Fall 2023 - Week Two

September 22, 2023  •  Vol. 2

Our little community is growing at The Honeysuckle Society and we spent Week Two getting to know the individual plants in the garden—specifically the pollinator-friendly plants!

On Monday, our nature walk around the garden focused on finding the plants that the pollinators love like Anise Hyssop, Joe Pye Weed, Milkweed, and Coneflowers to name a few. Charli Rose noticed that the beloved beans we shelled last week, had already sprouted this week! We looked at some flower parts up close to see what the pollinators are working with, we whipped up some more mud shakes and also started to learn how to knit with our fingers.

On Tuesday we started collecting plants for our herbarium on our nature walk, hunted down some more pollinator-friendly plants, made our last mud shake and created some mini-butterfly gardens.

On Wednesday, we focused on using our sense of smell to find the find the pollinator-friendly plants, in addition to our eyes. We finished making our butterfly gardens and did some more fingerknitting.