Butterfly Garden Open House and Tours set for Saturday
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The Garden Club of Cape Coral will hold its first Butterfly Garden Open House and Tours at the Cape Coral-Lee County Public Library on Saturday.
The event, which will include butterfly eggs and chrysalis on display, some host plants as well as, hopefully, some butterflies in mesh habitats, will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 5. There also will be crafts for children.
Garden Club of Cape Coral President Donna Schmidt said since she likes to promote what the members are doing and approached the team lead of the Butterfly Garden, Sherie Bleiler.
"Wouldn't it be nice to have an open house to spread the word about what you are doing and promote the garden club," she said. "She agreed."
The butterfly garden has deep roots.
The Friends of the Cape Coral Library, then named the Little Acorns, approached the Garden Club to design and maintain a garden in the "U" shaped area in the back of the library, in 2002. Garden Club members Ginny McCarthy and Paula Novander, along with a few others, designed and planned the garden in 2003, and it has been maintained by the group ever since.
"There are about eight members on the butterfly team. They are going to be there to do a tour of the garden. Other members will be inside the media room to give more information to people who are visiting," Schmidt said.
The library will have books on gardening and butterflies available for children and adults to check out.
"We are trying to promote how people can protect monarch butterflies and other butterflies that we don't see as much anymore," she said.
The Cape Coral-Lee County Public Library is at 921 S.W. 39th Terrace.
For more information, email president@gardenclubofcapecoral.com.