Monarch Butterfly Waystation - Volunteers Make It Happen!

Awesome weekend seeing plans for a Monarch Waystation come to life at the Forest Park Pool in Fort Worth. From conception to completion was five and a half weeks.This Project is in support of the Native Plant Society’s and MonarchWatch.org “Bring Back the Monarchs” programs and the Mayor’s Monarch Pledge signed by Mayor Betsy Price in the spring of 2016.
Working over a two day period, August 13 & 14, four hours a day, volunteers from seven different organizations completed the installation of well over 250 plants in this 1,250 square feet of native garden happiness! We would not have been able to finish this in one weekend without the help of almost forty volunteers! The weather was perfect and continues to favor the garden through it first month.
City maintenance crews will be mentored over the course of a year or more in the care of the garden by NPSOT members. CTMN members will also be checking in to make sure proper care is being taken. Great teamwork! The lifeguards have pitched in and are taking pride in the new surroundings and industrial hoses bought by the same generous spirit who donated the bricks. Half the plants were purchased by the City Pool and the other half donated by members of NPSOT-NC. (see below for links of plan details and the story of how the Waystation came to be.)
Volunteers came from; The Boy Scouts of America, Cross Timbers Master Naturalists, Fort Worth Pollinator Ambassadors, Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club, Master Gardeners of Tarrant County, Mermaid Yoga, Native Plant Society of Texas and the Native Prairie Association of Texas!
Landscape Plan Details: txnativeplants....
How the Waystation came to be: npsot.org/wp/st...
Photos by Karen Faught Harden and Kim Conrow