Date: 02/02/1999

Number: 1

The Morton School has two habitat areas. One is a 700 square foot inner courtyard butterfly garden, and the other is a habitat area about 1000 square foot and it is located on the south side of the school building. The inner courtyard garden has been planted with a milkweed and herb section for butterfly caterpillars. The south garden area has larva plants and a small section of native Nebraska plants. Both gardens have butterfly bushes, coneflowers, daisies, sedum, gayfeather, hollyhocks, blue mist spirea bushes, maple trees and red bud trees. Students maintain the area and larva are raised for classroom use from the garden. The gardens are also used in butterfly tagging for the Monarch Watch program.The area has bird feeders and water for small creatures who visit. The courtyard garden is one year old and the south garden was started this spring. We grow border annuals for both areas. Last year we tagged 360 monarch butterflies, and we used the garden as a focal point for thi

Hastings, NE

Latitude: 40.6 Longitude: -98.4

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