Greendale Civic Garden Club

10/29/2024

UPDATE: The City of Greendale's Trick-or-Treat has been changed to Saturday, November 2nd, from 6:00 to 8:00pm due to the threat of inclement weather on October 31st.

03/31/2024

Why and How to Install a Frog Hotel in Your Garden 💥💬👇

02/11/2024

Did someone say snack time? 🪵

Are you interested in helping provide food for our animals?

Here’s how you can help:

🦴 You can click the link in our bio to visit our website and donate there.

https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/dNWUR-dA10pVc3oJBekHGw

🍎 Send us a check -
P.O. Box 202
3027 Indiana 262
Rising Sun, IN 47040

🥩 We can also take donations of meat as long as it has not been thawed, seasoned, spiced or cooked. We can accept beef, deer, pork, turkey, chicken and other game. If you would like to make a donation, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you for your support 🦫

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11/26/2023

11/18/2023

The USDA is updating an important map for gardeners and growers picking plants and flowers. The new map shows the contiguous US is about 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than the last map 11 years ago.

06/27/2023

Tropical milkw**d - the milkw**d you SHOULDN'T grow!

You may have heard that you can help save the iconic and endangered monarch butterfly by growing its only host plant, milkw**d. However, not all milkw**d species are made equal, and there’s one in particular that should never be planted outside of its native range. Tropical milkw**d (Asclepias curassavica) is native to Mexico but was introduced to the US because of its attractive red blooms and status as a monarch host plant. It quickly escaped cultivation and is now labeled as an invasive species, but the damage caused by tropical milkw**d is even deeper than that.

Have you ever seen a butterfly born with crumpled wings that never expanded? It was likely caused by a protozoan parasite. Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, or OE, is linked to multiple health and migration issues, transferring from monarch butterfly wings to milkw**d leaves. Caterpillars become infected when they emerge and eat those leaves. Luckily, when infected milkw**d plants die back, the parasite dies with it. Unlike our native milkw**d species, tropical milkw**d is often evergreen in temperate regions, meaning OE is able to survive, multiply, and infect the next generation of monarchs. In northern parts of the US, tropical milkw**d blooms extremely late into the year, confusing the monarch butterflies to breed instead of migrating south.

You can support monarchs and other pollinator species by growing the host and nectar plants native to your state and county. If you live in Virginia, toss the tropical milkw**d and opt for swamp milkw**d (A. incarnata), common milkw**d (A. syriaca), or butterfly w**d (A. tuberosa) instead!

Photo © 2016 Jee & Rani Nature Photography (License: CC BY-SA 4.0)

07/16/2022

07/10/2022

The powerful visual of deep prairie roots!!

03/26/2022

Whether you love 'em or hate 'em, dandelions provide one of the earliest food sources for bumble bees emerging in the spring. Consider leaving a few around to help these important pollinators!

Photo: Bumble bee on a dandelion courtesy of Connor Walsh/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. https://flic.kr/p/6jCoCd