The Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program has inducted the Peers Store Pollinator Garden, located at 16011 Concord Hill Road near Marthasville, on the Katy Trail at Mile Marker 81.2.
Along with four more newly inducted sites, this garden joins 20 other locations in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, and Illinois recognized by the program since it launched in 2021.
With its location on the Katy Trail, this pollinator garden, a partnership between Missouri State Parks and Magnificent Missouri, provides tens of thousands of yearly visitors a look at native plants and how powerful they can be in transforming a landscape. Visitors can see a prairie reconstruction with a variety of native plants, like rattlesnake master, sideoats grama, and slender mountain mint, that support wildlife and beautify the surroundings.
“The Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence program features plantings of native plants in designed, well-maintained gardens and in other native landscape plantings in the lower Midwest,” said Carol Davit, executive director of the Missouri Prairie Foundation and its Grow Native! program. “We are pleased to showcase these outstanding native gardens to inspire greater use of native plants, which provide many benefits to wildlife and people.”
The Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence are located in a variety of settings. All are open to the public (many are free; some charge an admission fee), consist of at least 90% native plants, and are at least three years old with an established maintenance schedule. Grow Native! plans to induct additional sites as Gardens of Excellence each year. Read more about the program and explore all 25 Grow Native! Native Gardens of Excellence HERE.
(information from a Grow Native! press release.)
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