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Replay: Maintaining Gardens

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating Parks and Recreation Month by sharing what Great Parks employees do to keep your parks … well, great! Today, Conservation & Parks Manager Kurt is at Glenwood Gardens sharing how to maintain plants for a gorgeous garden.

A monarch butterfly enjoys the nectar of common milkweed.

Replay: Pollinator Garden Tour

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Go on a tour of the butterfly garden at Glenwood Gardens with Highfield Discovery Garden Manger Doug and Nature Interpreter Lisa and learn more about these important plants.

Nature Timeout: Glenwood Gardens

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You’ve made it through the week! You deserve a moment to kick back and decompress. Relax with this nature timeout video.

A beaver in a lake eats leaves from a vine.

Making a Home in Highfield

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Winter is a quiet time in the Highfield Discovery Garden at Glenwood Gardens. Frogs wait patiently in the mud for warmer weather. The vegetables in the raised beds are all gone except for some hardy… Making a Home in Highfield

A Ribbeting Discovery

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Park guest Lisa spotted this hopping mad frog at Glenwood Gardens earlier this fall. It’s cool to see a not-quite-grown frog still with its tail, but this guy also has an extra leg! We asked… A Ribbeting Discovery

Bikers on Trail

A New Place to Play

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Regional Trail to Connect Two Great Parks Finding opportunities to spend time together outside can often be hard for busy families. One solution is to replace a trip traditionally taken in a car with one… A New Place to Play