Our Bedrock
Mission Statement: Gardens and programs that inspire, educate and enrich our lives and our community.
Purpose Statement: To educate and encourage citizens on the importance of developing, restoring, maintaining and conserving wildlife habitat and the native plants that comprise that habitat.
Membership:
Welcome new members!! We hope to see you at our monthly classes and upcoming events.
Renewal Information:
Renewal notices (for the most part except for exceptionally large volume months in which case they are emailed) are sent out via USPS during the month in which it is due.
Note: We can now accept memberships and renewals online with this link: Membership/Renewals.
However, to help us cover our processing costs for the convenience of using online payments, it is necessary to include those costs in our online membership fees. Amounts remain the same as before for checks/cash.
Separate donations can also be transacted online!
Donations/Memorials.
Memberships/renewals help support our organization and our volunteer maintained gardens! Thanks to those who have renewed and have done so continuously and generously.
November Class
November 16th at 10:00am ~ entitled Native Mason Bees ~ conducted by Anne Bulger, Brigg Franklin and Nigel Cundy.
Our annual Mason Bee Experience with a twist–a new presentation! Even if you have attended in the past, learn something new and help us clean our many tubes from the gardens!
Mason bees are an important pollinator. Learn their life cycle; the process by which the cocoons are formed, as well as how to harvest, clean and store them. Help us clean our tubes and in exchange you will have the opportunity to obtain cocoons in the spring.
October Class–Recap
Brandon Burger of Backyard Bird Shop came to our rescue once again and presented a very informative and comprehensive class entitled ~ Bats: Our Backyard Buddies. What’s not to love about bats? As we found out, they are great! He also dispelled some myths with factual information.
Saturday Morning Work Parties
Thanks to all of the volunteers who helped maintain our beautiful gardens this year on Saturday mornings from March through October. Time for a little rest until next March 2025! Stay tuned…..
Perennial, Bulb & Seed Swap
We had a nice weather day for our swap! It’s always fun and interesting to see what plant materials come our way–many folks are so passionate about sharing! And it was impressive to see how some folks portioned out and labeled their homemade “seed packets”–very creative!
Thanks to all of the Master Gardeners and others who helped answer questions and helped organize the many seed donations! We still have remaining seeds which we will continue to share. 
Student Garden Coordinator Program
The fall session of this educational program, led by Amanda Shaffer, that paired CASEE students with adult mentors has concluded. The students and adults learned about nature themed subjects and completed related activities together in the Wildlife Botanical Gardens. From what I heard and saw we had great participation! Thanks to all who made this program work. Topics included fall and winter in the gardens, bug boxes, plant propagation techniques and lasagna gardening as the last class. At that class a lasagna bed was created and a few perennials planted.
Sharpening Event 
We’d like to thank the volunteers with Repair Clark County. They had a busy time sharpening garden tools on a rainy (but warmish) day last month–sparks were flying! Among the 34 member participants, a total of 151 various garden tools (including 31 NatureScaping tools) of all kinds were cleaned and sharpened by the three sharpeners and an assistant. It was such a popular event with many appreciative members, that we’re thinking about future possibilities. Stay tuned….
On a side note…..some folks dropped off their old metal garden objects while there for the sharpening event. Thanks goes to them and all donors who dropped off a bunch of metal garden tools and related objects at the shed for the FFG project. This is a great start but we could use more so keep it in mind as you clean out your garages. Leave your shovels, rakes, pruners, pitchforks, pick axes, post hole diggers, trowels, hedge pruners, etc. labeled as “FFG” at the door of the shed (in the center of the gardens), and they will be collected. We await the day it’s all turned into an art project in the garden!!
Bulletin Board
Fall is here and so is our display ushering in the season. Find it mounted on the front of our small shed when you come to visit. Thank you Rosemarie!
Sharing……
Flyers
Always striving to best share information, our standard flyers in display boxes at the gardens are now on our website.
Wildlife Botanical Gardens Main Flyer and Black and White MapWildlife Botanical Gardens Overhead Color Map
How to Raise and Manage Orchard Mason Bees.
Booklet
With funding from a Washington Native Plant Society (WNPS) grant and with many volunteer hours from committee members (you know who you are) a longtime dream has been fulfilled.
We have created a free 52-page booklet as an educational tool that includes dozens of high-quality photos, descriptions and other information regarding native plants found at The Wildlife Botanical Gardens and reasons to incorporate them in your landscape. Here is the link to finding it on our website:
https://naturescaping.org/resources/free-booklet/
Recent Comments:
From Google Business
*Shefeek: 5 star review & comment: “It was a pleasant experience to visit the place. The place is calm ,quiet and beautiful.”
Comment Cards
*Johanna–Excellent rating & comment: “So peaceful & beautiful!”
*Vi–Excellent rating
*Karen–Excellent rating & comment: “Beautiful! Thank you! You can tell how much hard work goes into this”.
Nature Related Quote of the Month
From John Lubbock: “Fresh air is as good for the mind as for the body. Nature always seems trying to talk to us as if she had some great secret to tell. And so she has.”
Enjoy, stay safe and keep dry!