Follow the link to view the Pollinator Garden Virtual Tours created by students in the Honors section of Bio 108: Plants and Society Fall 2021. This is a first attempt at the virtual tour, stay tuned for future versions as we learn to work with the software. Thank you to OpenSkill (openskillhub.org) for the opportunity to pilot the virtual tour web app, and thank you to John Kereny from IT for the beautiful panoramic photos!
If the link doesn't work, you can copy and paste this URL to your browser: https://sites.google.com/phoenixcollege.edu/phoenixcollegepollinatorgarden/virtual-tour-trial

I forgot to post an update after our October 23, 2021 planting event.
The Phoenix College community came together to plant a 70 plant donation from the Maricopa Seed Library. Thank you to everyone who came out to improve the lives of our students and community!

The new plant signs are here!! Thank you to Natalie Case at the Center for Native and Urban Wildlife at Scottsdale Community College for putting us in touch with Adriane Grimaldi from Butterfly Wonderland. Adriane made a donation of "Do not trim" signs and provided the info for the company that makes these beautiful custom garden signs. They look great! Orion Garden Markers did a great job!! Bio108 students will be helping to finish mapping the new plants and exchanging temporary markers for these beauties.

This summer, two students, Staci Ryder and Sam Lopez, are germinating some of the seeds in our native seed collection to add more plants to the garden. We have our first successful seedlings of sacred datura (Datura wrightii)! So excited for their successful trials, can't wait to get them in the ground. Hopefully we can then donate seeds back to the Maricopa Native Seed Library.

It looks like some of our new plants are already flowering and thriving in their new spots. Some of the existing milkweed plants are joining in. Photo 1: snapdragon vine, photos 2 and 3: rush milkweed, photos 4 and 5: Arizona milkweed.

More donations!
Last Wednesday March 17, 2021
We received from Danielle Carlock of the Maricopa Native Seed Library.
The donation includes:
a Chilopsis linearis arcuata - Desert Willow (this one is young, in the greenhouse until Fall).
an Asclepias asperula - Antelope horns milkweed, planted in veggie garden
Two Maurandella antirhiniflora - snapdragon vine, 1 in veggie garden and 1 by the palo verde near kiln doors in the pollinator garden.
Justicia californica - chuparrosa
Aloysia wrightii - bee brush and
Abutilon palmeri - supersition mallow.
To learn about the Maricopa Native Seed Library and see profiles of the plants check out their website: https://libguides.maricopa.edu/seed

Thank you Natalie from the Great Milkweed Grow Out at the Desert Botanical Garden for our first plant donations!
4 Arizona milkweed (Asclepias angustifolia)
4 rush milkweed (Asclepias subulata)
2 white stem milkweed (Asclepias albicans)
4 butterfly mist/Gregg’s mistflower (Ageratum corymbosum/ or Conoclinum greggii or hybrid)
6 brownfoot (Acourtia wrightii)
Hopefully we can find a time to plant in the next few weeks! Maybe a Friday afternoon? Reach out to me if you want to help out. [email protected]

How old are your aloe vera plants? I'm looking for 2 years or older fully bloomed not ripe.