Armadillo Park Maintenance & Butterfly-cation!

The Armadillo Park Neighborhood Association’s (APNA) Armadillo Park Committee is excited to be partnering with Austin Parks Foundation (APF) and Austin Parks and Recreation (PARD) for It’s My Park Day 2016.  The residents of our community have worked very hard and have come a long way in the past few years to help make Armadillo Park the beautiful “natural preserve” type neighborhood park that it is today.

We want to take advantage of this opportunity of working with APF to perform some necessary maintenance on existing elements in our park and to help create a butterfly habitat!  Our mini-projects shall include:

• ·         Spreading mulch on those trees, small trees, and shrubs in our park that as of yet have not been mulched. Also spreading a little additional mulch in those areas of recent plantings that had lost their mulch due to the heavy rains last autumn.
• ·         Remove weeds that have sprung up inside our crushed granite footpaths. Also remove weeds that have sprung up inside the recently planted beds.
• ·         Spread and tamp wildflower seed in the designated “grow zone”.
• ·         Create a butterfly flower garden within the designated “grow zone”; this area shall be planted with a variety of native flower seedlings specifically selected to maximize the availability of blooms in different seasons. If available, Antelope Horn Milkweed seedlings will be among those selected to help promote a habitat for Monarchs.
• ·         Plant two native, butterfly-friendly bush or shrubs within the “grow zone”.