Earth Week Wildlife Gardening with Corporate Volunteers
Wildlife Gardening at the Inner Harbor means being intentional with the many green spaces that surround the Promenade and tending to them through a conservation lens. This week, we celebrated Earth Day by Wildlife Gardening thanks to more than 80 volunteers from Morgan Stanley, BGE, and Constellation.
Wildlife Gardening at the Inner Harbor means being intentional with the many green spaces that surround the Promenade and tending to them through a conservation lens. From large-scale gardens at Rash Field Park, to tucked away Butterfly Waystations at the Van Reiner Garden, we plant these areas with native perennials to support a range of urban wildlife like - bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and caterpillars!
Not only do the roots of the plants capture, treat, and slow down polluted storm water runoff, the gardens provide food and shelter for wildlife that play an important role in our ecosystem. We install habitat features such as bat houses, turtles islands and bee and insect hotels, for these important creatures while providing hands-on learning opportunities as we build and investigate them.
This week, we celebrated Earth Day by Wildlife Gardening thanks to more than 80 volunteers from Morgan Stanley, BGE, and Constellation. We focused on sprucing up the Van Reiner Garden Pollinator Garden (next to the Science Center), the Lancaster Canal Butterfly Garden (a block-long garden between Under Armor and Whole Foods), and the Harris Creek Rain Garden (next to Professor Trash Wheel). We planted 70 native perennials, installed 3 bee hotels, distributed 45 bags of mulch, and removed more then 4000sq ft of invasive weeds! And we had fun doing it!
If you are interested in participating our Wildlife Gardening programming, reach out to Leanna@waterfrontpartnership.org
