When: Saturday, June 8, 2024, from 9 AM — 11 AM CDT
Where: Stonemeade Subdivision, Nashville, TN
Registration: At signup.com (exact location will be sent to registrants)
We will be touring member Carole Bartoo’s property that has been home to a backyard native garden since COVID hit and she read Doug Tallamy’s Nature‘s Best Hope. Carole and her spouse met native plant enthusiast and landscaper Ivan Chester (Habitat Landscapes) who installed a flagstone path, giving them the hardscape to define areas where they could plant native Tennessee species. They have so enjoyed watching their small backyard grow with many insect, bird, and animal visitors, they decided to install a small front garden, eliminating even more lawn. Most recently they replaced many of their non-native species in the front yard with natives providing about 90% native plantings on their property.
The Stonemeade butterfly garden is an HOA-approved and neighborhood-supported native pollinator garden in an area near the neighborhood pool. It was installed this spring and is already looking lovely with the help of the Cumberland River Compact, which donated many plants, and neighbors who put in the work and money to buy additional native plants yeilding over a dozen species of natives for the garden’s first year. Regular postings on the neighborhood FaceBook site draw especially young kids to come explore the idea of “habitat” as the garden grows.
Address information will be sent to registrants.
