Niven Park Point Butterfly Garden

Rich Cimino and Janet Bodle of 60 Elizabeth Circle in Greenbrae, and Kent McDonald of The Tamalpais have been creating a 2000 square feet California native plant garden in a previously overgrown, weedy area between the Corte Madera Creek mudflats and the multi-use path that runs along the creek behind Bon Air Center and Niven Park. We have planted several hundred milkweed plants and 130 flowering pollinator plants providing a sanctuary for Monarchs and other butterflies, bees, and birds.

Already, many walkers, runners, and cyclists have stopped to admire the progress and thank us for doing this.

We now are asking for financial help as we would like to surround the garden with an attractive fence for safety. We would also like to install a more permanent pathway and design signage to ID the native plants and teach about the amazing migration of the Monarch butterfly whose population decline is concerning.

Thank you for your support!