Manhattan Beach About Town
Poppys in bloom at the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden, a great habitat for butterflies. Photo by Nancy Brown
MBBG proclaims
Year of the Butterfly
The Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden has proclaimed 2019 “The Year of the Butterfly,” inspired by the recent migration of the Painted Lady butterflies, the dwindling population of the Monarch, and the tool shed under construction in the garden that features a butterfly or V-shaped roof.
During Earth Month, the garden will offer free Saturday morning classes from 10 to 11 a.m. in the garden, located at 1236 N. Peck on the west side of Polliwog Park. The classes include: April 6, Celebrate Butterflies with origami and crochet and learn the many ways they benefit our gardens; April 13, Creating Regenerative Gardens for Butterflies; April 20, Native Gardening for Butterflies (9:30 a.m. to 12 noon; April 27, Keeping Butterflies Alive & other Integrated Pest Management practices.
“Butterflies are one of nature’s most beautiful and beloved insects in the garden,” said Charlotte Marshall, president of the MBBG board. “Yet because of dwindling habitat and widespread pesticide use butterfly populations have been decimated.”