An adult zebra -longwing butterfly, Florida's state butterfly. Provided
The Garden Club of Cape Coral is holding its first open house and tours in Cape Coral-Lee County Public Library on Saturday.
The event, the butterfly eggs and chrysalis exhibited, some host plants and hopefully some butterflies in mesh habitats will run on April 5 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There will also be craft for children.
The Cape Coral President Donna Schmidt's garden club said that they like to promote what the members do and turned to the team leader of the butterfly garden, Sherie Bleiler.
“Wouldn't it be nice to have an open day to spread what you do and to advertise the Garden Club,” she said. “She agreed.”
The butterfly garden has deep roots.
The friends of the Cape Coral Library, which then called the Little Acorns, called the Garden Club in 2002 to design and maintain a garden in the U -shaped area in the back of the library. Garden club members Ginny McCarthy and Paula Novander, together with some others, designed and planned the garden in 2003 and have been maintained by the group since then.
“There are about eight members in the butterfly team. They will be there to take a tour of the garden. Other members will be in the media room to give more information to people who are visiting,” said Schmidt.
The library will have books on gardening and butterflies that can look like children and adults.
“We try to promote how people can protect monarch butterflies and other butterflies that we no longer see so much,” she said.
Cape Coral-Lee County's public library is located at 921 SW 39.
Further information is available from presidential@gardenclubofcapecoral.com.