The groundbreaking for Seattle’s Magnuson Park Butterfly Garden was held on August 11. After a walking tour, people got to work readying the site for fall plantings. The next work party will be held in November.

In order to spread the message of butterfly conservation to the greater public, the Washington Butterfly Association is taking up a butterfly gardening and restoration project at Magnuson Park in Seattle. With help from the Magnuson Environmental Stewardship Alliance (MESA), the Washington Butterfly Association will take on the restoration of Magnuson Park from fields of invasive plants to a thriving park full of wildlife. MESA already has many people helping for birds and native plants, and here we enter to help the butterflies.

To volunteer for the next work party or for more information, contact David Droppers.

Directions to the site: Enter Magnuson Park on Sand Point Way at NE 65th Street. Drive until you get to the parking lot south of 65th near Lake Washington at Promontory Point. The garden site is up the hill above the demonstration gardens.

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