Friends of the Wild Flower Garden funded planting project at Eloise Butler in 2011

Friends of the Wild Flower Garden Provide Funding for planting project at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden

Project - 2011- The Friends funded the planting of 1,429 wildflowers and ferns in the east hardwood forest, uphill of Violet Way Trail. Seventeen different species were planted. 100 to 150 native canopy and understory trees were to be planted in the same area but that project was delayed until the spring of 2012. The extreme dry soil conditions in the fall along with the difficulty of manually watering so many young trees, caused the Garden staff to wait until more moist conditions were on-hand vs planting in dry conditions and not have the transplants survive the winter.
Species Planted: Bigleaf Aster Calico Aster Cinnamon Fern Columbine Early Meadow rue Elm-leaved Goldenrod Green-headed Coneflower Lady Fern Polk Milkweed Sweet Joe-Pye Weed White Rattlesnake Root White Woodland Aster Wild Blue Phlox Wild Geranium Wild Woodland Strawberry Woodland Sunflower Zigzag Goldenrod Most species listed above have a detailed information sheet. Click the plant name for it.		Below: The pathway along Violet Way where the planting occured.




Bigleaf Aster Eurybia macrophylla L.	Calico Aster Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (L.)	Cinnamon Fern Osmunda cimmamonda	Columbine Aquilegia canadensis L.

Early Meadow Rue Thalictrum dioicum L.	Elm-leaved Goldenrod Solidago ulmifolia	Green-headed Coneflower Rudbeckia laciniata L.	Lady Fern Athyrium filix-femina

Polk Milkweed Asclepias exaltata	Sweet Joe-Pye Weed Eupatorium purpureum L.	White Rattlesnake Root Prenanthes alba L.	White Woodland Aster Eurybia divaricata

Wild Blue Phlox Phlox divaricata L.	Wild Geranium Geranium maculatum L.	Wild Woodland Strawberry Fragaria vesca L.	Woodland Sunflower Helianthus divaricatus

Zigzag Goldenrod Solidago flexicaulis L.		©2012 Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, Inc. www.friendsofeloisebutler.org 020412