Pavilion Garden Restoration

Volunteers from the Saint Paul Audubon Society work in the Como Park Pavilion Garden.

Photo by Karen Eckman

With a grant from St. Paul Audubon Society, Audubon volunteers are helping restore a large public space in Como Park to its former status as a native plant garden. Volunteers remove all non-native plants and then hold periodic work days to plant native plants, aided by a local landscape designer’s donated plan.

St. Paul Audubon Society members meet each month to maintain the garden by raking, weeding, watering and applying mulch. These work days provide many opportunities to talk with area residents about the importance of native plants. Work continues this spring, summer and fall and we’d welcome more hands. If you’re interested in helping out, contact the conservation committee
h3. What Are We Planting?

Native plants planted by volunteers in the Lakeside Pavilion Garden in Como Park, funded by a grant from St. Paul Audubon Society:

1. Echinacea pallida — pale purple coneflower
2. Phlox pilosa — prairie phlox
3. Liatris ligulistylis — meadow blazingstar
4. Ratibida pinnata — grayhead coneflower
5. Coreopsis palmata — prairie coreopsis
6. Andropogan gerardii — big bluestem gras
7. Bouteloua curtipendula — sideoats grama grass
8. Schizachyrium scoparium — little bluestem grass
9. Asclepias syriaca — common milkweed
10. Gaillardia grandiflora — blanketflower
11. Cornus alternifolia — pagoda dogwood
12. Allium spp. — wild onion
13. Baptisia australis — false indigo
14. Echinacea purpurea — purple coneflower
15. Asclepias tuberosa — butterfly weed
16. Juniperus communis — dwarf juniper
17. Symphoricarpus albus — common snowberry