Warm Springs Park
The Pollinator Garden at Warm Springs - Goatheads to Goldfinches
Along with the City of Boise and numerous partners, GEAS has established a beautiful pollinator garden at Warm Springs Park. Warm Springs Park is along the Boise Greenbelt behind the Natatorium and accesses from Marden Ln. Creation of the pollinator garden was supported by the City of Boise through a neighborhood investment grant. Read about the Park in this Golden Eagle Blog.
GEAS has adopted the park for ongoing maintenance. Volunteers visit the Garden two to four times per year to weed, prune, thin, mulch and perform other tasks necessary to maintaining healthy habitat. Check our volunteer page for upcoming opportunities.
Volunteers work at the Warm Springs Pollinator Garden throughout the year to reduce weeds and promote a healthy ecosystem. Katie Sheppa in a patch of milkweed. Photo by Danae Fails.
More Than Pollinators
So why go through all this for a garden?
From goldfinches to hummingbirds, quail to Cedar Waxwings, various toads, and countless insects, the garden’s diverse structure is paying dividends. The space is designed to not only be aesthetically beautiful to humans, but to provide a rich, safe habitat for all invertebrates, who then enhance habitat for birds and the food web.
And that payoff goes beyond the animals and insects that hang out in the park: the once tiny plantings are now so productive that they often get transplanted to other gardens. Their seeds are also collected to be used in other places.
The Garden has become a valuable seed source. Community members can gather seeds to plant in their yards to support pollinators, birds and wildlife. Photo by Danae Fails.
Sherri does fall cleanup at the Park.
Bird food at the Park.