Pollinator garden planted along Blue Heron Trail

Published 10:37 am Tuesday, July 29, 2025

By Lynette Wikle
Bermuda Run Garden Club

After a couple of months of relaxing and admiring the fruits of spring planting, Bermuda Run Garden Club members have resumed their community involvement by sharing the love of plants and caring for the environment.
On July 15, several club and community members met in Kinderton to bring to fruition a long-awaited project. The pollinator committee met several times to discuss and plan the educational pollinator gardens, located along the Blue Heron Trail that runs between the Bermuda Run town center to the Kinderton neighborhood.
Many articles have appeared discussing how the lack of pollinators is detrimental to the environment and for certain plants and wildlife. One of the core goals of the garden club is to bring awareness and to educate about plants and their roll in our lives, so when discussion began about adding some color to the recently completed Blue Heron Trail, it seemed the perfect opportunity for members to make the plantings have a purpose beyond beautification.
Steve Genaway, Kinderton neighborhood, and Andrew Meadwell, Bermuda Run Town Manager, were key to help this project in the ground. Bermuda Run Garden Club also wishes to thank James Atwood, who reworked the dry areas to get the ground ready for planting, and Christy Schafer and Stacy Cornatzer.
Club members have been growing knowledge of the best plants to assist pollinators. The club has a Junior Gardener program at Ellis Middle School, and they have had programs to broaden knowledge.
With this arsenal they selected plants that thrive in full sun, and are drought tolerant and deer resistant. The plants feed all pollinator types and blooms will be found during three seasons. During the winter months the seeds will feed the birds. Plants such as Blue Star, Bee Balm, purple Coneflower and Joe Pye weed were used. Plants are clearly labeled with signs in the ground.
It is our hope that as you walk along the Blue Heron Trail you will appreciate the efforts of your neighbors in the garden club. The two gardens are located at the end of Lakeside Crossing and Pinewood Lane and at the opening of the tunnel that goes under I-40 at the split rail fences.
The semi-annual shredding event will be Sept. 20 from 9 a.m.-noon at Bermuda Run Town Hall, 120 Kinderton Blvd. Bring documents in a brown grocery bag or similar size box. Items are $5 each, cash only. Proceeds benefit Davie residents.