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Demonstration Garden
Sincere Thanks to World Wide Technology
Brightside St. Louis would like to extend a sincere thank you to the Finance Department employees from World Wide Technology for their recent volunteer efforts and generous donation of $5,307. This great group volunteered twice this summer with Brightside. The first group of volunteers spent a beautiful July morning pulling weeds and cleaning flower beds […]
Looking Back and Planning Ahead
So far, 2014 has been a great year at Brightside St. Louis. From hosting our first Urban Gardening Symposium to revamping the beloved Blitz program, 2014 has brought great things to Brightside and we are excited to see what the rest of the year has in store. Check out our 2014 Summer Newsletter to get […]
Take a Virtual Tour of our Garden
Lace up your virtual walking shoes and take a stroll through our newly-upgraded Demonstration Garden webpages. Thanks to the creative team at Wired Impact, you can now visit online and learn about all of our Demo Garden’s environmentally-sustainable gardening and urban-conservation practices from the comfort of your own home. Although, we think you’ll also want […]
Walking on Broken Glass
Brightside’s garden is sporting some new bling this summer. That’s right, the garden has a sparkly and colorful new accessory that is the envy of all nearby gardens. Drumroll please….it’s Filterpave, a permeable pavement pathway that winds through the garden and is made from recycled glass and crushed river rock.
St. Louis Urban Gardening Symposium
Urban gardening is simply the process of growing plants in an urban environment. However, growing plants in urban areas can present certain challenges less common in more rural or even suburban settings. In urban cities, where the population is more concentrated, things like buildings, sidewalks, streets, stormwater runoff, overhead wires, underground utilities and other urban […]
Brightside Helping You Help the Monarchs
As you can probably gauge from the giant Monarch sculpture at the entrance to our Demonstration Garden, we love butterflies, especially Monarchs. Their spectacular multi-generational migration from Mexico to Canada and back each year continues to amaze children and grown-ups alike. Sadly, the population of Monarchs has declined drastically over the years. Researchers believe the […]
Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden
The setting could not have been more perfect for Mayor Francis G. Slay to reveal a new City sustainability initiative, Milkweeds for Monarchs. On Earth Day, with Brightside’s purple coneflowers and giant Monarch gleaming in the background, Mayor Slay, along with representatives from the Missouri Botanical Garden, Saint Louis Zoo, and Missouri Department of Conservation […]
Brightside Featured on City Corner
Learn more about what Brightside St. Louis is doing to make St. Louis a cleaner, greener and better place to live. Executive Director Mary Lou Green explains on STL TV’s City Corner!