Mission statement: Bound by Beauty’s mission is to transform how we interact with nature and neighbors to create a safer, stronger, healthier, and more resilient community that will sustain us for years to come. Our motto is: Connect, Educate, Transform, Replicate. About: Bound by Beauty is a nonprofit organization that transforms how we interact with nature and with neighbors, using butterflies as the catalyst for change. BbB was created by a group of South Florida residents who are passionate about protecting nature, particularly one of its most vulnerable and beautiful creations: the butterfly. Starting garden by garden and block by block, we are weaving a strong web of connections between neighbors, and creating corridors between butterfly and wildlife gardens. Our volunteers, from Scouts to senior citizens, share our passion for preserving nature. And we’re making it all replicable, so other communities in south Florida can follow our example, weaving a stronger and larger web of healthy green space throughout the region. We are all in this together — regardless of age, gender, disability, race, sexual orientation, politics, or religion — and this planet is our only home. Please join us in our efforts to protect and preserve the beautiful nature that sustains us all!
Bound by Beauty的外部链接
9488 NE 2nd Ave
US，Florida，Miami Shores
Your donation will make a difference!
Bound by Beauty has reached 81% of its goal of raising $12,000 by midnight tonight. Donations now will be matched dollar for dollar, and the special Coffee Break hour prize will give us an additional $1,000 from the Miami Foundation, so now is the perfect time to donate. Copy and paste this link into your browser to find out more about our unique and innovative programs and to donate: Bound by Beauty | Give Miami Day Photo by Marsha Halper
Do you have room in your garden for this gorgeous Muhly grass?
Greetings from Brockway Library's wildlife garden! We are entering the season when Muhly grass puts on a show. This drought- and salt-tolerant native grass is disease-resistant, tolerates poor soils, looks great in mass plantings, and can grow in part shade, part sun, or full sun. It is an important plant for native bees and birds to use for nest building. The pink looks beautiful with a froth of yellow Coreopsis/Tickseed.
Can you think of a better medicine than a good dose of Nature?
I am honored to write a monthly column for the Miami Shores Living magazine on nature, resilience, and sustainability. It is hard to remember when this gem of a magazine didn't exist to highlight what makes our community so wonderful. Here is my latest.
If you are anywhere near Miami Shores on Saturday morning November 9, join us at Brockway Library to learn how you can transform your garden into a sanctuary filled with the beauty of birdsong and the miracle of metamorphosis. We will be giving out free native wildflower seeds that feed both birds and butterflies and that will work in most gardens, as well as cuttings of native blue porterweed from the library garden. After the presentation, we'd be happy to give a tour of the garden. Sign up here to save your spot: https://lnkd.in/eNBQb3n2
The best part of this year's fair is that we had a physical manifestation of Bound by Beauty's motto of Connect, Educate, Transform, Replicate in the form of the wildlife garden we have created outside the library.
Despite the pouring rain, we had a wonderful time at Brockway Library's Artisan Fair, talking to friends and neighbors about the importance of native plants that sustain wildlife. We gave away over 300 native wildflower seed packets, and hope they create pollinator corridors all over our community and beyond. The best part of this year's fair is that a physical manifestation of Bound by Beauty existed in the form of the wildlife garden we created outside! Many thanks to our volunteers like Susan Howell who helped spread the word and enticed such lovely visitors as Rosemary Ravinal ??to come check out the fair!
Come join us!
If you're in the neighborhood, we invite everyone to come visit us at Bound by Beauty's booth tomorrow 10-2 at Brockway Library's Artisan Fair. We will have numerous freebies on offer, including seeds and wonderful informational materials. We will also be selling our beautiful and educational Field Guides to Wild Plants that Host Butterflies and our Wildlife Sanctuary guides. If you're looking for plants to replace sod, we have Frogfruit and Cheesytoes in limited quantities. We'll also be available to answer questions about the plants in Brockway's beautiful wildlife garden. See you there!
Greetings from the Brockway Library garden in Miami Shores! Meet the wonderful three-foot tall Partridge pea/Chamaecrista fasciculata, a wildlife-friendly powerhouse that brings many benefits to the ecosystem of your garden. Partridge peas have beautiful yellow flowers that bloom from late spring through fall in full sun to part shade. The flowers feed long-tongued bees like bumblebees (if you’re lucky enough to have them in your garden!), the seeds feed seed-eating birds like painted buntings, and the leaves feed the caterpillars of no fewer than eight species of butterfly caterpillars: Ceraunus Blue, Cloudless Sulphur, Gray Hairstreak, Little Sulphur, Little Yellow, Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak, Orange-barred Sulphur, and Sleepy Orange. And if that’s not enough for one plant, the drought- and salt-tolerant Partridge pea also fixes nitrogen in your soil, creating a natural fertilizer for other plants that require more nutrients. Partridge pea is also known as “the sensitive plant” as its feathery leaves fold up when touched and at night. I’m fairly certain that both the gorgeous Cloudless Sulphur and the tiny Ceraunus Blue have laid eggs on this plant in the garden, as I’ve seen them both fluttering nearby. See if you can find the well-camouflaged Cloudless sulphur butterfly in the photo below. Here’s to more butterflies filling our world!
A beautiful answer to seemingly endless winter...
When my husband and I lived in Poland way back in the early 1980s, we fell in love with the beautiful cutouts made by women in the village of Lowicz. I was entranced by the beautiful gardens they conjured up using nothing but paper and big, clunky scissors, featuring flowers and birds and other natural elements. I think that these cutouts provided relief at a time under communist rule, when the winters were dark and cold and endless and the smell of coal filled the air, until spring returned once again with blossoming fruit trees, filling the air with hope and perfume. Humans are capable of such beauty.
Creating sanctuaries in our gardens for native flora and fauna not only helps preserve biodiversity, it brings magic and awe and wonder to our lives.
"Biodiversity is the single most precious thing on this planet" and each one of us has the power to help preserve it by creating a sanctuary in our gardens for native flora and fauna. https://lnkd.in/ehdWvimU?