Sat, Apr 13
|Providencia
Spring Plant Share & Garden Day
Share and adopt new plants with your neighbors, gather some seeds, come learn from a Master Gardener, or join in getting the Butterfly Sanctuary Garden ready for Spring! No RSVP required.
Time & Location
Apr 13, 2024, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Providencia, 1312 N 22nd St, Waco, TX 76707, USA
About the event
Come join your neighbors in celebrating the start of Spring!
Spring Plant Share & Garden Day
Providencia: Community Retreat Space & Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens
9am-12pm
1312 N 22nd Street
Activities include:
- Share transplants, seedlings & extra pots
- 10am - “How to Make an Olla“ (Watering Pot) w/ Mireille ("Miss Mimi") Quintero, Master Gardener - (suggested $5 donation for materials)
- Butterfly Garden Tours
- Volunteer Activities - clearing garden beds, planting Spring butterfly plants & veggies, adding compost
Interested in further supporting the Butterfly Sanctuary Gardens? Bring your transplants, or donate plant from a local nursery for the butterflies, polinators, and birds.
Butterfly Garden Spring Wishlist:
Agastashe/Hyssop
Althea (White Rose of Sharon)
Bee Balm
Black dalea
Blackfoot Daisy
Blanket Flower
Blue Fescue
Coreopsis
Coneflower - green wizard
Crazy Daisy
Dill
Echinecea - green twister
Foxtail fern
Ground Cherries
Honeysuckle - Coral, Fragrant Cloud
Lacinto Kale (blue kale)
Margolds - African and French
Passion Vine
Pentas - red/scarlett
Pineberries
Purple Basil
Fig tree
Black-eyed Susan (Ridebekia)
Native Texas Milkweed (not "tropical)
Plumbago
Russian Sage
Soceity Garlc
Scabiosa - purple
Speedwell - Purple
Tangerine Crossvine
Veronicastrum
Yapon Holly
Yarrow - yellow, coral, pink, "summer berries" mix
Zinnias - Starlight Rose, queen lime
Guara - Pink
Permanent Plant Markers (metal markers)
Hand tools for gardening - hand shovels, pruners, loppers
For montary donations, visit www.providenciawaco.com, click "Donate" and chose the Butterfly Garden fund.
Thank you!