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Neighbors Naturescaping Kick-Off meeting
Neighbors Naturescaping Kick-Off meeting WHAT: Neighbors Naturescaping Kick-Off Meeting WHEN: May 30, 2012 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Brightside St. Louis office, 4646 Shenandoah Avenue WHY: Get the application packet for the Neighbors Naturescaping greening program. Application packet also includes many Missouri Department of Conservation publications to help you learn more about plants native to Missouri. At […]
KMOV and Brightside Work Together to Remove Graffiti
KMOV and Brightside Work Together to Remove Graffiti Graffiti can range from simple written words to elaborate and extensive drawings covering walls. When graffiti is placed on a building or structure without the owner’s consent, it is vandalism. Brightside St. Louis combats this everyday with their graffiti removal program. Eradicating graffiti preserves St. Louis neighborhoods […]
Big Thanks to the Veiled Prophet Dads and Their Daughters
Big Thanks to the Veiled Prophet Dads and Their Daughters Thanks to the volunteers this weekend that helped out at Lake Louie. This weekend, the Veiled Prophet dads and their daughters rolled up their sleeves and dug in to help beautify the lake. They planted celosias, cannas, petunias and sweet potato vine, working hard from […]
Brightside St. Louis volunteers busy cleaning and greening downtown
Brightside St. Louis Volunteers Busy Cleaning and Greening Downtown It’s Friday. And as another week comes to a close, we’d like to take a break to “smell the roses” and thank the volunteers who did so much for us the past several days. We certainly didn’t get photos of everyone who helped, but the below […]
Thank you to Bausch & Lomb and their Global Day of Caring!
Thank you to Bausch & Lomb and their Global Day of Caring! Last week, a group of employees from Bausch & Lomb helped with our work around St. Louis City Hall and the Old Municipal Courts Building by trimming the Knock Out rose bushes that they actually planted several years back. This marks the seventh […]
Blooming today in the Demonstration Garden
Blooming Today in the Demonstration Garden Here are just a few of the plants that are blooming today in the Demonstration Garden! Hope your weekend is terrific! Visit GrowNative.org to learn more about any that strike your fancy. Purple Beardtongue (Penstemon cobaea) Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium)
Skinker-DeBaliviere cleans and greens during Blitz
Skinker-DeBaliviere cleans and greens during Blitz Thanks to volunteer Becky Homan for the photos and the story. Brightside’s Blitz 2012 is nearly history. But for some in the Skinker-DeBaliviere neighborhood, last Saturday’s last day of the Blitz clean-ups came with some cool surprises. Gardening gloves got dropped through the mail slots of people who donate to […]
Fido fueled Wi-Fi?!
Fido fueled Wi-Fi?! One of the stranger but more more innovative ideas we’ve seen of late. Free Wi-Fi for public spaces fueled by the amount of dog poop that is properly disposed of. Yes, you heard us correctly and we’ll even repeat it: free WiFi that is fueled by doggy doo-doo in your favorite public […]