The Northern Kentucky Sierra Club has completed a three-year volunteer effort to establish a pollinator and butterfly garden in Covington’s Goebel Park.
The pollinator habitat will provide an educational garden for the community.
A wide variety of nataive plants such as milkweed coneflowers, asters and blazing stars have been planted to attract all types of pollinators including the endangereed monarch butterfly, other butterflies, moths bees and hummingbirds.
The garden has been designated as a Monarch Way Station by the nationally recognized Monarch Watch program.
A public unveiling of the new Goebel Park Butterfly Garden is planned for 6:30 p.m. August 28.
For more information, contact Bill Thoeny, chairman of the Northern Kentucky Group of the Sierra Club. His email is btthoeny@gmail.com.
Support for the project has been provided by the City of Covington, Center for Great Neighborhoods, Keep Covington Beautiful, Make Goebel Great and Modern Design & Illustration.
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