Sun 18 Oct 2009
Pond Renovation and Pollinator Garden Projects – Your Help Needed
Posted by Nicole under Habitat Restoration
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The pond near the Audubon Naturalist Society’s Rust Nature Sanctuary Manor House is not only excellent wildlife habitat that many of us love to visit, it is a favorite educational tool for the numerous environmental education classes that are held at the sanctuary. It is a favorite of both adult visitors and children.
Unfortunately it has sprung a leak which needs to be repaired. Additionally, there are a lot of invasive alien plants around the pond as well as some other aggressive plants that need to be removed.
On Friday, November 6, from 9 am to about lunch, the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy will help Bruce repair the leak and begin working on removing the invasive and aggressive plants. On Saturday, November 7, from 9 am to about lunch, we will concentrate on removing, or at least, reducing, the aggressive plants and invasive alien plants.
If you are interested in helping please contact Bruce McGranahan at bruce@audubonnaturalist.org or 703-669-2561.
A group of volunteers renovated the Audubon Naturalist Society’s Rust Nature Sanctuary pollinator garden to include only native plants and shrubs. Now they would like to enhance the pollinator garden by adding more host and nectar plants to an area behind the present garden. To do this they must first remove the non-native invasive wisteria which covers this area. Once that is completed they will plant pawpaw, sassafras, and spicebush as host trees and possibly a couple of other trees as well. They also plan to plant additional flowers as nectar sources as well as some native grasses.
The Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy plans to help Ann with this project on Saturday, November 7 from 9 am to noon. If you are interested please contact Ann at ahgarvey@aol.com or 540-882-4405.
