This year, AMV began a project, in partnership with the City of Oxford’s Landscape Naturalization Master Plan in which an area of the Oxford Community Park was converted from turf grass to a pollinator garden. Audubon Miami Valley funded the plants for the 900 sq. ft. pollinator garden and AMV members helped city staff with planting and maintaining the pollinator garden. Below are pictures of the garden in bloom this summer!
The garden was a joint project between the City of Oxford and Audubon Miami Valley in spring 2023. The garden was planted in a pinwheel pattern consisting of a central circle of scarlet Bee Balm and a perimeter circle of mixed annuals – mostly dwarf Zinnias. In between these two concentric circles are clusters of spiral bands of one species interspersed with wedges of randomly placed perennials including Coneflowers and Brown-eyed Susans. See diagram below.
Key to the diagram
