Butterfly Walk – Saturday July 17 @ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Join us next Saturday (July 17th) for a Butterfly Walk at the Prairie Garden Trust (PGT). Dr. Gabe McNett will will lead the stroll along our paths (mowed and paved) … Continued
PGT Butterfly Walk
PGT Butterfly Walk Saturday July 17 @ 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Sign up to join us for the annual PGT Butterfly Walk. Biologist Gabe McNett will lead the stroll … Continued
Monty Don’s BBC American Gardens features the PGT
The first of Monty Don’s BBC Show on American Gardens was shown today in England. Amazingly the first garden they discuss and visit is the Prairie Garden Trust (PGT). There … Continued
PGT Butterfly Walk
We saw 5 Giant Swallowtails on the PGT Butterfly Walk yesterday. They are the largest butterfly in North America. Altogether we saw 28 different kinds of butterflies with a total … Continued
BBC Film Crew at PGT
A crew of 7 from the BBC was at the Prairie Garden Trust (PGT) yesterday filming a TV show about American Gardens. The focus was on what’s unique about American … Continued
Monarch Butterfly
On the PGT Butterfly Walk last weekend we saw 10 Monarchs. All together, we identified 23 different kinds of butterflies: Black Swallowtail 7 Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 2 Giant Swallowtail 10 … Continued
56 Birds Today
The PGT Birdwalk was this morning and the weather was perfect. Lottie Bushman lead 25 people on a relaxed walk around the property. The picture shows the group trying to … Continued
Columbia Audubon Society Birdwalk
20 people came out this morning for a Columbia Audubon Society birdwalk. A lot of the migrant birds haven’t arrived yet, but we still managed to identify 52 different species … Continued
Native Bees at the PGT
Dr. Gabe McNett told me today to that he’s identified 5 different kind of bumble bees at the Prairie Garden Trust (PGT), and that he expects to find more. Gabe … Continued
Painted Lady
Only 4 kinds of butterflies were identified on the PGT Butterfly Walk this afternoon; a record low. The problem was that it was cold, cloudy and there was a drizzly … Continued