OUTDOOR SPACES Library collaborations to create

community gathering places

BULVERDE/SPRING BRANCH LIBRARY 131 Bulverde Crossing

Bulverde, TX 78163

OUTDOOR SPACES Library collaborations to create

community gathering places

City of Bulverde monthly publication

Many organizations

collaborated to create our

butterfly garden

The garden club created stones with plant names

Girl scouts helped to plant and learned from Master Gardeners

All groups helped plant, Master Gardeners laid out design and mulched extensively

The Bulverde/Spring Branch Library

butterfly garden was once featured

on Central Texas Gardener

See it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC-r_OQzX6Y or on our website: www.bsblibrary.org under Get Involved - Butterfly garden

Our garden has been registered as a Monarch Waystation with Monarch Watch http://www.monarchwatch.org/waystations/ and is also registered as a Certified Butterfly Garden with the North American Butterfly Association www.naba.org

The water catchment system was made possible with a grant from our local area electric company

Eagle Scout Projects at the Library

Bryant and Brandon Wageman built steps and a pump house for our water catchment system

Eagle Scout Projects at the Library

Phillip Winston created an information kiosk for our water catchment system (left) and Daniel Sifuentes built several Leopold benches for areas around the library including our Butterfly Garden (above)

One of the volunteers,

Charlotte Trussell, is also an excellent photographer and

created a display in the library about

the butterfly garden

Geocache in library butterfly garden

A proposal in the butterfly garden

The Native Plant Society donates

books to the library each year and is

planning on labeling all the natives on our

property

Collaborate with the Guadalupe River State Park to have Young Naturalist Storytime

We also have a Wildscape maintained by the Master Naturalists in our lower parking lot space

and are adding some bat houses

How do we find a group to collaborate with?

• In Texas, contact your County Extension Office http://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/browse/program-areas/

• Nationally, start with the Master Gardener website http://www.ahs.org/gardening-resources/master-gardeners

• Local Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops