mammals. The garden will be complete by November.
The city will assist by performing some of the work in-house, such as site preparation, tree planting, erosion control measures and boulder placement. The new habitat plans call for a small garden fence and hundreds of colorful, native pollinator-friendly plants, bushes and wildflowers to serve as natural buffers between Ridgeway Road and the Reedy River.
Visit the City of Greenville website for more information.
Written by the City of Greenville.