Florida Canyon Adventure 1/23/14

Summary by Lillian Shallow
Photographs by Zachary Zollman

Our third Bee Group Florida Canyon Adventure was a huge success! Garden Club joined us for this spectacular event. After we convened with Ranger Weber in the designated location, we all grabbed gloves and threw seed bombs, which we had made a month prior. We also planted California Poppy seeds. That done, Ranger Weber provided excellent entertainment as well as a much needed sprinkler check. When the sprinkler was sufficiently checked and the students sufficiently wet, Ranger Weber instructed the 22 students and 2 teachers on the art of moving logs to serve as benches. After this manual labor, we removed the invasive plant St. John's Wort, which originates in Southern Africa and has yellow flower buds when in bloom. We removed so much of this invasive plant! Overall, this was a very successful Florida Canyon Adventure, which will hopefully light the pathway to many future successful trips.

These are some of the seed bombs that we used to spread native plants in Florida Canyon.

This is one end of our restoration site in Florida Canyon. Soon it will bee a pollinator garden!

As you can see, Florida Canyon is directly across the street from Roosevelt Middle School (the building in the background). The kiosk will be repainted and the interior redesigned by the RMS Bee Group.

This is St. John's Wort, the invasive plant that we removed.