What a garden! I have been honored this year to upgrade the flower beds at
Deschutes Brewery's brewing facility on SW Simpson in Bend, Oregon. It had been cared for previously by Maureen Klecker, one of Bend's long time amazing gardeners and many of the plants there were planted by her. When I took on the design work to upgrade the gardens Deschutes stated they wanted to make the gardens more sustainable which sounded great to me! I took that idea and decided we could create not only a more sustainable landscape but a
Certified Wildlife Habitat at the same time!
To create Certified Wildlife Habitat garden I added old logs for habitat, a "puddling bath" for the bees and butterflies, a Mason Bee house for habitat and lots of native plants and other important plants for pollinators species as well as plants that are crucial hosts for butterflies.
Habitat Log
Pollinator Garden
Pollinating Bee on Liatris at the Deschutes Brewery garden
Puddling Bath for bees and butterflies
Relevant plants got labels indicating their purpose in the garden.
