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