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Take a Virtual Tour of our Garden
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 […]
Walking on Broken Glass
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
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, […]
Ash Trees in Danger of Emerald Ash Borer Infestation
Ash Trees in Danger of Emerald Ash Borer Infestation The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has been discovered in St. Charles County and is the first known EAB infestation in the St. Louis region. Now that the insect is in our area, homeowners, businesses and entire communities will need to weigh the costs versus the benefits […]
2014 Neighbors Naturescaping Program Kick-Off
2014 Neighbors Naturescaping Program Kick-Off Join us on Wednesday, June 4th at 5:30 p.m. to kick-off the 2014 Neighbors Naturescaping season! Learn how the Neighbors Naturescaping program can help your community grow. Brightside staff will go through the application packet in detail and explain the judging criteria considered by the Selection Committee. Application packets will […]
Brightside Helping You Help the Monarchs
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 […]
Planting Partnerships…Powered by Peabody Energy
Planting Partnerships…Powered by Peabody Energy April showers have brought May flowers and now it’s time to plant! The threat of frost has passed and it’s finally time to beautify the public spaces of our city with Brightside St. Louis’ Blitz Blooms. Each year Brightside provides flower seedlings to neighborhood groups who register a Blitz project […]
Thank You for a Successful Give STL Day
Thank You for a Successful Give STL Day The question was “what can we do in a day” and the answer turned out to be $1,108,815.09 raised for 500+ local nonprofits, including $3,215 just for Brightside St. Louis. On May 6th St. Louisans rallied together to support the charities that make our community better, and […]