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San Diego Botanic Garden and donor fund Parkdale Lane Elementary native pollinator garden

3024207 · April 16, 2025
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Summary

The San Diego Botanic Garden, with funding from a private donor, removed invasive ice plant and installed native species at Parkdale Lane Elementary to create year-round pollinator habitat and educational signage; staff and volunteers will provide maintenance during establishment.

The San Diego Botanic Garden has installed a native pollinator garden on a slope at Parkdale Lane Elementary School in Encinitas, the garden’s habitat restoration program manager said at the Environmental Commission meeting.

Joe DeWolf, Habitat Restoration Program Manager for the San Diego Botanic Garden, said a private donor funded the project and the garden’s three goals were to enhance pollinator habitat at the Botanic Garden, to create pollinator plantings on City property (Moonlight Beach parcel), and to transform the slope at Parkdale Lane Elementary. DeWolf said the work began…

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