Riedlville Butterfly Garden

This backyard oasis, at the intersection of urban and rural living, is planted with several varieties of milkweed, other butterfly host plants, and multiple annuals and perennials to invite all pollinating passersby. For some of us, tranquility occurs when nature and man can co-exist for each other’s benefit. The initial efforts have made MY world more beautiful. The long term benefit, even if just in a tiny part, will make THE world healthier and more beautiful…and thereby, tranquil.

Midtown Monarch Fueling Station

A variety of pollinator plants including coneflower and coreopsis provide much needed nectar for monarchs as they make their way through downtown Oklahoma City. Two garden beds are located out front of The Nature Conservancy’s office where staff maintain the gardens including weeding and reseeding. Additionally, the gardens serve as an educational touch point for a variety of people who walk by on a daily basis to the Federal Building located across the street.

Midwest City Monarch Haven

My front yard garden happened thanks to mother nature… I did not plant the flowers shown in the pic, but rather the birds and wind did. They are volunteer transplants from my backyard pollinator garden. So, I rolled with it and now have two gardens. Additionally, I removed the traditional landscape bushes in front of my house (behind these flowers) and seeded it last fall. All kinds of milkweed and other wildflowers are growing there as well!

Knox Family Butterfly Stop

3’x6’ and a 3’x3’ raised beds flanking a Flowering Dogwood tree. Three milkweeds, two lavenders, 1 asclepia, two rosemary, assorted flowering annuals, fountain grass, mystery shrub(orange, yellow,red leaves), shallow plate for muddy water, small stones

OKC Heartland Montessori School

We are being very intentional in creating a pollinator garden at school. We have plants in pots, in the ground, and are also using straw bales, with their quickly-composting interiors. The children have helped plant just about everything, and are learning about pollinators and their role in our world inside the classroom and outside. The kids spend lots of time outside have learned aremarkable amount about plant care!

I am a parent volunteer with a love for gardening. These are 3-6 year olds. In an effort to attract several species of butterflies besides just Monarchs, we’ve planted a variety of host and nectar plants. Including: Pipevine, bronze fennel, 2 types of parsley, 4 varieties of butterfly milkweed, Brazilian verbena, Pentas, dianthus, liatris, dill, white cats whiskers, pink false vervain, rue, Brazilian button, honeysuckle, cape plumbago, poppy mallow, and hearty blue passion flower. At the students’ request we also have planted other edible plants, including a peach tree, tomato plants, 3 varieties of watermelon, strawberries and fig trees, along with various complementary flowers like marigolds, snapdragons and celosia.

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Heise Home for Monarchs

The ‘Heise Home for Monarchs’ butterfly garden was a birthday project, built over the course of one month by husband and wife, David and Sabrina Heise. Featuring over 50 square feet of milkweed, perennials and wildflowers – this habitat is a home for pollinators in the backyard of ours!