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Another scary urban myth, busted! 😂🍂 If you just can’t resist raking (or using your leaf blower) instead of putting them in bags at the curb for trash pick up, how about piling the leaves under trees or in your flower beds? Leaves are The Original Mulch and if you work with them it saves $$$ (never understood why people rake up and bag leaves, then go buy mulch to spread in their flower beds🤷🏼‍♀️🤑) Sustainable Norcross Norcross Garden Club Norcross Parks, Greenspaces & Trails Norcross Discovery Garden Park

Cheers to this cool partnership! Come see what they’re serving up - beer and bee friendly plants! 💚🍻

We are so excited to announce an upcoming event for the start of Fall! We are teaming with for a Harvest Moon Festival on September 21st. Come enjoy half off a pint when you purchase any of their plants! will be performing with us 6-9 for a tribute to Neil Young!🌱🪴🪻
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College football is back! Come watch the Aflac Kickoff Game as Georgia takes on Clemson!🏈🐶🐯🍻
12-9pm
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If you have to rake or use a leaf blower, try putting the leaves in your flower beds as mulch instead of in bags by the curb? You’ll be saving lives and taking better care of nature! 💚

Fall is a GREAT TIME to plant native perennials in your pollinator garden (or to just add some natives around your mailbox, deck planters, or school garden!) Here’s a source to consider - the plants are propagated and nurtured for sale by the lady who curated the native gardens at Fernbank Museum. You can support pollinators and a local gardener/business owner = check the 💚 boxes! Sustainable Norcross Norcross Garden Club Norcross Discovery Garden Park Gwinnett Master Gardeners Gwinnett School Gardeners

Looking for a fun freebie for your kiddos to do tomorrow morning? Join us in the garden and help us count pollinators for UGA Extention - grown ups are welcome to come count, too! 💚

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Keystone Plants Maximize Small Spaces Yards are getting smaller and the conversion of natural habitat to residential communities is shrinking the availability of native plants to...

Save the date and shop til you drop! Ornamentals, natives and passalongs from local gardens…plus raffle goodies and more 🎉 Proceeds go towards scholarships for kids excited about conservation and other nature-based programming 💚 Sustainable Norcross Norcross Parks, Greenspaces & Trails City of Norcross - Government
Norcross Discovery Garden Park

Our garden club members are hard at work potting up plants for the NGC Annual Plant sale April 25-27.

This bee the WAY to get in shape this Spring! 😂💛

Get Strong and Flexible with Betterbee's All-New Exercise Program There's no better preparation for the year of beekeeping ahead than to exercise all those beekeeping muscles! Learn amazing new techniques from Coach Anne: f...

Time to shop! YAY! 💚🎶

Beech Hollow Wildflower Farm Check out our Facebook events and website calendar (www.beechhollowfarms.com) for our seasonal plant

WHOO HOO! The 💚 is growing in Norcross - this year's Bee City USA workshop series has so far hosted record of participants! In fact, our "Planting for Pollinators" workshop held last Saturday had the most attendees ever! 🥳 GA Master Gardener Shirley Bohm led a presentation identifying native perennials perfect for full sun to shade, wet sites to dry sites and everything in between. Whether you're looking for native plants to fill your entire garden, or just brighten a corner of your yard, every inch makes a difference to the bees, birds and butterflies! And to everyone else who appreciates things just a wee bit wild🌳🐝🦋🌱 Sustainable Norcross Norcross Discovery Garden Park Norcross Garden Club Norcross Parks, Greenspaces & Trails Norcross, Georgia Bee City USA Gwinnett Master Gardeners

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These are not leaves, or tree parts! 😳😳😳 Insects are pretty darn awesome if you stop to look and learn, and they play critical roles in our ecosystems. To survive though, they need us to be much better stewards of their natural habitat. Spring is a great time to begin - let’s DO THIS by returning a corner of our yards to its beautifully natural state. 💚

To kick off our series of "Planting for Pollinators", GA Master Gardener and Norcross Garden Club member Tixie Fowler explained "why" it's critical we return at least part of our yards to native habitat (pollinators+do it for the birds!) Thus motivated, participants learned to create an ecological base map of their yards, creating a canvas that they'll begin filling in with the "right plants in the right places" at our next workshop, led by GA Master Gardener and native plant diva Shirley Bohm SAVE THE NEXT WORKSHOP DATE MARCH 16, 10am - noon at Norcross City Hall! 💚🐝🎉 City of Norcross - Government Bee City USA Norcross Garden Club The Xerces Society

Young people are making it happen! 💚 The City of Norcross is working on increasing the biodiversity of its urban forest spaces, so on Feb 24, a group of high school teens I mentor are rallying their peers to help plant native trees and pull Chinese Privet at Pinnacle Park. YOU (🤩) are invited to drop in and cheer them on - we'll have work gloves handy in case you want to help, too!

Save the dates and BEE there or BEE sad!!! 💚🐝

Another beautiful reason to not take leaves - and to be grateful for nature’s treasures! 🧡🍂

With chilly weather moving in over the next few days, you might be wondering how Mourningcloak Butterflies (Nymphalis antiopa) can survive these conditions. Rest assured, Mourningcloaks are well adapted to surviving the cold. These butterflies are found across much of North America and Eurasia, even living as far north as the Arctic Circle!

Each autumn, Mourningcloak Butterflies build up fat reserves that help them survive the winter under leaf litter, loose tree bark, or logs. Helping these beautiful butterflies survive the winter is a great reason to leave leaf litter around your yard. Even in these relatively warm retreats, though, the temperature can dip below freezing in many areas. So how do the butterflies survive? Like several other insects, Mourningcloaks have natural antifreeze chemicals! Molecules of sorbitol and glycerol accumulate in their body during the fall and winter, lowering the freezing point of water in their tissues. As an extra nerdy detail, glycerol even helps keep the plasma membrane of their cells intact. Because of these adaptations, Mourningcloaks can survive temperatures as low as -29 F. 🥶 Glycerol was once used in automotive antifreeze, but I’m pretty sure these beautiful butterflies used it first.

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Can Norcross be a more "green" place to stroll, bike and play? Please take our survey https://ppd.mysocialpinpoint.com/norcross-pgt-plan - your opinion is an IMPORTANT part of planning for the future of the City's Parks, Greenspaces & Trails 💚