Milkweed and Monarch kits — food for the monarch butterfly — will be available for sale at the Green Thumb Garden Club Plant Sale in Eastland Center on May 1.
The City of Bartlesville has for several years partnered with the Bartlesville Council of Garden Clubs to promote efforts to replenish monarch populations through an initiative sponsored by the National Wildlife Federation’s Monarch Conservation Program. The program is a nationwide effort to provide habitat for the monarch butterfly, whose population has decreased by an estimated 90 percent in the U.S. and Mexico over the past 20 years due to forest fragmentation, chemicals and global warming.
“We have monarch kits and lots of individual milkweed plants,” said BCGC member Kloma Laws. “The monarch population is still low and we are in the Migration Flyway (direct path of monarch migration).”
In addition to milkweed and monarch kits, the sales will also offer several other types of plants, free saplings and beginner’s seed kits for kids. The sale be held 8:30-11:30 a.m. next to the former theater in Eastland Shopping Center, located on U.S. Highway 75.
For more information about the Mayors for Monarchs project, see NWF.org/MayorsMonarchPledge. For more information about the BCGC or the plant sale, call 918.213.5519.
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