Aspen's not the only winter playground

View from the Butterfly Garden, February 2011

Photos of Butterfly Garden in progress

To view photos albums of Highlands Butterfly Garden in progress as well as our landscaping plan (donated by landscape designer Jenny Carpenter), go to:

https://picasaweb.google.com/HighlandsGardenCommittee

Fantastic News

We are thrilled that the Parents' Auxiliary has voted to go ahead with irrigation for the Butterfly Garden.  This is one of the most important steps in putting in place the hardscape and probably the most important step in ensuring the garden's long term sustainability.  Thank you, Highlands School PA!!

Living in Clover

To replace the annual rye--which will die out as soon as the mercury (and/or Light-Emitting-Diode digital number) rises above 80 degrees, we are thinking of planting a clover lawn this first year in the Butterfly Garden.
Clover fixes nitrogen in the soil and attracts beneficial insects, thus improving the soil's longterm health and fertility. It is also an important food for certain butterfly larvae. There are several forms of white clover (trifolium repens) that form beautiful, green, low-growing, carpet-like groundcovers.
Plus kids love to make clover chains.
Wow!  All that in one little plant.
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifolium_repens