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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 […]
Flowers for Downtown 2014
Flowers for Downtown 2014 Show your pride for St. Louis and participate in this effort to make our city more beautiful. This is a great 250th birthday activity! Would you like to be a part of this year’s efforts to make downtown St. Louis a more beautiful, thriving and inviting destination? On Saturday May 17th […]
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 […]
Spring Cleaning and Greening at Lake Louie
Spring Cleaning and Greening at Lake Louie The weather has finally warmed up and that means it’s time to get dirty in the garden so we can enjoy the fruits of our labor in the months to come. We love making St. Louis a cleaner and greener place for all to enjoy, but we couldn’t […]
Flora Conservancy of Forest Park Plant Sale
Flora Conservancy of Forest Park Plant Sale Our friends at the Flora Conservancy are having a plant sale on Saturday, May 10th. All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Flora Conservancy. Learn more about the Flora Conservancy 2014 Plant Sale.
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 […]
Mingle with Young Friends of Brightside at the Kickoff Garden Party
Mingle with Young Friends of Brightside at the Kickoff Garden Party St. Louis is more vibrant and younger than ever before. Makes perfect sense for our city’s young professionals to get in on the action and so we’ve founded the Young Friends of Brightside. Join us as we make our city a cleaner, greener, better […]
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 […]