Have you ever met a garden guest so fabulous, so world-traveling, so gorgeously dressed that they put every flower to shame? Well, allow me to introduce you to the Monarch butterfly! These fluttering beauties are more than just a pretty face! They are true globetrotters, undertaking a jaw-dropping migration of up to 3,000 miles every year. And […]
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Plant Sale Fundraisers at Bayou City Community Market
Westbury Community Garden held its first Plant Sale Fundraiser just in time for cool season planting on October 12. The sale was part of Bayou City Community Market located in the parking lot of Westbury Baptist Church, 10425 Hillcroft, near the corner of Willowbend Blvd. The market is held on the second and fourth Saturday mornings from […]
Westbury Neighborhood Bioswale Planting Project
On Friday, September 27, a group of volunteers from Westbury met the Houston Wilderness staff at an empty lot on Cartagena Street. The lot was purchased by the city after Hurricane Harvey and had already been excavated to produce a shallow ditch to drain stormwater from the street into the Willow Waterhole Bayou. Houston Wilderness […]
Westbury Pocket Prairie – What’s Blooming in April?