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Demonstration Garden
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 […]
Mayor Slay Gets Dirty in Brightside’s Butterfly Garden
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, […]
Brightside Featured on City Corner
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!
St. Louis grows older; Brightside celebrates with Cakeway to the West
St. Louis grows older; Brightside celebrates with Cakeway to the West Brightside St. Louis is proud to announce our involvement in the city’s 250th birthday celebration. We were voted to participate in the Cakeway to the West, an event described as ‘one part public art exhibit, one part scavenger hunt and one part history […]
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping
20 neighborhood gardens enhanced through Neighbors Naturescaping Thanks to the generosity of the Employees Community Fund of Boeing St. Louis, Forest ReLeaf of Missouri and Peabody Energy, 20 neighborhood gardens will be enhanced through our Neighbors Naturescaping program. Parks, school grounds, neighborhood entrances, medians, street barricades, vacant lots and community gardens will be planted with 8,500 […]
Brightside St. Louis Day
Brightside St. Louis Day Yep – it exists! Moving forward, we’re proud, excited and honored to announce that June 22nd has been officially proclaimed Brightside St. Louis Day in the city of St. Louis. The proclamation was made in honor of our 30th anniversary and to commemorate the completion of the Brightside St. Louis Demonstration […]
Community Education Fair a tremendous success!
Community Education Fair a Tremendous Success! Thanks to all of the fantastic organizations that participated in this year’s community education fair in our Demonstration Garden. Thanks to them, this year’s event made for a fun, educational day in the garden. Visitors were able to learn a great deal from our area’s leading sustainability and gardening […]
Welcome Master Gardeners
Welcome Master Gardeners Brightside St. Louis is very excited to welcome three new Master Gardeners to help with our gardening projects – Joyce Borgmeyer, Jeanette St. Vrain and Veronica McGrath. The trio joins long-time Brightside St. Louis volunteers and Master Gardeners Ken Seher and Peggy Knippel in keeping St. Louis looking beautiful. Please feel free […]