Planting
Grant # P-003-05 “Don Eisle Park Wildflower Project”
$7,656.00
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Standing
left to right: Wilton Manors Work Crew Augustus Haynes, also a NWF
Steward.,Reginald Holley, and Joe Barrath. Kneeling: Eric Trulson
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The
staff of the Leisure Services Department for the City of Wilton Manors
completed a project, which will bring pleasure to many "wild" as well
as human visitors to Wilton Manors.
In
an effort to reduce exotic plants in the community and provide
native plants to support our environment, the staff removed
approximately 800 linear feet of the exotic Surinam cherry hedge in the
City’s Don Eisle Park located at 701 NW 29th Street.
In
its place they planted approximately one thousand various native
wildflower plants. These plants were chosen for variety and
because they attract many native birds and butterflies. Plants selected
include native passion vine, coontie, milkweed, gallardia, salvia
coccinea, beach sunflower, Chapman’s Senna, native blue porterweed,
spiderwort, muhly grass, twin flower, beach verbena, blue flag iris,
blue eyed grass, black eyed susan mimosa strigilosa and stoke's aster.
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"In a
time when conversations of "Global Warming" are heating up,
people are motivated to do what they can to enhance their environment,"
said Wayne Sheppard, Special Projects & Grants Coordinator for the
City of Wilton Manors. He continued, "It is important that cities
everywhere do what they can to improve their community and educate its
citizens and Wilton Manors is doing just that." Sheppard, who is
also a member of the city’s NatureScape Committee, says the city plans
to put up signs that will identify each of the plants. He stated, "They
will enhance the visitors experience as well as provide a source of
information to those wanting to create native habitats in their yards”"
The
$7,650 cost of these native wildflowers was covered by a grant from the
Florida Wildflower Council and Florida Wildflower Foundation, Inc.
Planting Grants # P-002-05 Wilton Manors Diggin' the
Drive II $2,342.00
Phase I of the beautification project was completed
in November 2004, when Main Street members, along with Wilton Manors
city workers, Homeowner Associations and NatureScape Committee members
did the initial planting with funds supplied from a Broward Beautiful
Grant .
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Phase II - Diggin' The
Drive II -
Adding Wildflowers to Wilton Drive Center Islands and Swales
In 2005, Main Street
President, Tom Shidaker, applied for a Wildflower grant to add colorful
flowers to the city's central roadway.
Now visitors along the
main street can stop to watch the many butterflies that visit the city.
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Both
of these projects helped Wilton Manor to become the 17th
City in the United States to be certified as a Community
Wildlife Habitat (CWH) by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
Learn
more about Wilton Manors at the city web site www.
wiltonmanors.com
Learn how your city can become a CWH at www.nwf.org
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