Wild Ones Members & July Garden Walks

Saturday July 20, 2012, Jim and Ruth Brueck and members of Wild Ones North Oakland Chapter, hosted a garden walk . Each member is integrating native plants to their established gardens. Due to several commitments that day, I was only able to view the Brueck land and lake shore gardens.

                                                          Enjoy Jim and Ruth's gardens,

Trish Hennig admiring the Butterfly Garden

The Brueck's live on a lake, and Jim has introduced native plants along his shoreline to help prevent erosion and to improve habitat for the insects and aquatic animals. The plants are so happy along his shoreline that they have spread to the neighbors. The agreeing neighbor is thrilled. Each property is enjoying an increase in insects, butterflies, frogs and toads and turtles. Native plants provide a win-win for everyone.


Hoary Vervain and Mountain Mint are two of the plants in Brueck's garden that I am going to introduce in mine.

Hoary Vervain

Mountain Mint

I could not resist taking pictures of the numerous insects I spotted throughout the gardens invited by all the native plants.  

The moral of the story: feed them and they will come. If you would like more information about Wild Ones North Oakland Chapter, please contact
Laura Gruzwalski at 248 535-3338 or visit the website.