It takes a village of volunteers to build a garden and it's the sum of everyone’s talents and passions that makes a garden interesting. At the Sugden Butterfly garden we have a volunteer that shares her creative talents and contributes in unexpected ways to making the garden a special place.
Gloria may not be digging in the dirt or weeding, but her contributions don’t go unnoticed by the other volunteers and the garden visitors. Gloria loves crafting and the garden is the proud recipient of some of her work.
She has painted rocks for the tic tac toe board, she painted a wooden butterfly that hangs out near the entrance sign, she & Debbie crafted a butterfly walking stine as decoration for a planting bed. For Earth Day she made Butterflies from shells as gifts for participants and volunteers.
Gloria Bates is the mother of Debbie Polen, one of the weekly gardeners at Sugden. Debbie has enthusiastically embraced the garden, butterflies and raising caterpillars. She has taken this passion home, where Gloria keeps a watchful eye on the caterpillars and enjoys the metamorphosis process.
When Debbie and Gloria are out and about they enjoy stopping at the gardens for a relaxing picnic lunch and visit.
Thank you Gloria for your creativeness, kindness and generosity!
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If you would like to volunteer with the Garden Program, we would encourage anyone with a passion for nature and willingness to learn, to contact Connie at her e-mail above, or Debra.Siciliano@colliercountyfl.gov, the volunteer coordinator for Parks, for more information.
