Jackson Town Hall is getting a Pollinator Garden!
In 2004, in commemoration of the restoration of the Jackson Covered Bridge, the Mountain Garden Club designed the Heritage Garden Path. Members planted a lovely garden which locals and visitors have been enjoying for 20 years. Earlier this month club members were very excited to secure approval from the town to enhance the area and create a pollinator garden. The hope is to turn the garden into a magnet for pollinators and provide information regarding the need to protect them.
We redesigned the section of the path at the library entrance (picture right). A landscape plan was created, widening the planting area and featuring colorful native plants with three season blooms and winter shelter. The garden will attract a wide diversity of pollinators like the Common Bumblebee (picture above) and provide a place where visitors can learn about them and the challenges they are facing.
The garden will also include host plants, like Butterfly Milkweed, which delight humans while giving pollinators like this Monarch Butterfly a place to lay eggs, providing for future generations of pollinators.
Thank you, Town of Jackson Selectmen and Mountain Garden Club members for your enthusiastic support of this project! Digging has begun and will be completed this fall, with planting in the spring.